Build a Better Featured Lenses Module

Sharp-eyed visitors may have noticed something unusual about this Featured Lenses module on my Lensography:

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I'm not talking about the fact that all the icons are the same. (BOR-ing!) I'm talking about the fact that they're in order. And hey, waitaminute! Since when did the Featured Lenses module let you add more text at the bottom?

This isn't a Featured Lenses module. It's a plain old TEXT module! I got fed up with the Featured Lenses module playing iPod Shuffle with my lenses. Here's what I did.

1. Make a regular Featured Lenses module.
   
   
2. Add whatever lenses you want to the Featured Lenses module and save it. You'll be copying information from it.
   
   
3. Make a Text Module below the Featured Lenses module.
   
   
4. In the Text Module, start your "fake" Featured Lenses list as follows:
   
   <p style="font-size: 11px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 6px;">
   
   
5. Use this template for EACH lens:
   
   <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/url-of-lens" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; display: block; padding: 0px; clear: both;"><img src="url-of-lens-graphic.jpg" width="60" align="left" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 6px;">[Lens Title]</a> [3-4 line excerpt/description goes here...]
   
   
6. Fill in the orange parts of the template by copying the information from the Featured Lenses module.
   • To get the URL of the lens graphic, RIGHT-click (Cntrl-Click on Mac) on a graphic to copy its URL ("Copy Image Location" on the pop-up menu).
   • Likewise, to copy the URL of a link, right-click the link and choose "Copy Link Location" from the popup menu.
7. Repeat that template for each lens. Hit return twice after each lens so you've got one blank line between each listing.
   
   
8. If you want more than five lenses in your list, edit the Featured Lenses module you were copying from, delete the lenses it's featuring and add new ones, and repeat steps 5-6.
   
   
9. After the LAST lens in your list, add: </p>
   
   
10. When you've gotten your new listing the way you like it, delete the Featured Lenses module you were cannibalizing.