Squidoo Page Themes - How To Select Theme Designs For Your Lenses
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Squidoo Themes - Pick a New Look For Your Lens!
One of the new "Workshop Tools" available on Squidoo is Squid Themes. These are page designs you can use to enhance the look of your lenses. Pick a new look for your lens! To select a theme, simply open your lensmaster workshop, click on "Themes" in the "Workshop Tools" area, put a click next to the theme you would like to use, click Apply, then publish your lens and enjoy. You can even click the theme name to see a small preview. This lens will show you each of the Themes and explore design elements.
NEW NOW you can preview themes right on your lens with the SquidUtils Toolbar
What You Will Find On This Lens
- Why Use A Theme?
- Default Page Theme
- Gone Camping Page Theme
- Purple People Eater Page Theme
- Easy Street Page Theme
- Moment of Zen Page Theme
- Paintball Page Theme
- Highlighter Page Theme
- The Professor Page Theme
- What is Your Favorite Squidoo Theme?
- More Answer Deck Resources
- Time for a little Q&A
- P.S. Still stuck?
- Try Out The Dandy ID Module
- Squidoo Founder Seth Godin - Seths Blog
- SquidooCool Blog
Why Use A Theme?
At first glance, there may not seem to be much of a difference between the new theme choices. So you might think to yourself... "Why use a theme?"The differences go beyone the frame of the lens, they reach deep into the color scheme of the text and some even have distinctive designs. So we will explore each of the themes, what kind of elements to look for, and how they might fit into a few different kinds of lenses.
For example... The "Gone Camping" theme would make an exceptional backdrop for a "Going Green" or "Sustainable Living" topic. The "Paintball" theme would be an amazing page theme for outdoor photography (the paintball design looks like mountains to me). Take a close look at the "Moment of Zen" and you see minimalism at its best; Great choice for any topic actually. Think about the audience you are speaking to and what would feel most comfortable to them.
These new themes open up an amazing opportunity to personalize our Squidoo pages. What if, for example, you assign a particular theme to each of your topic areas. Your lensography might reflect this and over time it would be easy for you to make a theme choice based on your lensography.
We will explore some examples in each of the "Page Theme" sections below. You will find ideas, color codes (to customize your html), and a few other ideas you might find helpful.
If you only remember one thing from this lens...
Remember To Have FUN
and
You Can Always Change Your Theme Choice Later.
NEW NOW you can preview themes right on your lens with the SquidUtils Toolbar
Default Page Theme
The Classic Squidoo Color Scheme
The Default Page Theme is a Classic Squidoo Design with some of the layout changed, but, still a great choice for any topic. Be sure to use this theme for Squidoo Tips or any Squidoo Community Lenses. For example: Lens Contests, Giant Squid Shout Outs, and the Squidoo TwttrList Lenses
Default Color Codes
Blue #0000FF
Orange #FF8C00
Use these codes for your text to integrate with the Default Page Theme colors.
Visit HTML Tips for Color to see a complete color guide.
Gone Camping Page Theme
As previously mentioned, The "Gone Camping" theme would make an exceptional backdrop for a "Going Green" or "Sustainable Living" topic. You might also use this theme to frame up your lenses about gardening, nature photography, or any kind of artistic topics. Note the design on the bottom of the Gone Camping Page Theme... NICE!!
Default Color CodesGreen #008000
Orange #FF8C00
Use these codes for your text to integrate with the Default Page Theme colors.
NEW NOW you can switch themes with the SquidUtils Toolbar
Purple People Eater Page Theme
Purple People Eater Color Codes
darkorchid #9932CC
Gray #808080
Use these codes for your text to integrate with the Default Page Theme colors.
Visit HTML Tips for Color to see a complete color guide.
Easy Street Page Theme
Moment of Zen Page Theme
Visit HTML Tips for Color to see a complete color guide.
Paintball Page Theme
Highlighter Page Theme
The Professor Page Theme
What is Your Favorite Squidoo Theme?
More Answer Deck Resources
These Phenomenal Lenses Will Help You Customize Your Theme Pages!
NEW NOW you can switch themes with the SquidUtils Toolbar
Visit HTML Tips for Color to see a complete color guide.
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Time for a little Q&A
Post your questions on this Squidoo Themes topic below, and I'll do my best to answer them for you here.
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- triathlontraining triathlontraining Nov 26, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
- Very nice job consolidating them all together! :)
P.S. Still stuck?
Drop by our SquidU.com forum. Ask for help, don't be stingy, be sure to smile, and we're betting someone will come to the rescue. 
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