A Colorful Collection of Tips & Tricks

I have been building lenses on Squidoo for over a year now and one of my favorite modules to use is the Blackbox. It's a small module, but it can pack a punch. Until recently I assumed that most people were using the blackbox in a similar manner. Whe...

This lens is dedicated to clip art borders, page borders, frame graphics, scrapbook borders, dividers and border clip art for blogs, web pages and Squidoo lenses. Clip art borders and picture frame borders are one of the top free clip art searches o...

I like to use clip art dividers and borders to dress up my lenses. I like them so much that I've accumulated quite a collection! These dividers and borders are derived from public domain sources such as vintage publications, or I've made them...

Separating style and content is what Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is all about. You can write the content, take the pictures and then using what is called a stylesheet, you can change the look by calling up styles for paragraphs, headings, images, gi...

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Have you seen sharp looking lenses formatted with HTML borders and backgrounds and wished you could do the same? There are already plenty of EXCELLENT how-to-HTML lenses available, so I thought I'd do something a little different. There are two main...

Have you heard of CSS Backgrounds? Do you have a Squidoo lens or two? How about a website? A MySpace profile? Are you bored by all those plain old white backgrounds? Here I'm going to show you how to spice up your lenses and pages and create bea...

My HTML and CSS lens has managed to get a bit big so I decided that I need to split it up a bit. This is what this lens is all about. What I am basically going to cover is the different colors that you can use in your own lenses. I know they all work...

Welcome! You are writers, marketers, researchers and artists. Words are your medium and the web is your canvas. There's a lot to learn about building quality lenses that attract visitors, whether it be to share information or sell a product. Squidoo...

Welcome! This is the 2nd half of the WiWon School of Wonders HTML Lesson Plan. In the first session, we learned about HTML codes and colors that work with the various Squidoo themes. This time, we're going to cover Squidoo's Co-Branded lens templa...

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds. squidoo.com/basichtml and squidoo.com/advancedhtml show how to implement these colors. This lens however isn't going to show how the code is applied, but is a repository for the...

When I was little I loved to play "Candy Land". It was a fun game of make believe and all things sweet! Today, Candy Land is still the most popular Classic 1st Game for Children. Many versions of this classic children's game are available but the...

Having trouble figuring out what colors to use on your lenses and web pages? What colors go well together? How many people can actually see the colors that you see? And — most important — read the colors you've chosen? Here, I tell you a...

Blinkies/blingkis/are small, animated banners, or small, animated images, that normally includes text sayings, and are used as email signatures, in forums, or in blogs. Being a member of numerous online forums, clubs and groups, blinkies and tags he...

This lens was created for all of you Lensmasters. I know how hard you work at creating lenses, and making Squidoo a great resource for people to come and learn about so many different things. I feel I have been blessed to be part of the Squidoo C...

With Photo Effects, it has never been easier to create one of a kind images which can then be used on your holiday pages. Or use your imagination and come up with another use for them. Most of these are pretty straight-forward when it comes to creat...

This site shows photo editing tools that are fun and easy to use. Free web based photo editors, fun photo editors, photo tools like Photofunia, Picnik, FotofFlexer and more that will add bling to your photos - they are all here.  A few mention...

With all the clip art, free web graphics, and stock photography sites out there, it's easy to make your lenses and webpages look great without breaking copyright! Some people think images posted on the web are up for grabs. They aren't, any more tha...

You may have already got some free images from some of the sites I list on Free Photos To Use In Your Website or you may want to use your own photos but wouldn't you like to make your images stand out and look good by adding borders, frames, animatio...

This lens is a compendium, which is essentially a concise, yet comprehensive compilation, of some great lenses (web pages) created by Squidoo Lensmasters. This compendium of lenses will provide you a jump start to lens creation, step-by-step. It cov...

SQUIDUtils.com Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster SquidUtils is the place to find complementary utilities and tools for your Lenses on Squidoo. Here you can see all of your lenses and groups, with shortcuts to some of the most vital func...

In honor of my 75th Lens, on Squidoo, I thought I would make a Purple Star List of Lenses to showcase my work. This is a List of my Lenses that have been awarded a Purple Star by the Giant Squid Community. I have highlighted my Purple Star Lenses wit...

Dear, Squid Angels. I've been trying my best to make my lenses better and it's been a big surprise when a Squid Angel has decided to drop by and Bless one of my Lenses. These blessings have really encouraged me to try to make my lenses even better. W...