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My Top 10 Places To Look For Help at Squidoo

My journey into the "Online World", began as I was searching for ways to show people what I do. I am an artist, a very unknown one. I will admit it was challenging for me. I had no idea where to start. After researching, I found Imagekind. I opened a "Free Account" there. They were my first stop in my new journey. Not long after I discovered Zazzle, and opened my second site there.

People that did know me kept suggesting that I start my own website. I stumbled upon Freewebs and signed up with them. After reading quite a bit, I made a site that I felt would help me tell the world who I was and allow me to point them to other places they could find my art.

One morning, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that LaraineRose had given me a great honor and she was showing one of my paintings on her Squidoo lens, Staycation -- Everyone Should Try One . I was thrilled and intrigued by Squidoo. This was the first time I had heard of it. I found myself visiting all of her lenses and branching out to look at many others. After spending many hours looking at as many as time would allow, I decided that maybe I could write Squidoo lenses, too. So began my journey

Below you will find my personal Top 10 Favorite places to help me with my adventure on the Internet. I hope that if you are new to Squidoo they will be helpful for you. There are many talented, knowledgeable people here to learn from.

I knew I wanted to write quality lenses. I wanted to be able to add color and change fonts. I wanted my lenses to be easily found. I wanted them to show up in search engines. I wanted to be able to link to them from my other sites.

I didn't know anything about "code". I had to learn what modules were and the best ones for me. Simply stated, I was lost but determined. I began reading, a lot. The lenses I have posted on this lens is where I found valuable information to help me. I hope they will help you also. Thank you to all of the wonderful people here that help those of us that are just beginning, we do appreciate you and we realize that it isn't as easy as you make it look.

Happy Squidooing!

Please note the Squid Art above.
SquidArt Too by Steve Thompson / tagsforkids is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Squidoo logo is a trademark of Squidoo LLC. Graphics, Squidart and Squidoodles © 2009 by tagsforkids (Steve Thompson) . Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.

Where I look for HELP!

#1 I look to the Giants(written by smallfry) for guidance.
(the Giant Squids here at Squidoo)

One of the first places I look to get help is to the Giant Squids. What better place to start, they have accumulated a vast amount of information and are willing to share their secrets. Be sure to check out their lenses and don't forget to click on the stars.

Here are some of the Giant Squids that I look to for information on writing lenses (in no particular order), just to get you started.
bdkz
MrLewisSmile
jeffryv
spirituality
Sojourn
Greekgeek
N376
thefluffanutta
Squidster

In case you are wondering how I picked these particular Giant Squids, well most of the advice on this lens came from the ones listed above. There are many more Giant Squids, take a look at
Introducing Squidoo's Giant Squids

Below you will find groups of lenses that will help you with each of my Top 10 categories.

#2 The Answer Deck

In my opinion, you should favorite the Answer Deck immediately, or tag it in your computer for quick reference. I find myself using the Answer Deck anytime I have questions, it is packed full of valuable information, from A to Z.

#3 Quality Lenses

Tips for making a quality lens

First, if you are going to write a lens you certainly want it to have the highest quality. You will find a wealth of information on how to do this on Create A Quality Lens
You have to put some time and effort into creating lenses that people will find valuable and enjoy reading. There needs to be a focus and eye appeal, but you have to have great information.

You can also find out a lot more about Squidoo and the lensmasters by visiting Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo by bdkz She has created a Blog list on this lens that is a must see.

#4 Modules and Introductions

Fantastic advice

Modules are sections in your lenses. You need to spend some time looking at the different modules Squidoo has available. There are many of them that do different things. Here are some lenses that will help you to use these modules and to make better lenses.

#5 Find My Lens

You spend hours researching and writing a lens. Once you have it published you want people to be able to find your lens. Here are a few lenses that will help you with Search Engine Optimization which will help Google find your lens and that helps people find your lens.

#6 HTML

There is a lot of information available on HTML. I'm taking baby steps to learn about HTML. I now know how to change my background color, make my text larger, use a different font and a few other neat tricks. I learned how by reading and constantly referring back to the lenses below.

#7 CSS and Themes

The following lenses about CSS are very helpful and the one on Themes.

#8 RSS

Wondering if you need a RSS Feed... check out this article, Need for Feeds and this one on the ABC's of RSS This is a wonderful way to display information from your blog, or if you are an artist you can display your work(See Example Below)

RSS Feed from one of my Galleries

Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

#9 Lens Ranking

Being "Popular" does have it's advantages and so does writing quality lenses that people find useful. If you are needing to improve your Lens Ranking...Follow the advice in this lens to Improve your lens rank. I know I'll be studying them even more! (shh...don't tell, but I have so much more to learn)

#10 The Lensmaster Lounge

The Lensmaster Lounge is a discussion forum.
Be sure to check out SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids

A great place to hang out, meet new people, get advice and show off your lenses. Be certain to always be polite. You will meet a lot of wonderful people that are willing to offer advice and tips they have learned along the way. There is also a section where you can post a lens that you would like Critiqued.

One More Thing...

Keyword Research

I have found out that Keywords are critical. This wonderful lens will show you what to do, how to pick better keywords and tells you why. Try to use your keywords often throughout your lens. I thought keywords were the same as tags, but I found out I was wrong.

Other Wonderful Squidoo Resource Lens

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There are many helpful lenses on writing Squidoo lenses. There is no way I can list them all by myself...Please help by adding yours or your favorites by other lensmaster.

Please note the Squid Art above.
SquidArt Too by Steve Thompson / tagsforkids is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Squidoo logo is a trademark of Squidoo LLC. Graphics, Squidart and Squidoodles © 2009 by tagsforkids (Steve Thompson) . Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.

Top 10 Helpful Areas to Search for Help with Lenses

My Top 10 Places To Look For Help at Squidoo

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

#1 Look to the Giant Squids

Where I look for HELP!

#2 The Answer Deck

#3 Quality Lenses

Tips for making a quality lens

#4 Modules and Introductions

Fantastic advice

#5 Find My Lens

#6 HTML

#7 CSS and Themes

#8 RSS

RSS Feed from one of my Galleries

#9 Lens Ranking

#10 The Lensmaster Lounge

One More Thing...

Keyword Research

Other Wonderful Squidoo Resource Lens

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