Squidoo Tips From CleanerLife

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Things That Help Make Lensbuilding Easier For Me

Squidoo is great for sharing, much of what I've learned since joining has been from other members of Squidoo.

Some Lensmasters are great for giving ideas on how to write better, others explain how to be more artistic.

I've received a lot of inspiration by Lensmasters who reveal tricks, and how-to's related to the behind the scenes aspect of Lens and website building like editing images, adding borders around text and promotional strategies.

In the true spirit of Squidoo's tradition of sharing, and helping others, I've come up with some of my own tips. These are things I actually do, or have gone through for myself, and I thought that others may find this information useful.

Here I've collected my own set of Squidoo Tips to make it easier to find them all in one place.

Lenses About Using The GIMP 

The GIMP is a free program for working with images. I had no idea what it was before joining Squidoo, but after learning more about it from a few other Lensmasters, I am now having a lot of fun with it.

The GIMP is a great tool, and I find it is a great way to make my Lenses look better by improving the pictures. From little things like adding some text, to combining several different images into a single picture, I find myself using on almost every Lens I build these days (like for the Intro picture).

Most people have heard of Photoshop, and they know what it is to "Photoshop" a picture. Chances are, if you can do it with Photoshop, there's a way to do it with GIMP, especially for us amateur photo-editors who don't want to buy Photoshop.

All of my GIMP tips and tricks are linked to the following page:

featured lens GIMP Tips Tricks & Tutorials

For a free program, GIMP sure delivers on features, functions, and just all around usefulness. It may seem like learning another language at first, but once you start working with it, it gets easier to understand things. I find it is easier to expla...

CSS & HTML Tips 

One of the best things about Squidoo for me is the chance to learn more. I came here with a head full of how I thought the Internet worked. I had learned how to build websites without knowing much about CSS or HTML. They were bland, and didn't come out the way I had imagined.

Now, thanks mainly to information found here, for free, on Squidoo, I am now much more knowledgeable about how CSS and HTML work behind the scenes to make the experience of the readers much more enjoyable.

I also know enough to realize that there's plenty more to learn, but I've learned enough to experiment on my own. Now I've managed to come across little tricks that help me quickly polish up my own Lenses.

featured lens HTML Cheats: Quick Bulleted Lists Using Blogs

Lists of bullet points are eye catching. They are a great way to break up your text and draw the reader's eyes to important information. The big problem for Internet writers is all the extra typing that needs to be done behind the scenes to get them...

featured lens Advanced HTML For Borders & Backgrounds On Squidoo

While looking at various Lenses, I noticed many Lensmasters were having the same problems I have getting the custom borders they make match up with their Lens photos. This is most noticeable when there aren't enough words in an Intro or Text module...

featured lens HTML Cheats - Make Quick Links Using Blogs

Making links can mean a lot of typing. Depending on which platform you are trying to make your links for, it can mean a lot of extra typing. Learning to make links, is like learning a whole new language, but some platforms, like WordPress, will make...

featured lens How To Link Squidoo Modules

Many web pages are easy to navigate due to in-page links. With Squidoo, it's easy to link to locations on your Lens using the modules. If you use the Lens Workshop Addon (with either Firefox or Google Chrome) you can easily make these links from wit...

featured lens Correcting Problems With Special HTML Characters On Squidoo Lenses

Some modules on Squidoo have a problem showing special HTML characters, they may look okay when you work on them, but the next time you open that module to edit it, you'll see white question marks in black diamonds in place of your special characters...

Amazon Tips For Squidoo Lensmasters 

You do not need an affiliate account with Amazon to advertise merchandise on Amazon and get paid commissions for any sales made due to that advertising when you use one of the Amazon Modules here on Squidoo!
featured lens Amazon Tips For Squidoo Lensmasters

Lensmasters can promote a large variety of products from the Internet's largest online retailer without belonging to the Amazon Associates program, and earn 50% of Squidoo's commission for any items that are purchased from the Amazon Modules on their...

Promotional Tips 

Once a Lens is built, is that really the end?

Of course not!

There is already a lot of information on Squidoo about how to promote your work once you've published it. Based on some interesting problems in the search engines I had recently, I took a closer look at one way, which is using a site called Zimbio.

featured lens How To Promote Your Content: Getting More Out Zimbio

I joined Zimbio to get backlinks for my blog posts and Squidoo Lenses. I did intend to learn more about it, but was content to just add my RSS feeds and give "Kudos" to people I knew until one of my articles posted to Zimbio began to outrank the orig...

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About CleanerLife 

Lensmaster, Webmaster, I'm addicted to the Internet. I'm an information and entertainment junkie.

I'm obsessed with eating healthy, fresh food raised or grown as local as possible, reducing pollution, increasing recycling, and using natural products in and around the home.

Lensmaster CleanerLife has been a member since July 16 2008, has rated 2,990 lenses, favorited 762, and has created 101 lenses from scratch. Dan Boutilier donates their royalties to Soldiers Angels. This member's top-ranked page is "Old Fashioned Christmas". See all my lenses

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