How To Add A Custom 'Contact Me' Button To Your Squidoo Lens

The link is actually very easy. If you look at the URL for the "Contact Me" link on your Lensmaster Page, it looks something like:

http://www.squidoo.com/utility/contact_lensmaster/how-to-add-a-custom-contact-me-button-to-your-squidoo-lens

Instead of "how-to-add-a-custom-contact-me-button-to-your-squidoo-lens" yours will have the last part of the URL for your top-ranked page.

In the past, my top-ranked Lens has been:

http://www.squidoo.com/hydrogen-peroxide-mouthwash

When it was, this was my "Contact Me" link:

http://www.squidoo.com/utility/contact_lensmaster/hydrogen-peroxide-mouthwash

Just by switching the last part of your "Contact Me" URL to whichever Lens you place the link on will automatically put the title of that Lens in the "Your Subject" line of the message.

Besides encouraging more email feedback, this will help you identify which Lenses the email messages are coming from!

You might not see your own "Contact Me" link while logged in, so feel free to copy this part from right here:

http://www.squidoo.com/utility/contact_lensmaster/

If you know how to make your own button, great!

If not, the quickest thing to do if you don't already know where to find free pre-made button images, is to go to Squidoo: Buttons & Banners, and pick the one you like. The page is set up to make badges and banners with the URL of one of your Lenses embedded in it.

If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see that the Squidoo Team has generously left us a nice selection of Squidoo images for us to customize!

If you already know how to add text to images, great! If not, here's how to do it with The GIMP. The GIMP is a free tool for manipulating images, and if you don't already have a program for working with images like this, it won't cost you anything to get it and use it for this.

When you load your selected image into The GIMP, you have three floating windows (you can see that I still have my browser open to the Buttons & Banners page in the background).

The left is your toolbox, center is the image you are working on, and the right window has your work history. The right window actually has more than just the work history, but I'm not going to cover much there, except to say that if you make a mistake, you can use it to easily go back to a previous step and try again.

Your code for the button should look like this:

<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/utility/YourSquidooLens"><img src="http://www.YourSite.com/microbutton-contact-me.gif" /></a>

You'll need to host your file on your own site, or a free image hosting site.

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