Squidoo Tips 4 (Save your Lens)

Once you are finished your Lens, be sure to save it! It only takes a couple of minutes of your time!

This includes your Groups too!

1. In your workshop, look over to the bottom right of the navigation bar, and click on the side arrow to open up "Export".



2. Click on the orange "Export" button



3. On the File Download box that will pop up, click on "Save"



4. I recommend that you save this in a Squidoo Lenses folder

5. Leave the filename the same

6. Click on Save

You have now saved an XML file of your Lens.

To save your Lens in HTML format, you can do this two ways.

I use Internet Explorer, if you use another browser, the print screens won't be the same, but look for something similar.



1. On your browser, click on "File" (top left of page)

2. Select "Save As", this will bring up a Save Web Page box.



3. I recommend that you save this in a Squidoo Lenses folder

4. Leave the filename the same

You now have two choices:

If you want to save both the HTML file as well as all the other files (i.e. images, video's etc), follow Step 5-A.

If you only want to save the HTML file, follow Step 5-B.

5-A. Make sure that the "save as type" shows "Web Page, complete

5-B. Make sure that the "save as type" shows "Web Page, HTML only"



7. Click "Save"

You have now saved an HTML file or an HTML file as well as ALL the files on your lens (i.e. images, video files, every file on that page) created in a sub-folder.

When you first create your lens, be sure to save it right away. And then every time you make a revision to your lens, save it again.

Another tip if you are preparing a long text type module. Be sure to compose and save it first in another document; Word, Works, Notepad etc. Then copy it into the text module. If there are any problems on Squidoo, you don't want to lose all your work!

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