The Squid Suite

A self-guided tutorial about Squidoo

Here is some free, easy and helpful information and advice
on building lenses from Giant Squid lensmaster Euryale!

How To Build Better Lenses

Here is some info for beginning lensmasters. This lens has info on essential tips for new lensmasters, shortcuts to resources, using modules, having a great lens launch and an overview of what's "going on" at Squidoo.

featured lens The Free Squidoo Guide

Everything I know about Squidoo... I learned at Squidoo!  I put this lens together to start to make better sense of all the free information I've found for how to use Squidoo and how to build better lenses.  My recommendations are based on w...

Squidoo Blogs

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Intermediate Lens Workings

For those who've mastered the basics of lens-making, learn more about Amazon modules, keeping a lens updated, detail your earnings and get info on the "min" and "max" layouts.

featured lens Squid Theory

Here are some further thoughts, a bit of "squid theory" you might say. As a follow-up to the Free Squidoo Guide, here are some things I've learned about lens building and Squidoo that weren't really written down all in one place... until now! (insert...

Other Great Squidoo Lens Resources

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Basic HTML for Squidoo

You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (they are the "live links" to other sites). Though there are als...2 points

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My Favourite CSS Tricks for Lenses

Here are some of the tricks I use on my lenses, and the code that does that...1 point

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HTML Squidoo tricks how to lens with sample codes step-by-step

HTML Squidoo tricks how to lens with sample codes & step-by-step instructions to change fonts, background colors, table of contents, modules & images.1 point

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Squidoo Dashboard Firefox Extension

The Squidoo DE will enhance Firefox to show even more information on the dashboard.0 points

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How to create symbols on your blog, Web site, or Squidoo lens with HTML numeric codes

Ever wanted the HTML code to create special symbols on your site—like a heart symbol, euro or copyright character? "What you see is what you get...0 points

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Putting Photos on Your Squidoo Lens (or website): A Tutorial for the Semi-Clueless

How often do you look at a really great Squidoo lens and wonder how they changed colors or backgrounds or put the pictures somewhere other than the up...0 points

Getting Into the Squidoo Community

Building lenses in a bubble doesn't work as well as participating in the community. This lens talks about star voting, lensrolling, picking a group to join, what it means to be banned and how to "Squidcast" for your groups.

featured lens Good Squidizenship

The official mantra for this lens, taken from Squidoo's philosophy, is The Power of Personal Recommendation. Welcome to my third lens about lens-building! Squidoo is a community site and interacting with the community is part of how you and your lense...

Squidoo News

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Going for the Squid!

If you're looking to improve your lenses and lensmastering, here are suggestions to help you refine what you're doing and help you know when it's working. Learn about Squid Angels, payout tiers, content ratings and the Discovery tool.

featured lens Squid Maven

Ready to be a Squid Maven? (I know, it's a rhetorical question... of course you are! Welcome to the 4th in my series of lenses about Squidoo and lens building. At this point, you've gotten down the basics of how things work and have explored the commu...

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The Best of Squidoo

This lens is about some of the fun stuff you might not have found yet at Squidoo. Since Squidoo was the 14th fastest-growing site on the web in 2007, you probably missed a few lenses...

featured lens The Best of Squidoo

What is the best of Squidoo? As with everything else on the site, it's pretty much decided by the community at large. So here is a guide to some of what I think is the best on Squidoo. Please come and share your opinions!

Silly Titles for some Serious Info

If you've read over any of those lenses, you've probably noticed I've got some funky lens titles. Yes, this Squid does like a good pun, so a lot of the main titles are plays on song titles or lyrics.

From The Free Squidoo Guide:

STOP IN THE NAME OF SQUID! - essential tips for new lensmasters - a play on "Stop (in the name of love)" by The Supremes

TAKE YOUR LENSES SWIMMING, TAKE THEM SWIMMING - launching a lens for "bouyancy" - This is a play on "Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling" from "Take the Skinheads Bowling" by Camper Van Beethoven

WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, SQUIDOO? - Squidoo blogs - inspired by "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" by REM

From Squid Theory:

SALE OF THE CENTURY - optimizing Amazon modules - "Sale of the Century" by Godley & Creme

A LITTLE LESS SQUID-VERSATION - how less can be more in a lens - in honor of "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley

SHARE IT FAIRLY BUT DON'T TAKE A SLICE OF MY PIE - calculate earnings more precisely - lyrics from Pink Floyd's song "Money"

MAXIMUM, MAXIMUM, POWER ON MY SIDE... BUT IT'S MIMIMUM, MINIMUM WITHOUT YOU - min vs max layouts - from "Maximum" by Kelly Family

From Good Squidizenship:

EVERYTHING IS MADE OF STARS - voting for lenses - a song title from Moby

ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN'... KEEP THOSE LENSES ROLLING! - about lensrolls - a play on lyrics from the song "Rawhide" from the tv show of the same name.

IN AN OCTOPUS'S GARDEN IN THE SHADE - about joining groups - line from "Octopus's Garden" by Ringo Starr

YOU KNOW I'M BANNED, I'M BANNED - YOU KNOW IT - comments and spam - a play on lyrics from Michael Jackson's song "Bad."

WHAT'S GOING ON? - Squidcasting for groups - a song by the same name by Marvin Gaye

From Squid Maven:

...YOU CAN DING MY LEN-EN-ENS, DING MY LENS! - the mysteries of Squid Angels - a play on lyrics from "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward

WHEN EVERYTHING IS OVERRATED - G, R and X-rated lenses - from "Overrated" by Less Than Jake

WHERE TIERS ROLL DOWN - about payout tiers - playing off a line from "Tears Roll Down" by Tears for Fears

I'M ALL OUT OF LOVE, WHAT AM I WITHOUT YOU? - losing and regaining Google traffic - from "Out of Love" by Air Supply

GIVE ME SOME TRUTH AND STOP MAKIN' ME CRY! - the new Discovery tool - from the song "Discovery" by Mike Oldfield

Squid Messages

comments, feedback and other bubblings

Tipi

I love the silly lens titles, had a good chuckle!
Great resource!

Posted September 16, 2008
jacquelinestone

OMG! The article in Squid News, "Studying for Success" is about me and my husband! It was published in our local paper last week. There was also a story on us in the Arizona Republic back in February, right after the award banquet.
(My married name is McGovern, but we are getting divorced.)
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments about the article. :)

Posted April 08, 2008

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