Free Squidoo Banners & Buttons

If you want to make a referral Squidoo signup link, log out of Squidoo, view one of your lenses, and right-click the "Create a Lens" button to copy your lensmaster referral code. If your visitor creates lenses that earn 15 dollars or more, you'll get $5. Don't stress too much about this, however -- I've had hundreds of referrals, and, sadly, none of them has ever earned me that referral bonus!

Or just link to your lensmaster profile or whichever lens you like.

To use the 2012 banners in the following section:
1. Choose which one you want from the gallery
2. Right-click the full-sized version of the button or banner to copy the image location.
3. On your Squidoo lens, insert that image by writing the following HTML code:

<a href="where you want the link to point to when someone clicks"><img src="URL you copied in step #2"></a>

Note: these three graphics are stored on Squidoo in a Photo Gallery Module, so you MAY hotlink them on Squidoo lenses and Squidoo-related blogs. Please don't sell them.

Please do NOT hotlink these -- pasting the URLs of these directly into your lens. They are stored directly on my own website. I have to pay for bandwidth, and I pay $5 extra if I go over my limit! Instead, download these and upload the images to your own lenses.



















Want to add your OWN words in a graphics program? Here's the blanks:

Squidoo lenses have graphics at the top of each lens, right? Well, they're stored on Squidoo. So if you know where to look, you can figure out the URLs and use them further down on the lens (please don't hotlink to them off-site).

The basic logo is pretty clever. As of 2010, the white type has a faint gray border, and the squid has a faint dark border, which helps it stand out on almost any background. With NO background at all, you get this:



<img src="http://the.squidoocdn.com/imgs/logos/logo2010.png" alt="Official Squidoo Banner Logo" >

On my Squidoo Themes and Color Codes lens, I showed how to take the header backgrounds and use them in Text Modules, Black Box modules, and other parts of a Squidoo lens. So if you use those codes for the paragraph, and put the Squidoo logo inside that paragraph as an image, you'll get something like this:

Code for this:
<p style="padding: 10px; color:white; background-color: #266806; background-image: url(http://the.squidoocdn.com/imgs/themes/new/green/header_bg.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat;"> <img src="http://the.squidoocdn.com/imgs/logos/logo2010.png">

You could slap the logo onto any background color or background image you like.

I need to make some basic, boring ones -- I get a little carried away with Photoshop sometimes. But here's a few starters. Note that beside these buttons, I have an entire lens of Squidoo Squid Graphics -- custom graphics of the Squidoo squid dressed up to represent various topics (Eduction, Money) and holidays.