My favorite free software 

My favorite free software - for pc newbies

My collection of free software that I recommend to clients and other newby's. This software has either been tried by me, or reviewed favorable on stumbleupon by an overwelming amount of people. Please tell me if they were wrong :)

Yes, I'm a nerd AND I'm a girl 

My small, easy, light weight digital camera 

Casio Exilim EX-Z75 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Anti Shake Optical Zoom (Silver)

Amazon Price: $259.29 (as of 10/13/2008)

I got this for my birthday, and I absolutely love it. I hadn't used a digital camera before, but once I found the 'easy' setting - taking great pictures went like a breeze.

Squidoo tips and stuff 

All Posters.Com the cutest affiliate program

I do love this affiliate program. allPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income. H...

Lensrank explained (really)

Well, squidoo lensrank has, by common consensus (at least) the following factors: Lens freshness. sales made through money making modules like amazon and ebay. visitor numbers. star ratings. favorites. whether you've been blessed by an angel. whethe...

Great Squidoo Groups Lensography

This lens was started because I just got tired of all the groups out there that just aren't great. So this is dedicated to groups that ARE great.

Squidcasting - how to squidcast on squidoo

Squidcasting is THE way to let people within squidoo know your new lens exists. You can use it in all kinds of ways - but how do you do it without annoying people?

Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month. Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited...

If you want to become popular on squidoo...

In some ways squidoo is like a popularity contest. I've done pretty well here with as I write more than 200 fans. So I feel qualified to write this lens about the subject.

Low votes in squidoo should be banned!

I think people should lighten up about the star ratings. Even a low star rating will boost your lensrank (a bit). So any rating is better than NO rating. Disagree? Tell me! [That said: it does anger me when a good lens that hasn't been voted on yet...

Spicing up your lenses 

Cute modules to spice up your lens

Cute modules that will help your lens stand out. Go beyond the text-module and the link-list module and use some color. These modules are built into squidoo and really make your lens look good. Some are hard to find, so I added descriptions on where...

Advanced css for squidoo - spice up your lens MORE

My lens about css for squidoo often gets the question: how do I combine the code? This lens is an answer to that question.

The Introduction Module in Squidoo

Squidoo recently changed the Introduction module. It suddenly has an inbuilt table of content and a 'discovery tool'. This lens is about the ins and outs of these new features. Squidoo gives these options on all lenses.

Google Blog Search Module

I love to make a lens better by using google blogsearch. The content changes - which makes your lens more interesting. As an added bonus you get an easy way to check out what other people are saying about a topic you are interested in. Which means y...

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

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 help me be...

Online promotion and SEO for squidoo 

Blogging Tutorial Video Showcase

This lens is a video tutorial on how to blog. That is: the best youtube videos about how to setup a blog, manage a blog and market it in the blogosphere.

SEO for squidoo - getting found in google: search engine optimization

SEO - search engine optimization - has many different facets. This lens goes over the main ones - especially how they effect making successful lenses on squidoo.

Vox - blogging made simple and (more) social

I recently found Vox through a web search. It turned up for a search term it had not business turning up for. This is always a good sign in SEO (search engine optimization). It means they are doing a few things right - otherwise they wouldn't have tu...

Blogging for newbies

This lens is a collection of tips I've found myself giving people who blog in an attempt to do squidoo promotion.

Stumbleupon lenses 

beautiful stumbleupon blogs

This page will change daily as the photo-blogs themselves change. Stumbleupon can be used to find great websites and great pictures. Stumbleupon is also a layman's blogging tool: you can just put anything on your blog that you enjoyed in other peopl...

Stumbleupon explained for lensmasters

Stumbleupon is great fun, and a tool for self-promotion, but for lensmasters there are also a few drawbacks. There are limits to the amount of self-promotion you can do.

Web Design Books 

These books represent my concerns and interest as a webdesigner. I go for looks, ease of use, usability and search engine friendly design (aka SEO).

Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

by Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Mark Urban, Bruce Lawson, Shawn Lawton Henry, Michael R. Burks, Cynthia Waddell, Christian Heilmann, Richard Rutter, Bob Regan, Patrick H. Lauke

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Amazon Price: $31.49 (as of 10/13/2008)

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

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Amazon Price: $26.40 (as of 10/13/2008)

HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)

by Elizabeth Castro

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Amazon Price: $23.09 (as of 10/13/2008)

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman

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Amazon Price: $26.39 (as of 10/13/2008)

SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible

by Jerri L. Ledford

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Amazon Price: $26.39 (as of 10/13/2008)

Fantasy and Science Fiction - what nerd doesn't love these? 

Good Fantasy Novels: The Good, The Bad and The Unreal

The best fantasy books with brief reviews. I love fantasy as a genre. It takes you into a new world where there are so many new possibilities - but also new dangers and new limitations. This lens lets you discuss Harry Potter versus Lord of the Ring...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Her famous 'Mists of Avalon' rewrote the story of King Arthur and Camelot from the female perspective. In all her literary work Marion Zimmer Bradley explored themes like: Female strength and male oppression Social structures that stifle women and s...

Me as a webdesigner - also my myspace and SEO tips 

Search Engine Optimization essentials

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies (part 1)

Meta Tags, aka Making sure people find your website in Google, Yahoo and MSN-search

Do use a unique title and description tag on all your pages on your website (here's how).

The No-follow tag: designed to help google fight spam

On how google fights spam by letting website owners tell them which links they do not trust.

Stealing your passwords through fake myspace websites...

Have you noticed weird bulletins posted by your friends lately?

Computer jokes - Microsoft Haiku's

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku
poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.

KH Net Webdesign Portfolio

Introducing the website I built lately.

Surviving online life emotionally 

How to resolve a quarrel through e-mail

When you are in an e-mail argument, it is very hard to get out of it again. This lens will tell you a few of the things to watch out for when trying to mend relationships through e-mail. I learned this lesson the hard way in a quarrel with a teacher...

Katinka Hesselink Online

Going crazy trying to keep up with myself online. So this is where you can find me online and where I keep track of my many online profiles. Feel free to add me as a friend on any of the social networks. Or check out what the deal is on the blogs or...

My squidtop blog 

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So, how do you like my nerdy lenses? 

Margo_Arrowsmith Oh, so much good information here, maybe I will skip the party later to stay home and play with it. ;=D Seriously, can't wait to get at it. Maybe one a day! 5*'s Posted August 17, 2008

RedSportNiac Nicely done and congratulation too for being included in the Giant squid group. Posted July 06, 2008

My main other lensographies - aka, my non-nerdy side 

Katinka Hesselink - my other lenses

I'm a lensmaster, webdesigner an oldest child, an eternal student, a former teacher and single. Most of you know me here on Squidoo as lensmaster 'spirituality' - but I've also got a life outside my interests in spirituality (though perhaps that's n...

Spirituality Without Dogmas: The Best Spirituality Ever

About free, undogmatic and inspiring spirituality. Videos, links, books and debate. For me dogmas just don't work. I'm a spiritual person, but I don't really like the idea of anybody telling me what I have to believe.

Spiritual Lenses - Katinka Hesselink Net: religion and spirituality

A lensography of my best spirituality lenses as well as a summary of my website. I feature information from various religious traditions like Buddhism, Sufism, Fourth Way and Theosophy. I also pay attention to various spiritual teachers, whether the...

The Ultimate Questions - religion and spirituality

These are the ultimate philosophy questions we all ask ourselves about religion and spirituality. Vote, get inspired and share. Part lensography, part hey monkeybrain lens - I hope you all enjoy.

Spiritual Teachers - my favorites and yours

These are some of the teachers - past and present - who will keep reminding us that there IS more to life. There is more to US... Spiritual teachers are the salt that gives flavor to our otherwise somewhat dry western culture. With all the focus on...

My newest lenses 

Each of these is less than a month old.