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How to add screen size images and video to your lens.

I've been creating Squidoo lens for the past month. It is frustrating to upload an image and find that it is restricted to a small thumbnail size. I tried contacting Squidoo help but they are too busy to respond. I don't blame them with all the lens that people are creating. I must commend the Squidoo team for a wonderful tool.  I just improved it. This technique is free and it will also work with any blogs that you create. 

Have fun adding your fabulous images! 

-Jack Lee 

My photo album

Here are the steps

Adding large screen size images to your lens.
  • Register for a free account to photobucket.com
  • Upload your desired image to photobucket. Make sure it is resized to approx. 550 pixels first. A good software to prepare the image is Google Picasa. You can edit and resize the image to your liking.
  • Copy the HTML "tag" provided by photobucket into the clipboard.
  • Paste the tag to any text area in your Squidoo lens where you want the image to appear.
  • Finished!!!

Some related links...

Links to resources.
Photobucket.com
This is the site that will host your images or videos for free.
My photo album on Webshots
Some of my works...
My guide on digital photography
I wrote a simple guide on eBay to help improve digital photography techniques.
Picasa 2.0
Free image editing software from Google.

Here is an example of what can be done -

I am adding an image using Squidoo function:

Here is the actual size from photobucket:
Which do you want to see?
This image is a digital photo of a "Passion Flower" that I took in 2005 and resized to about 550 pixels.

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Steps to adding audio to your lens

How to add audio file to your lens? Assume that you have an mp3 file which is an audio clip. And assume you already have a Photobucket account.
  1. Dowload a free software called Web audio plus 1.0 and install it on your computer.
    download site
  2. Run the Web Audio Plus software and convert the "source" mp3 file to a flash file with file extension of swf.
    After the conversion, test it by clicking on the play button.
  3. Upload this swf file to the Photobucket site (use the image option).
  4. Copy the URL code provided by photobucket and go to the BASIX site to generate the HTML code.
    BASIX site
    Paste the URL into the box and enter 200 for width and 73 for length. That is the size of the control buttons.
    Generate the code.
  5. Copy the generated HTML code and insert it to the desired location on any page in your lens.
  6. You have done it!!!

    Here is a sample song: (Tony Bennett's Shadow of your Smile)

Audio links

Since the demise of iframe on Squidoo - here is an alternative solution. Just add the URL link from Photobucket as a link. It takes an extra click but it works!!! or even better, add an image with the control buttons as the link.
Tony Bennett audio
The Shadow of your smile.

My other related lens

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Acknowledgement

I must thank MrLewisSmile (lens master) for the audio addition. I think I have improved upon his recipe and I have also found a way to do it for FREE. I'll let you decide which is the better solution. His method is here:
How to add audio to your lens

Reader Feedback

  • LewesDE Feb 17, 2012 @ 12:32 pm | delete
    I love this lens! please make more.
  • senditondown Dec 3, 2011 @ 12:43 am | delete
    Thanks for this lens. Am going to give it a try.
  • HeartBroken62 Oct 29, 2011 @ 9:54 am | delete
    Bookmarked. Some useful information here for all of us "newbies". Thank you for the helpful lens. Great job!
  • Bluemoongoddess Oct 17, 2011 @ 1:54 am | delete
    Nice, I didn't know there was a possibility of adding an audio file.
  • franstan Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:59 pm | delete
    Thank you for this information
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