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Jupiter Lighthouse through the eye of a Camera

Every year we visit Jupiter, Florida to watch the Cardinals Spring Training. When we're not at the baseball fields, my favorite site in Jupiter is the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. It is a wonderful red lighthouse that can be seen from many of the restau...

"Potential Giant Squid Challenge" Diary

Ok, so my sudden acceleration up the crazy-scale is due largely to fact that while browsing the SquidU forums this morning, I came across the Potential Giant Squid thread. And Oh, did I get excited. Not something that happens to me too often. I've be...

'70s Cereals

Remember breakfast cereals in the 1970s? How colorful they were, how crunchy? And the cartoon characters who endorsed them: vampires, robots, aliens, leprechauns, rabbits with football-shaped heads... Remember Saturday morning cartoons, and how much...

10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Squidoo

It is a long time since I was a Squidoo Newbie but I can still remember how it felt. Exciting and scary. Exciting because Squidoo gives you such a brilliant platform to create wonderful things. Scary because I really had no clue what I was doing.

No...

50 Awesome Squidoo How-To Lenses From A-Z

Here's a handy little directory of the best Squidoo How-To Lenses from A-Z.

Find out how to: Build a lens, improve your lens, add photos, use HTML, Twitter, Squidcast, sell a lens, make a lensograpy, make a profile, find out what it takes to be a Gi...

50 Ways To Use Twitter

Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool for promoting your Squidoo Lens, Blog, Business and more. So check out these cool ways to educate, inform, enlighten and amuse people. Just remember, you've only got 140 Characters so stay on your topic!

9,000-Mile Bicycle Tour

In July, 2008, I embarked on a year-long bicycle tour to celebrate my fiftieth birthday. I wanted to accomplish as many goals as possible in that one year. The backbone of the adventure was to be a 12,000-mile self-supported bicycle tour around the p...

9-1-1, What's your emergency?

Everyone has emergencies. Big ones, little ones, terrifying ones, and those that you can look back on and laugh at later. Emergencies make the news, the papers and the gossip over coffee every single day. Emergencies can result in death, in life, or...

A Guide to Groups for Lensmasters

Groups are collections of Lens, usually focused on a particular theme or interest. Groups are run by Groupmasters, to maintain and promote them.

The are a large number of Groups on Squidoo now, so deciding which ones to join can be a difficult task,...

A Squid Angel Tells it like it is

First and foremost, whoever reads this must know that I have LOVED Squidoo since I first joined. I joined to enhance and enjoy my writing skills and share things that I loved.

I have learned more from Squidoo than I have from probably every other si...

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic.

I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

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.

Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments

Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses!

This lens assumes...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Affiliate RSS Feeds for Squidoo

If you are a member of one or more affiliate programs, like Amazon, then you probably already know how put static links on your lenses. However, over time these links can become outdated or even broken, and you could be losing revenue because of this...

Allen Steele

Allen Steele is a science fiction author born  January 19, 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a staff writer for newspapers in Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, and Washington, DC. He and his wife now live in western Massachusetts.

He ha...

Aly Bain Video Showcase

Aly Bain MBE (born 15 May 1946 in Lerwick, Shetland) is a Shetland fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson. Now considered one of the finest fiddlers in the Scottish tradition, he became nationally prominent as a foun...

Amazon RSS Feeds for Your Squidoo Lens

There is a special service for Squidoo Lensmasters whom are also Amazon Associates - RSS Feeds containing products from Amazon. You can put these feeds into your lens to show books, DVD, electronics and more from specific categories.

"But Why?&qu...

America's Most Popular Populist - Jim Hightower

America's icon of the populist movement shops "green", of couse! Nearly every Saturday morning, down at the farmer's market in South Austin, a man walks by my booth, always shouting a friendly greeting. Sometimes he stops for a quick chuckle about th...

Amy Brown Fairies

The amazingly creative mind of Amy Brown has brought us an incredible new world of modern Fairies.

These are not our grandparents fairies, no these fairies are wild and sexy...playful and adventurous...vivacious and sometimes just a little naughty....

An Atheist View

Atheists are the most hated, despised, and distrusted minority in America. According to a University of Minnesota study no other group, race, or affiliation is more hated by the American people.

Some politicians, including Elizabeth Dole demonize at...

Are You a Squidoo Nobody? How to Become a Squidoo Somebody in 6 Easy Lessons

Who is this little orange guy? That's what everyone wants to know! So, why are you leaving us in the dark?

"This is my bio. I can edit it later." Well, little orange guy, later has arrived. The time is now! Come out from behind your orange anonymity...

Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?

Okay, I am sure you are all thinking, "What's the catch?" Don't worry, there isn't one. I promise. I am a stay at home mom and I will show you how Squidoo is helping me earn a monthly income while still being home to take care of my children.

What i...

ArtRage Painting - the real paint of digital art

Heard of ArtRage and wondering about it? Looking for a cheap and fun computer art program? Want to take up serious digital painting? Love the flow of traditional media but want the convenience of digital? Never even heard of ArtRage but easily seduc...

ArtRage Tutorials and Resources

The more advanced/painting orientated lens about ArtRage, painting, perspective, drawing, layers, composition, colour palettes and art!

This lens covers more advanced digital painting techniques and tutorials that are both to the ArtRage Full Editi...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

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...

Become a Fairy Godmother!

Wouldn't it be fun to be a real Fairy Godmother? While the bride has her bridesmaids to assist her, the mother-of-the-bride is often alone with her lists of things to do and final details to be managed. Be there from the very first steps for planning...

Best of Squidoo

A showcase of some top Squidoo lenses picked by Kate Phizackerley.
Occasionally I come across a lens which is so good I want to award it six stars. It's just so outstanding. So what I have decided to do is to build this lensography of the best lens o...

Best Travel Writing Showcase

Welcome. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and pull up a chair. Get comfortable. Stay awhile.

You are invited to explore the world of travel writing. Great books by writers who explore the world.

The first travel writers were explorers and adventurer...

Bitstrips - Comics Made Easy

Have you always wanted to create comic strips, but didn't feel you had the talent - or the patience - to laboriously draw them out and color them, one frame at a time?

With Bitstrips, you can do it in seconds.

Create your own characters, background...

Blue Mountain Wildlife...Rescue, Rehab, Release!

We are a Nonprofit, volunteer based organization. For over 20 years Blue Mountain Wildlife has cared for wildlife and educated people about the need for a successful co-existence. Our success for the last 2 decades is largely due to support from wild...

Bo Diddley

From his first hit in 1955 to his last breath in 2008, Bo Diddley stood at the crossroads between the Chicago blues tradition and the future of rock and roll. His songs have been covered and imitated by musicians around the world. The Bo Diddley soun...

Bookmark Widget for Lenses

If you're looking for a way to add a dynamic and interactive social bookmarking widget to your lens, you've come to the right place.

Powered by AddThis.com, this widget appears a single button that supports almost all of the social networks. Stick t...

Borders and Dividers for use on Squidoo

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...

Bournemouth - Seaside Beaches Holidays Sunshine

If someone was to mention Bournemouth to you, what would come to mind? If you live outside of the UK, probably not a lot, since Bournemouth isn't on the list of main attractions that you find in the tourist brochures, especially for visitors from...

Brown Bagging it

With the cost of gas and food rising an easy way to save is to bring your own lunch to work and send lunches to school with your kids. It will keep more money in your pocket and can be a healthier option too!

Browser Toolbar for Squidoo

This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...

Bulleted and Ordered Lists

You can easily make bulleted or numbered lists in the Text List module. Too easy!

But if you want more control and more of a say on how the information is presented you'll need to learn to use three HTML tags.

Lets say you want to display a list in...

CafePress Alternatives and Competitors - CafePress vs. the Competition

Are you looking for an alternative to Cafe Press? Cafepress vs Printfection, Cafepress vs Zazzle, or CafePress vs Spreadshirt? The most successful store owners research the competition and alternatives to make sure they select the correct service for...

Canada. Vancouver Island and the Rockies

Vancouver is a big city with an interesting history and a good range of restaurants and bars, that will keep a tourist busy for several days, but it is also in a fantastic location if you are interested in wildlife viewing. Whale watching is possible...

Chiclet - How to build small buttons for your Blog

Hey! I want one of those little blog buttons with my website name on it!  How do I make those? Where can I put them? What are they anyway?

The truth is, they are easier than they look because of some great online tools.

 These are Chiclets...

Choosing the right items for your Amazon modules

Ya gotta love Squidoo's Amazon modules. I think they are probably my favorite affiliate modules. The modules themselves are some of the nicest looking and easiest to work with on the site, and Amazon.com offers such a huge range of products that it w...

Citizen Squid Squidoo Angel - Spirituality

I was a squidangel from April till Oktober 2009. Now (starting Nov. 17th 2009) I'm a Citizen Squid: I'm the SEO mentor. This means that I regained my blessing powers. Which is great: I love finding and rewarding hidden treasures.

This lens i...

Clint Eastwood?

And today's heart too, but for different reasons.

The year was 1959 and and 11 year old Iowa girl met her first heartthrob. It happened when real cowboy show, Rawhide first aired on television. If any of you remember there were no VCS's (remember th...

Common Newbie Squidoo Mistakes

Making a Squidoo lens is easy. Making a good Squidoo lens, well, that's another story. A lot of Squidoo newbies ask veterans to critique their lenses, and most of these lenses are not nearly as good as they could be. (There are exceptions!)

Hopefull...

Comparing Cafe Press and Zazzle

Anyone who has created a Lens has heard of Cafe Press, if for no other reason than the fact that a Cafe Press Module is an integral part of Squidoo. 

Zazzle is a similar concept to Cafe Press, but with some distinct differences.  It also is...

Country Club Cats

Country club cats are those four-legged cats as in a feral cat colony that has overtaken the neighborhood where I live. For the most part, our country club cats are quite social and are relatively well-behaved -- after all what else would you expect...

Craig Ferguson

Hello, my lovelies!

I'm addicted to Craig Ferguson.

Remember him? Mr. Wick, the sleazy boss from The Drew Carey Show?

"He is best known in the U.S. for his role on The Drew Carey Show, where he played Nigel Wick, Drew Carey's boss.

Of his over-the...

Crazy Funny Songs

Ok. I admit it! I love all kinds of music - from classical to country! But one of my favorite kinds of music is crazy, funny, off-the-wall songs!



Sometimes I get one of these nutsy tunes running through my head and I seem to sing it all day long!


...

Create a Kinder World

Compliments. It is a simple word and a simple concept, but one that many people have trouble with. They find it difficult to give a compliment and even harder to accept one.

Compliments are powerful relationship building tools and that in of itself i...

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...

Dave Barry--Novelist, Humorist

You Want to Laugh Yourself Silly?  You Want a Belly Laugh? Dave's Novels and Essays Will Do That!

Whether it's the tourists swarming in Florida, or a new study by NASA, or some inane comment by one of our politicians, Dave will latch onto it like...

de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber

One of the most famous aircraft of all time, the Mosquito was called the "Wooden Wonder", as it was entirely wood airframe. At the time of its development it was faster than the contemporary fighter planes, and so a fighter variant was developed.

It...

Deb Jackson Designs Fairy Magic in Miniature

These handmade, unique items are truly special and seller Deb jackson has built up quite a following for her beautiful, tiny works of art. Thy are highly collectable and I am lucky enough to own a few.



Debra creates for all scales of dollhouse mini...

Diary of a Squid Angel (2009)

Dozens of hard-working Squid Angels are looking for the best of the best on Squidoo. The program has evolved a bit since I last took part, and Squid Angels are now entrusted with three Squidoo categories. Here are the ones I'm assigned to: H...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

What is reality? Is my reality your reality?

What does it mean to be human? Where, if anywhere, do we draw a line between the value of real and artificial life? In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, author Philip K Dick asks what qualities, if any...

Douglas Adams

While I can remember a time when I didn't like Douglas Adams' writings -- that time was before I read one word of his writings.  Douglas Adams has held me enthralled from the first chapter and I have read (and, indeed own) everything by him that...

Drifter's Tales

Out from under the murky sludge of his past and into the light of the living, the creature crawls. Using the powers of the Ancients, he smites indifference and the wanton abuse of the human nature that drives some to just slide by.

This is Drifter's...

E. E. "Doc" Smith

One of the original "space cowboys" of the 1930's & 1940's* E. E. Doc Smith started his career not with the Lensman books that later became so famous, but with a sort of space opera, The Skylark of Space.

 

"E. E. "Do...

Exponentially Increase Your Squidoo Traffic and Reputation Through Other Article Writing Sites

All of us as lensmasters are looking for ways to increase our Squidoo traffic. One way that we can increase our traffic to our Squidoo lenses, home websites, and blogs is to write articles about our Squidoo topics on other article writing sites. Whil...

FaerieCon is over but the magic goes on!

Yes, it's true!  All the reviews are in & FAERIECON was a Success!  Everyone who was there will share the energy was electric, the music was fantastic and a great time was had by ALL.  There were over 8,000 in attendance over...

Fairy, Pixie & Nymph Costumes

I've searched the web for the best fairy, pixie, and nymph costumes, from Tinkerbell and her Disney Fairy Friends, to woodland creatures of all sorts. You'll find costumes for little girls and woman of all ages and sizes.

Whether your style is swee...

FAQ: Add Code to your Lens

Since Squidoo has gotten bigger and our users have gotten savvier, many lensmasters have question about adding codes to their lenses. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions about adding code to lenses.

If you were directed here by Tis...

Five Steps To Happy Hummers

Here you'll find proven methods for attracting and caring for hummers. Beginner to advanced enthusiasts will find valuable information and helpful tips galore. My hope is that this knowledge will provide a more enjoyable experience for you and the bi...

Fortuna's Iron(y)

...when you have once put your neck beneath the yoke of Fortune, you must with steadfast heart bear whatever comes to pass within her realm... Ah! dull-witted mortal, if Fortune begin to stay still, she is no longer Fortune.

» Dr. Whateveryour...

FREE Photoshop and other online photo editors

Want to make your Squidoo Lenses POP? Don't want to pay the bucks to download photoshop or another photo editor to your computer?

No problem. There are now SEVERAL quality free online photo editors. INCLUDING PHOTOSHOP! That is right. Photoshop now...

Funny Humorous Letters

"It is the dog mess that I find hard to swallow." Yuk. Sorry about that!

I was a manager for a finance company for quite a few years and remember the many unintentionally funny letters we sometimes received. Unfortunately I didn't keep copies of th...

Genius Ideas!

There's a fine line between genius and insanity.

On the other hand, there's a really, really thick wall between genius and stupidity.

But every once in a while, the stupid ideas get hold of a chisel, chip a hole in the wall, and tunnel through to t...

Ghost Pictures

Here are some spooky ghost pictures and video which should help set the mood for Halloween. Some of the ghosts all scary, and others sad. Have you ever had a run in with any denizens of the spectral realm?

Giant Squid Mentor

It's true. Squidoo is a great place to create web pages for free. But did you know that part of the magic of Squidoo also comes from the membership?

Since Squidoo started in the fall of 2006, our lensmasters have continued to create great lenses and...

Gifts for Chicken Lovers and Collectors

Are you a chicken collector? Do you or someone you know have chicken stuff all over the house? Whether you are a beginning collector or a more "advanced" chicken lover, you'll find all kinds of quirky chicken gifts and funky chicken facts here on thi...

GIMP FREE Photo Editing Software

GIMP is a free photo-editing tool similar to Adobe Photoshop, which can be used for anything from simple red-eye reduction, cropping and image size or file format changing to full professional photo retouching. GIMP was originally written for Linux,...

Glenn Close?

One of the first movies I saw her in was The Natural. It was a small part, Robert Redford had dumped her years before when a baseball groupie lead him astray. But there he was making his comeback, and there she was in the audience standing, after all...

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...

Grace Slick Video Gallery

As a powerful solo artist and lead singer for the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, Grace Slick helped blaze the trail for female artists in the largely male-dominated world of rock and roll music. Along with her friend Jan...

Great celtic punk rock bands- and where to find them.

Like celtic music?  Like punk music?  Have you tried celtic punk?  Also known as paddypunk and kiltrock, celtic punk rock combines the best of both worlds.  Thrash worthy tunes with traditional Irish lyrics or bagpipes as bac...

GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any sort of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers:

• Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing (and Effective) Lens


• Part...

Groundhog Day Holiday

H
ere you will find the history of Groundhog Day and the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, facts about Groundhogs, pictures of Groundhogs, and even a gourmet recipe for Groundhog. You will also find Groundhog Day cards, ties, groundhog t-shirts, cuddly gr...

Guestbooks and You

Guestbooks are great tools for your lens. They let you get great feedback from readers, ask questions, run conversations, ask for help, collect links, and any other fun thing you'd like them to do.

If you're looking for some help managing the settin...

Guinness Recipes - traditional food for the family.

There's nothing better on a cold winter's day than sitting back with a bowl of hearty stew in front of a hot fire. Traditional food recipes such as beef stew have been handed down from generation to generation and still form the core of healthy and h...

Halloween Songs

There is music for every holiday---and Halloween songs are no exception! Fall is a great time of year to spend some time learning new songs with your children! Sing on the way to school, activities, shopping. They may know more of these than you thin...

Have You Been Blessed By Squid Angel Chef Keem?

This is your "Wall of Fame", dear fellow Squidoo lensmasters - if you've been blessed by Squid Angel Chef Keem! Please add one or more links of your blessed lenses in the plexo on this page. I'll update the "Featured Lenses" on a...

Hey, Ma! I'm a Giant Squid!

We value our family and friends, right? They've tolerated our rants and ravings, our quirks and squabbles, our phases and foibles, and yet...they love us anyway.

But watch their eyes glaze over when you try to explain that you've earned Giant Squid...

History of Squidoo Lens of the Day

The Best of the Best Lenses

So much great content, so little time to search them all. You can see the Top 100 sorted by lens rank and by category. But I thought if you had a specific interest it would be helpful to see the Squidoo Lens of the Day so...

How do I add symbols and special character to my lenses?

Do you ever want to include odd characters in your lenses but don't know how? Or want to show HTML markups in a tutorial lens? This lens shows you how to do that and includes lists of the most useful characters.

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens

Have you wished you could add one of those cool carousel widgets on your lens? Or a contextual product cloud? How about a big preview of your Amazon aStore?

Well, now you can. With a little (actually BIG!) help of Clearspring, the widget network, an...

How to Align Pictures on Webpages

Want to align an image on a web page? Need side-by-side graphics and text? Are you trying to align an image left, right or center? Or do you need to know how to position a caption under an image?

This Image Tutorial Covers:

• How to Make an Image a C...

How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery

Welcome to "How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery".


Here's how you can create a perfect Lens for your Zazzle Gallery with the new Zazzle Gallery Lens Builder!

How To Create A Quality Lens

The word "quality" has come up a lot lately on Squidoo, particularly when it comes to the Giant Squid Program. In order to be accepted you need 50 quality lenses, but what constitutes a "quality" lens? Here's what I think defines quality and how you...

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

Ever wanted some HTML code to create special symbols on your site—like a heart symbol, euro or copyright character? "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG, pronounced "wizzywig") interfaces like Squidoo's are great, but som...

How to do Keyword Research for squidoo

It is an under statement to say that keywords are important for getting your squidoo lenses (or any webpage really) found in google or another search engine.

If you are going to be making a lens to make money, you had better find out two things:

• wh...

How To Dress Like Jimi Hendrix

How to pull off the 'cool' of Jimi Hendrix without going over the top (as much as that's possible). This is Rockstar Fashion 101 - the guide to rocking like Hendrix without even touching a guitar.

How to Legally Add Copyrighted Pictures to Squidoo Lenses

Learn how to legally use famous, copyrighted pictures and art on websites and Squidoo Lenses! No more worries about searching for royalty free photos to make your lenses look top notch. Whether you're looking for nature photos, celebrities, movi...

How to Make Keyboard Symbols Using the "Alt" Key

When you need to make symbols and letters that aren't on your computer keyboard - such as © for Copyright or the Trademark, cents, Euro, or one-half symbols - or a real bullet instead of an asterisk - here's a handy tutorial to book...

How to Manage Files Using Filezilla - A Beginner's Guide

This tutorial was written with new webmasters in mind. Getting files up and down to your server or computer can be daunting at first. In this tutorial, I'm hoping to give you the basics and make it easy for you to get to grips with your new ftp clien...

How to Monetize Your Website or Blog

The Internet today provides so many opportunities for ordinary people like you and me to make money from websites and blogs. These opportunities range from contextual advertising to affiliate marketing.

How To Promote Your Squidoo Lens

Now that you have a lens, you want to let people know about it. Getting people to read your lens is harder than writing it! But there are many ways to promote your lens, make it more popular in search engines, and make it a success.

In this lens I'l...

How to Run a Successful CafePress Shop (and make lots of money!)

CafePress is THE online place to become your very own entrepreneur quickly and easily.  All you need is a computer, Internet connection, and a graphics program, and you are on your way to making major money! 

Get all the CafePress goodness...

How To Succeed With Squidoo

As those who know me already will know I love Squidoo!  It offers great opportunities for everyone and as Seth Godin's eBook says "Everyone's an Expert" at something!

The aim of How To Succeed With Squidoo is to help you demonstrate you...

How to Use the Polaroid Module

The Polaroid Module allows lensmasters to quickly upload a single picture to create a Polaroid-like image within the lens, a photo with a white border.

The benefit of the Polaroid Module is that you can upload a large image easily without needing to...

How-(Not)-to-write-a-sales-page

How I Made 8 Million Dollars In 6 Days Without Even Trying!!

We've all seen them, the ubiquitous sales pages littered all over the internet like fungus. Affiliate marketers are everywhere and everything is for sale. In this 'How Not to Write a Sales...

Howdy Doody

The Howdy Doody Show aired on NBC from 1947 to 1960 for a total run of 2,343 episodes! Howdy was one of the very first children's programs and as such it inspired the creation of many other TV programs geared toward the entertainment and education of...

HTML and CSS

HTML and CSS work closely together. Let me tell you one thing about myself. I've been playing with HTML since 98, but the past few years, i've been using it even more and most of what I have learned, I've learned on my own. I even know css which is a...

HTML And CSS Mentor

Many of you start writing your lenses without any HTML and CSS, but as you start understanding Squidoo, you want to learn how to spice your lenses up. HTML and CSS is just the ticket that you may be looking for.

Here, on this lens, you will learn fr...

HTML Tips for Color

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...

I Love My Cats!

When I first met my husband, he was a dog lover all the way. I mean, he hated cats...but when our first kitty showed up at our front door, he couldn't resist. From that point on, we have both been smitten with our kittens.

What started with the one...

I've been a Pratie Head for many's the long year... (Celtic Music)

I'd been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing Balkan music with the acappella women's ensemble Laduvane,and singing American folksongs in a band called "Rank Strangers." In 1981 I married and my husband moved us to Chapel Hill, NC. This lens i...

I've Been Blessed by a Squid Angel! (or hoping to be)

Have you been blessed by a Squid Angel? Or are you wishing for an angel blessing?

Are you wondering what the blessing actually DOES?

This is the right place to be! I'll try to unveil the mystery of the Angels program.

My time as an angel is over....

iMacros for Squidoo Lensmasters

Does this sound familiar? Bring up browser, bring up Squidoo, log in, bring up SquidU, log in, bring up Squoogle, log in....user name incorrect, remember right user name, log in again...

If so, read on. I hope this tool will save you some time. (Tim...

Improve SEO on Your Squidoo Lens

Do you need to improve SEO on your Squidoo lens? SEO = Search Engine Optimization. Basically, by improving the SEO of your lens, you are helping the spiders that crawl website, classify your lens properly. It helps the people that you want to see you...

Irish Flute

Welcome to my page about the Irish Flute.  I have been learning to play the irish flute for a few years now, and it has become my preferred musical instrument.  There are many resources online that relate to the Irish Flute....

Irish wedding music

There are two really great styles of Irish music for weddings: the tunes originally written for harp by Turlough Carolan, and similar slow, sweet, grand, introspective melodies make for the best prelude and ceremony music...

... and the rip-roaring j...

Is There Such a Thing As Time?

I wonder how much time you and I have got left. What will be your lifespan?

What do you reckon? One year, ten years, one hundred years? Who knows. One thing is for certain though: our period here on earth is limited.

So what is this stuff we call t...

Janis Joplin

Everything about the legendary rock singer Janis Joplin! Once she drags you into her music, lyrics and especially her voice, she'll never let you go!

 

 

 

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is a British writer known for his five novels about Thursday Next, literary detective, and the Nursery Crimes series.

Thursday Next lives in an alternate England circa 1985. It's a world where airships rule the skies, extinct animals hav...

KAB Lensography

Anyone trying to explain who they are will only succeed in describing who they think they are or who they wish they are. Therefore, if you want to know me, look at what I am interested in enough to make a lens about. I do ask that you do not judge me...

Katinka's Squidoo Answer Deck

Learn how to get your lens found in google, how to make your lenses look good, how lensrank is calculated and more.

I felt it was time to put all my lenses helping lensmasters be more effective together in a lensography. I've put this off for a long...

Kit Cat Clock - 2,365,200,000 tail wags and still counting

The Kit Cat Clock started in the Great Depression, and after 75 years, it's still going strong. It's been made since 1932 by the California Clock Company, although according to a website detailing the history of the clock, it started out in Portland,...

Kootenay Lake, British Columbia

One of our dreams has always been to take a trip into Canada. Well we finally made our trip on a three day weekend the last weekend in September 2008, and it was incredible.



We went into Canada from Idaho, after driving the some pretty gorgeous cou...

Lens Promotion and Traffic Generating Strategies

One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?"

The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves it...

Lens typography: Beyond bold and italic

We all know bold. We all know italic.

Most of us can probably even use both at once. *

But how can we use other font effects within the body of our favorite modules (Text/Write and others) to emphasize and enhance our message?

Read on to discover the b...

Lens Workshop Addon for Firefox

This addon for Firefox incorporates extra features into the Lens Workshop and a few other pages on Squidoo. The most significant improvements are: Lensrank updates, colored tags, detailed stats, integrated ping and improved support for Groups. See t...

Lensrank explained (really)

Well, squidoo lensrank has, by common consensus (at least) the following factors:

1. Lens freshness.


2. sales made through money making modules like amazon and ebay.


3. visitor numbers.


4. star ratings.


5. favorites.


6. whether you've been blessed by an angel.


7. whethe...

Life As A Lefty

FACT: There are over 30 million left handed people in the United States alone.

FACT: No se zurdo literally translates as "Don't be left-handed" in Spanish, but in slang it's "Don't be stupid."

FACT: A study published...

Little known facts about The Netherlands

Learn about working women in The Netherlands, our royalty, or relationship with water, some history and a lot more. Like: isn't your country called 'Holland'? Well sort of, I'll explain below... Isn't half the country below sea l...

Locked?!

Squidoo is a place for passionate people to make single pages, for free, to share expertise, personal opinion, recommendations and links to the best stuff online.

It's a place for handgathered, unique, useful, recommended, genuine content. Written b...

Loreena McKennitt, a musical traveler.

Loreena has been following the Celts in their many, many wanderings for years. She began with Ireland and its rich heritage, but moved on much, much further. She found out about Galicia, in Spain, where the Celts also dwelt long ago. In Spain you fin...

Love This Lens Widget

One of the (many) secrets of getting a good Lensrank is the star ratings that other Lensmasters can give to your lens. Getting them to actually visit your lens is hard enough, yet sometimes they leave without clicking on the stars at the top.

This w...

Maggie's Music

"A Gathering place for much Celtic-rooted & inspired acoustic music in the USA."
Fiona Ritchie, Thistle & Shamrock (NPR)

For more than 25 years, Maggie's Music has been bringing beautiful and lively acoustic music to lovers of Celtic and contemporar...

Maggie's Music: Al Petteway & Amy White

Al Petteway & Amy White perform an exciting blend of contemporary, Celtic-influenced, original and traditional instrumental music on acoustic guitars, mandolin, piano, Irish bouzouki, vocals and world percussion. Their signature sound is often heard...

Maggie's Music: Bonnie Rideout

One of the finest and most fiery Scottish fiddlers of our time, Bonnie Rideout brings to her performances the evocative music of the Highlands.

On stages from Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival to America's Kennedy Center, Bonnie's unique s...

Maggie's Music: Celtic Collections

• Celtic Tapestry is a two-CD set from Time-Life Records co-produced by Maggie Sansone featuring a total of 32 tracks from artists on the Maggie's Music label.


• Carolan's Gift presents the music of Irish harper and composer Turlogh O'Carolan.


• Celtic Mis...

Maggie's Music: Ceoltoiri

Irish Band Ceoltoiri (pronounced kyul-tory) makes music that breaks through traditional boundaries. With its trademark arrangements and chamber folk arrangement style of intricate harmonies and variations, the group creates haunting ballads and drivi...

Maggie's Music: Christmas

Maggie's Music serves up seven delightful CDs and a DVD for your seasonal listening pleasure. Performers from the label include Al Petteway and Amy White, Ensemble Galilei, Maggie Sansone, Sue Richards and Bonnie Rideout. They are joined on their off...

Maggie's Music: City of Washington Pipe Band

The City of Washington Pipe Band has been one of the finest pipe bands in North America for over 30 years. In August of 1999, the band won First Place in the World Pipe Band Championships and the World Drums Corps Championships for Grade 2 in Glasgow...

Maggie's Music: Ensemble Galilei

Ensemble Galilei takes its name and inspiration from the life of composer Vincenzo Galilei, whose influence, some four hundred years ago, helped restore a vital element of passion to the music of the day.Including both classically-trained and traditi...

Maggie's Music: Hesperus

The vision of Hesperus is innovative, multi-cultural and historically informed early music ensemble.With impressive credentials in early music, they are also one of the nation's first, and most important, performers of "chamber folk" music which brin...

Maggie's Music: Jody Marshall

Jody Marshall is well known for her lively and expressive style, as well as for her creative arrangements of both solo and ensemble pieces. In keeping with her varied musical tastes, she is equally adept at playing Celtic jigs and reels, Renaissance...

Maggie's Music: Karen Ashbrook

With her delicate touch, trademark shimmering lilt and ear for authentic ornamentation, Karen Ashbrook is considered one of the finest Irish hammered dulcimer players anywhere. Add her wooden flute and pennywhistle playing, and you have the consummat...

Maggie's Music: Ken Kolodner

Ken is widely known for an expressive and improvisational style and for creative ensemble playing. His extensive repertoire ranges from traditional music of Ireland, Quebec and Appalachia to music from over 20 countries from around the world. With th...

Maggie's Music: Maggie Sansone

America's premier hammered dulcimer player and recording artist, Maggie Sansone music and pioneering artistry has brought the ringing beauty of her music to hundreds of thousands of music lovers around the world.Maggie has been featured on CBS-TV Sun...

Maggie's Music: Robin Bullock

Hailed as "a master flatpicker" (Sing Out!) and "Celtic flatpicking hero (Folk Roots (U.K.) Robin is also one of a handful of masters on both acoutic guitar, mandolin and cittern ( bouzouki), a flat-backed double-strung instrument. He roams the music...

Maggie's Music: Sue Richards

The evocative power of the Celtic harp has no greater genius than Sue Richards who was called "one of America's brightest stars" by the folk magazine DIRTY LINEN. She has performed for President Bill Clinton at the White House, is a multi-Wammie winn...

Make Web Visitors Stay Longer

The longer visitors stay on your web page, the more interested they are in what you have to offer. The sticky page is just that, one that gets readers to stay glued.

The key to making a sticky page is to build a high-quality page. One that is very u...

Making Great Holiday Lenses

While I thought September 18th (the date on this photo) was a little early to be setting up Christmas trees in Kmart, there's no denying that the holidays are fast approaching. Even if you're not one to get in the holiday spirit so soon, millions of...

Making your First Lens Mentor

EVERYBODY can Squidoo! You can too!

It might take you an afternoon to 'get the hang of it', but that afternoon can be LOTS of fun.

You don't need to be an expert in anything 'internet-y' to be able to build a beautiful, useful and successful Squido...

Man On The Moon

Andy Kaufman(a.k.a Foreign Man, Latka Gravas, Tony Clifton, and many more) was not a comedian. What Andy Kaufman was, by every definition of the term, was a performing artist. His life was consumed by his art.

The Man On The Moon title fits him so m...

Margaret Schaut Squid Angel

Squidoo is a UNIQUE place. I've spent a LOT of time here. I've helped out as Citizen Squid twice, and will probably do that again in the future. I've had LOTD. I've had lenses up for awards. Because of my Squidoo pages I've been contacted by journali...

Me And My Pet Cats

As far back as I can remember there have always been cats in my life. When I was growing up there were always a cat around the house and sometimes kittens too. My brother and I used to love playing with the kittens, they were so cute and cuddly. We o...

Messenger from the Summer of Love

This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch.



Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun...

Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins, known for her sharp wit and keen sense of observation, was a newspaper columnist and author of several best-selling books on politics. She started her journalism career in the complaint department of the Houston Chronicle, wrote for The...

Money Making Opportunities - That Really Work!!!

After living in Southern California for most of my life - I have found it more and more difficult to stay ahead and to afford just the basics. Having a job in the Information Technology field allowed me the time and resources to really look into how...

Mosquito Protection Society

I know you are probably asking yourself who on earth would harm such tiny, fairy-like creatures, but sadly, millions of mosquitoes are injured or killed every year by humans.

Our goal at the Mosquito Protection Society is to educate people about how...

Mt Lassen Volcanic National Park

Mt Lassen National Park is a fascinating place. It is perhaps the lonliest national park, but it is one of the most underrated. Mt Lassen is the southernmost Cascade Range volcano. The elevation is 10,459 ft which is similar to Mt St Helens prior to...

My Claim To Fame

Do you have a claim to fame, anything you have done to give you notoriety? Your claim to fame might be the result of having someone famous in the family, or as a friend, having met a famous person, or having taken part in a special event, appeared on...

My Facebook Experience

While my South Park-esque picture (on your left) is reserved strictly for online message board, and forum, usage, Facebook has grown to become one of my more 'professional' outlets: bearing a similar personal picture like my Squidoo Lenses (on your r...

My Favorite ways to make money online

During these times many people may look for alternative ways to make money. I have heard of people making alot of money online. I am going to list some of my favorites on this lens, ones that I use such as zazzle, link share, 123RF and more.

This is...

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

My Love For Cheesecake Recipes

Knobbly knees, skinny legs, handkerchief enhanced bra, best clobber and off on the bus I'd go, with my friend Sue, to one of the nearby shopping centres.

What could be more perfect for a Saturday? Trying on clothes you don't have the money to buy, g...

Natural Disasters Video Showcase

Natural disasters can strike at any time. They're everywhere, and if your geography isn't subject to tornadoes, very likely you have blizzards, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunmamis, volcanoes, fires, or floods. There's no escaping mother natu...

Nene Thomas

Nene Thomas has become famous for her lovely artwork portrayals of delicate faeries, exquisite dragons, and other beautiful fantasy creatures.

Her previous fantasy art work was featured in several editions of the game, Magic the Ga...

Nevada Barr - Mysteries in National Parks

Born in Yerington, Nevada on March 1, 1952 and named for the state of her birth, Barr grew up in California. She began a career in theater but decided to become a park ranger. She created Anna Pigeon while working at Guadelupe National Park in Texas....

No Angel

At least not in the sense I imagine angels to be.

I would like to clear up a few points. Firstly, angels are sexless creatures. This just isn't true in my case, I'm definitely a woman.

I did once read that angels are composed of ethereal matter, an...

O Hai! We Iz Lolbones!

BOO!!

Move ovr lolcats, we iz ur lolbones. We iz n ur Oktoburz, & n ur Halloween & n ur Day of the Dead.

We will eatz ur cheezburgrz and kiss ur hubby or wif. We will danz wid ur chillen or ups on ur gravez, pla wid ur lolcats, n fli wid ur lo...

On My Way to 300 Squidoo Lenses

Hello fellow squidoo lensmasters. My name is Thomas Carlson. By day I am a cook for a well known southern restaurant, at night I am a Squidoo lensmaster and a t-shirt and gift designer with 4 cafepress stores.
I have reached a goal here at Squidoo wi...

One Week Marketing

Holy Smokies! Are you ready to make money? One Week Marketing is an e-Book that was created by one of the online personalities I love, PotPieGirl. In her real life, she is known as Jennifer and she has a great knack for internet marketing and she is...

Orca - Killer Whales

There is something so fascinating about watching Killer Whales. They are these amazingly intelligent mammals, the more I learn about them, it makes me want to study them, and photograph them in the wild.

They are beautiful to watch as they move thro...

Plum Island

The best of PI.


Eat, sleep, have a great time...and go home with a souvenir.

Never heard of it? You're not the only one.

Plum Island has to be one of Massachusetts' best kept secrets. Less than an hour north of Boston you will find miles of pristi...

Potter Puppet Pals

For those who haven't seen them before, Potter Puppet Pals is a spoof puppet show based on Harry Potter, performed by Neil Cicierega and his sister Emmy.

Newest Video: July 15th, 2009
» Snape's Diary

These are the only original Potter Pupper Pa...

Public Speaking Training by Broadway Actors - Digest

Public Speaking Training by Broadway Actors is a New York City based company of leading actors who give private training, workshops and master classes in public speaking. Among our ranks are actors who have won or been nominated for Emmy, Obie and Dr...

Purple Star Headquarters

The Purple Star Headquarters

A place to find all the lenses that have been given one of Squidoo's elusive purple stars.

Purple Star Recipients

Purple stars have been the topic of much chit chat for a little while now. And, now they are a reality and the lenses featured here are proof.

In the modules of this lens you're going to find the recipients of Squidoo's Purple Stars. These lenses ar...

Rail Trails for Family Biking

About fifteen years ago the city where I lived opened up a rail trail along the bed of an old rail road. In fact, the trail bordered my neighborhood and traveled about 5 miles north and 15 to 20 miles south of me. Additional trails leading east and...

Recently Published Lens List

This lens show you how to add a list of your most recently published lenses to a lens, or to a blog by using a customised newsfeed. It will take you less than 2 minutes in 5 easy steps.

The standard Squidoo lensmaster newsfeed display lenses in lensr...

Religions of Iran

While the government of Iran is a theocracy (a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler, or a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are rega...

Researching Motorized Bicycles

With the high cost of living these days, I'm always looking for ways to cut expenses. And I'm environmentally conscious, too, so I'd like any method of cutting costs to also reduce my impact on our planet. It didn't take much consider...

Rhubarb Pie - Great Recipes

Photo Courtesy of Cameron Nordholm

 

Each spring the rhubarb patch, once again, becomes the star of the garden for many people. Not much else is growing, yet.

A freshly baked rhubarb pie is the first recipe that "springs" to mind (get...

Roadside Attractions & Oddities

What is it that draws us to those oddball attractions dotting the roadways of America? Not the nationally advertised tourist traps and amusements that drain your wallet, but the obscure, off-beat oddities that sit quietly in small towns or along blue...

Royalty Free Images for Use on Websites

It can be frustrating sometimes when you are trying to find the perfect picture for your lens, website, blog post or whatever the case may be, and you don't want to spend a lot of money on stock photography. Stock photos only cost a few dollars or so...

Scottish Highland Games

As told by my husband.

The highland games of Scotland have been around for about 1000 years. Some Kings used forms of this type of competition to improve their military back in the late 1050's. Kings used similar types of this competition to choose...

Severe Weather Phobia

Are you scared of storms? Not me! But many people are terrified... I have always loved thunder storms. Ever since I was a little kid I remember peering out the window to watch the storm. I love the clouds, the clapping and rumbling of the thunder, th...

Sir Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is arguably the greatest modern male actor of our time. Sealing his legendary status with his award winning portrayal of Mohandis Gandhi in 1982, Sir Ben has continued to this day dazzling audiences and critics alike with stellar perform...

Spider Robinson: Callahan's Saloon and More

"If one were given the task of creating Spider Robinson from scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world...

Squid Angel

SquidAngel Blessing | If you have found your way here you have probably been 'Blessed By A Squid Angel!' What just happened? Read on to find out more about Squid Blessings and more about SemperFidelis. Perhaps some randomness, as well!

Squid Angel -- Blessings to YOU!

This is the first instance on Squidoo that I've actually written about my Catholic upbringing in Cleveland, Ohio, and what an impact it had on my spiritual being. You see, it was the nuns and priests that I encountered in elementary and grade sch...

Squid Angel Blessings by Chef Keem

With a Squid Angel Blessing your lenses will get a boost for your lens rank, which might improve your earnings and lead to more traffic and recognition. Not bad, huh? But what does it take to receive a Squid Angel Blessing?

In general, our group of...

Squid Etiquette

Squid Etiquette is all about what to do and what NOT to do on Squidoo! It is a very different How To Squidoo than you have probably seen before.

In our enthusiasm to not only publish our first few Squidoo lenses but also get traffic, we may forget...

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?

Squidoo - A Good Investment? Is It Really Worth It?

When asked, "is it a good investment to make Squidoo lenses?", or, "is it worth it to spend all that time on Squidoo?" - I answer "yes, it is a good investment for me!" I know how to make money online! I know how to work from home using Squidoo.com a...

Squidoo Community Badges and Titles

If you have spent any time at all on Squidoo, you may have noticed the badges and titles displayed on some lenses. These are honors that have been awarded to Squidoo lensmasters for various achievements they have reached or for services they have do...

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 he...

Squidoo Guide: Linking Tips

There are many ways that you can add links to your Lens, improving the experience of your readers. How you add those links often depends on what those links are for. This Lens explains the different types of links, and the techniques available to you...

Squidoo Modules List

This lens is the gateway to my Squidoo Modules Tour, demonstrating each Squidoo module so you can see how it looks and how to use it. There are four ways to use my Squidoo Modules List:

• Print out the no-frills Squidoo Modules List
  
• Download the list a...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides

Squidoo Tools, Guides, Lens addons, Linkbuilding tips, and news

This is a collection of free Squidoo tools, guides, and other resources to help you build and market your Squidoo Lenses.

I will also continue to gather various addons that you can ad...

Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)

Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve?

Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses?

Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again?

Would you like to rank higher in G...

SquiDOO's and SquiDON'Ts

When I first signed up with Squidoo I was more than a little overwhelmed by the vast amount of information that was in front of me. So this lens is meant to be SIMPLE

Squidoo is an amazing online community and, as such, there is a lot to learn. What...

Squidoo's Unofficial Procrastination Primer

This lens is for you. Nobody has to tap you on the shoulder; you know who you are. You're the one who has a gazillion good lens ideas, but need five extra hours in your day to decide which one to pursue. You're creative and funny and smart, and happi...

Squoogle

Squoogle is an article directory that is looking for quality submissions of lenses (and other select pages from approved sites) so we can provide links and traffic to your best lenses.

We want the best of the best (of the best). So be sure to read t...

St. Patrick's Day Fun for Everyone

Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day - at least it seems like that in the USA. Join the festivities for St. Patrick's day - enjoy a St. Patrick's Day party, decorate the office, classroom and home with shamrocks, leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day h...

Stumpedia - The Search Engine

There's a new kid on the search engine block called Stumpedia. It's unique approach is that it is a human powered search engine which allows users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases, which can then be rated and ranked by its own...

Submit URL: Squidoo Lens Promotion

On this page, you'll find some links to places you can submit your Squidoo lenses to so that you can get more web traffic to your lens.

Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linkin...

Success at Blogging tips

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

Super Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks to use on Squidoo

These html tricks for Squidoo are not really that super advanced. But they are super cool! Anyone can do this, Yes, you too!

This lens would not be possible if it were not for the groundwork of other lenmasters: specifically, Magicality and N376 so t...

Susan Lucci?

Susan Lucci's first appearance for the nation was on January 5, 1970, 39 years ago. I have bragged to people for years that I saw the very first episode, although I was clerking for State Farm Insurance that day. I guess not. However, a year later I...

Tables for Squidoo Lenses

The <table> and associated tags are not permitted on Squidoo, and if you attempt to put these into your lens, they will get stripped out. The Table Generator will convert CSV data or a HTML table into code that is compatible, and looks just as...

Talk like a Pirate Day

Liven your corporate board meeting!  Delight your women's group!  Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day every September 19th by talking like a pirate.  Use the handy English/Pirate translator here and soon you'll be fulll of &...

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic.

Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.

Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to.

So, what now? Read on for the (...

The Affiliate Marketer's Ezine On Squidoo Headquarters

The Affiliate Marketer's Ezine On Squidoo

This is a group of affiliate marketers who have great information. Consider this an ezine of sorts full of great tips and resources.

The Amazing Career of Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren has been a star of the stage and screen for over 40 years and the winner of almost every major acting award.

From 1991 to 2006, she starred in the award-winning TV series Prime Suspect, and in 2006 she won the Best Actress Oscar for her...

The Best of the Wurst

Bratwurst, Knockwurst, Bockwurst....all part of the wurst family. They may all sound very similar but they are very different. You have your pork varieties, then your veal varieties and then there is the veal and beef varieties and so on. I don't kno...

The Classic Rock Group Headquarters

Welcome Classic Rock Fans!

This is the home of Classic Rock lenses and video showcases on Squidoo.com.
Build a lens or a Video Showcase about your favorite artist, band, band member, favorite all-time songs - whatever. As long as it ROCKS! Join ou...

The Daily Joke - July 2008

Finding a way to bring more laughter into people's lives is a hobby of mine. I strongly believe that if we can find a way to laugh at the problems that life throws at us, that the day can pass much better than if we just allow the everyday routine to...

The Daily Joke - November 2008

The Daily Joke is a series of monthly lenses with something funny for every day in the month. For November I thought it would be a good time to send out some of the weird news items that seem to come from all corners of the globe these days. I don't...

The Daily Joke Collection

This lens is an index of all the humor and jokes lenses that I have created. The jokes and humor collection is growing with every month, so I thought it would be a good idea to list them all in one place, so you don't miss any.

As well as the Dail...

The Daily Joke September 2008

The Daily Joke is a series of monthly lenses to help give you a reason to laugh every day of the month. My Daily Joke lenses usually have a joke for every day of the month, but I thought for September I would do something a little different, with a s...

The Donations Module

Squidoo now has a way for you and your fans to donate to your favorite Squidoo Charity right on the lens with the Donations Module!

This is a great idea if you are holding fund raising drive. Just build a lens and e-mail it to the people who want to...

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)

No, it's not a rock group (but it might as well be). It's the core group of movers and shakers at Squidoo. It's a gathering of influentials, the most dedicated lensmakers on Squidoo.

Here's how this whole thing started. One day at Sq...

THE GIANT SQUIDS 100 CLUB (and how you can become one)

The 100 Club is for Lensmasters who have created over 100 quality lenses here on Squidoo!

They are the best of the best. These top notch lens masters are known for their superior lens making abilities, mentoring, charity work and all around helpfuln...

The Great Irish Famine - An Epic of Death and Immigration

IN THE shadow of Ireland's "holy" mountain, Croagh Patrick, stands a most unusual ship. It looks like a small 19th-century sailing ship with its prow pointing west toward the Atlantic Ocean. But this ship will never set sail. It is firmly fixed in a...

The Hitchhikers Guide to The Squidoo Lens Creation Universe!

Hi Folks as a volunteer forum moderator of the Squidoo Forum, and Squidoo Angel, over time I have collected a vast knowledge base of lenses and articles pertaining to building great Squidoo lenses. I use this extensive collection of resources to hel...

The Introduction Module in Squidoo

The introduction module in squidoo has an inbuilt table of content. Do use it!

And do upload a picture as an intro image - not having one will stop people from featuring your lens on theirs. And no - just using HTML to put a picture in there does NO...

The Irish Story of Frank Martin and the Fairies, Retold in Limericks

Frank Martin was a sickly Irish weaver who had been baptized against fairies as an infant. Ever since then he had the gift of "seeing the good people." In other words, he could see and hear fairies.

Others in his town were not blessed with this abil...

The Love Of Dragons: Dragons In Books And On Video

Around the world, through many ages and cultures, there have been stories of dragons. They may be described in slightly different ways in different areas and times, but are often depicted as being serpentine or reptilian. They usually hatch from eggs...

The Mamas And The Papas Video Showcase

Apart from some great songs with fabulous melodies and harmonies, the thing I really like about the Momas and the Popas was the they organised the first real rock festival.

But apart from Monterey, their contribution to both American and world music...

The Module Mentor

What makes Squidoo different than other help-you-build-it websites?

One feature is modules.

Modules are sections of a lens that you add depending on what kind of content you want to add. Want to create a list of links? Add a link module. Want to wr...

The New Module Showcase

February 20, 2009

The old module picker has been overhauled, tested by dozens of Giant Squids, and is now packed with some cool tools for newbies and pros alike. Our goal was to make it easier for you to find and add modules to your lenses. After al...

The Purple Star Program!

Some things are worth the wait.

That includes the new Purple Star program.

Giant Squids, please meet your newest perk.

Anyone who hopes to be a Giant one day soon, meet your latest reason to roll up your sleeves and keep trying.

The Rain Forests of Borneo

Borneo, in Southeast Asia, is a beautiful country with unique wildlife. It is home to the illusive orangutan, proboscis monkey, Bornean clouded leopard and many other endangered species. It is a wonderful destination for more adventurous travelers, b...

The Revelation Space Universe

The Revelation Space Universe was created by science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. It is the setting for most of his novels and short stories and takes its name from his first novel. It is also one of my favourite SF series of books.

The novels...

The RSS Module - How to use RSS on Squidoo

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and that's just what it is. This lens discusses the RSS Module of Squidoo, the many, many ways that it can be utilized to add unique content to your lenses daily which could help boost your lens rank and keep...

The Wicked Tinkers

I first heard the Wicked Tinkers at the 2001 Calaveras Celtic Faire in Angels Camp, CA. I loved their non-traditional musical approach to Celtic music and instruments, always with a WICKED sense of fun. Did I mention that they are REALLY loud, too?...

Tips for Artists to Increase Internet Exposure

... and that's because I'm learning too and everything I describe has to be simple - otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do it! What is certain is that my approach has been successful. Undoubtedly there is more to come and things I have missed, wh...

Tony Hillerman: Author of Navajo Police Mysteries

Tony Hillerman is best known for his mystery novels about the Navajo Tribal Police, known officially as the Navajo Department of Law Enforcement. His two main characters are Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant," and Sergeant Jim Chee. H...

Top 10 Internet Memes

An internet phenomenon or a meme is an image, video, phrase or simply an idea that spreads from one person to another seemingly for no logical reason at all. When people see a meme, no matter how silly it usually is, they find it amusing for one reas...

Top 100 Rated Lensmasters

Here are the Top Rated Lensmasters, based on how many stars their lenses have received from fellow Lensmasters, across all of their lenses.

This is calculated from the data collected by SQUIDUtils.com. 
(see Lensmaster Tools for more inform...

Transatlantic Sessions Video Showcase

A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK.

For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...

Types of Squidoo Lenses

If you are new to Squidoo, or have only been creating the "normal" lenses, you might not know yet that Squidoo actually has several breeds of them. These usually have a different layout and look and choosing the right type should help you get more vi...

Types of Squidoo Lenses

SquidWho and SquidLit and MonkeyBrain, oh my!

There are many different lens templates you can use when creating your lens. Some of the different lens types can conveniently be found at the very bottom of your dashboard screen. Others are well hidden...

Using Microsoft Excel to Track Squidoo Lenses

As a newcomer to Squidoo, I quickly found myself overwhelmed with the nuances of creating a successful lens. Whether a lens has photos or not, has been promoted via various avenues, has incoming links, has tags, belongs to groups, or has been updated...

Vladimir the Cultured Cat

Please allow me the honour of introducing myself to you. In brief, I am a domestic short hair, fully black with no hint of grey, 18 years old and in prime condition although prone to recurring bouts of yech breath.

Recently, due to circumstances bey...

Vote Now for the 2008 Giant Squid Awards

Welcome to the 2008 Giant Squid Awards! We've hand picked over 100 Giants in 15 Categories for you to vote on along with "Best Lensography" and "Giant Squid of the Year".

Now sit back, relax and take a look at these fabulous lenses. I know it's goin...

Wait, Squidoo has Dark Angels too?

You've heard of the Squid Angels, sweet and kind, who flit about Squidoo bearing tidings of joy and happiness and sunshine whilst bestowing Angel Blessings on deserving lenses.

But have you heard of the dark side of being an Angel?

Website Content Writing Tips for Squidoo, Your Website or Blog

This lens focuses on writing web content that will entertain site visitors, do well in search engine queries, and provide helpful answers to those who seek your information.

If you want your pages to be noticed and to be used as reference pages peop...

Weird 80s Music Videos

The Eighties were all about music videos. Mtv was born in 1981, and for a few years it actually played videos almost exclusively!

From the very first time "Video Killed the Radio Star" aired, the game was on to create ever more uniquely memorable mi...

What do Women Want in a Man

What do women want in a man?

We're not talking about basic traits here. No, that would be too easy. Instead, we're going to have a look at the top ten things that men do to annoy women.

Being a guy, I'm hardly qualified to create this lens on my ow...

What Evolution Isn't

Some people in America have a lot of erroneous ideas about what Evolution is. They think it's a religion, an ideology, a moral judgment, or an evil plot to turn them away from God.

Well, evolution is none of those things and through this lens I...

What Should I Do?

Not sure where you're going, who you are, how to think, or even what planet you're on? Relax, we have a solution for you!

Forget that famous guy that hangs out in the big black book, go straight to the modern experts on your chosen confusion.

Wonderin...

What's wrong with this lens?

It's true that it's easier to show examples of what NOT to do on lenses than what you SHOULD be doing. After all, there are a billion right ways to create a Squidoo lens, and the list of specific things not to do is much more clear in many respects....

WhiteSmoke 2009 - Grammar, Spelling and Style Checker

WhiteSmoke 2009 is an innovative proofreading and editing tool with a single aim - to help you write better. Whether you simply want to compose well-written emails to family and friends, or you need professional results for business and corporate set...

Who in the World is Janet21?

We'll, I have heard that creating a lensography is the hip thing to do on Squidoo these days and that everyone is doing it.  I know, I know, you shouldn't do something just because 'everyone else is doing it', (my mom ta...

Who is Susan52?

Known on Squidoo as Susan52, I'm a wife and a mom, a baby boomer, a writer and editor, and a busy businessperson who's still trying to figure out what she really wants to be when she grows up.

As for the 52, well, let's just say it was a very go...

WHO? SquidAngels!

Get to know the SquidAngels! We are a small group of dedicated lensmasters with special powers to bless remarkable lenses for a little LensRank (and ego) boost. We also help to keep Squidoo safe from spam and other bad apples.

Did you know?: Eve...

Why Squidoo?

If you're like me you need to know the details before you commit. Now that I've seen and weighed it up for myself here's a bunch of good reasons why you should sign up to Squidoo...

Woodstock Music Festival 1969

Woodstock 1969

The 60's was a turbulent decade. The assassination of JFK kept us fixated on the TV for days and gave us an insecurity that other decades had not felt before.

 

Those of us growing into our own during the 60's were also ve...

Wordsworth's Lake District

William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth and spent most of his life in Grasmere and Rydal, in the heart of the Lake District.
Rydal Water is pictured here.

Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake, pictured below, were sources of inpsiration to Wordsworth an...

Working with Faeries

Do you believe in faeries?


Wise folk and witches of old have worked with the faerie realm for centuries. Whether you are a spiritual or magical person, or simply curious about the Folk, this lens will explain all about the realms of Fey, how to wor...

Write Good With Help From William Safire's Fumblerules

Years ago, way before I was cornated as a Giant Squid, folks was always trying to illicit my good writing secrets. Heck, what was I suppose to do? Hoard them like a greedy miser in my chester drawers? Anyways, I could care less about there getting be...

Zazzle 101 ... How to make a profit on Zazzle

Zazzle is one of the Print-on-demand companies out there that allows people to design & sell their own creations. I love Zazzle's ease of use, friendly staff, and the fact that I can make money on my art.

I've put together this comprehe...