John Hancock, meet the Internet. Internet, meet John Hancock. MyLiveSignature.com is a site for creating free or cheap e-signatures, to be used on blogs, message boards, emails, or wherever you’d like to stamp your digital John Hancock on the web. The free signature creation wizard is easy to follow and provides many options for personalizing your signature: choose between 120 font options, 10 sizes, 10 colors, and 10 slopes, which will angle your signature to make it more realistic. Once you are satisfied with the signature you’ve created, you can download it to your desktop. You can also generate HTML code for adding the signature to blogs, websites, or email messages, or generate BB code for adding it to online forums. You are not required to register in order to use the free service.

MyLiveSignature.com also offers more advanced signature-creation services for a minimal fee, typically in the $10-$20 range. If you purchase more than one style of signature, a discount usually applies. You can scan a copy of your actual signature to the site and their designers will create your e-signature from that, or for a little more money, they will animate the signature to make it look like you are actually hand-signing your name in real time.