These Are The Best Of The Best: My Favorite Squidoo Lenses
This lens is just a simple list of those lenses that I particularly like. There are some that cover all types of topics, like travel, how to make money on Squidoo, how to make use of everyday household products, or they are just the lensmasters own tributes to certain celebrities, or their hobbies. I just wish I could include all my favorites, but to do that, all you have to do is to log onto Squidoo. You are only limited at Squidoo by your own imagination.
How To Create A Jaw Dropping Lens
You've seen them. Great lenses that just make you stop and think Wow! That is an awesome lens. Where's my "favorite it" button? I've been able to find some stunning lenses that knocked my socks off visually and with the content the particular lensmaster has gathered together and include them here. They raise the bar for the rest of us. If you want to have an absolutely top-notch lens, you need to work hard to meet the standards they set.What Makes My Socks Fly?
Well, great content to start. Unique images. A great layout. I hate seeing a lens that looks cluttered. That's one of my own problems on my lenses. I think they're just a little too jumbled.
What I love to see is information and pictures juxtapositioned in a clean, neat way. The content is most important to me. I'm a voracious reader. I read anything and everything, always have and likely always will. Reading engaging text that gives you pause and makes you want to re-read what you've just taken in should be the goal of anyone who writes. You know what you like and if a writer can make you feel emotion from the dry, written word? You remember the ideas he or she is trying to convey. That's the whole enchilata as far as poetry goes. And good writing in general too.
I believe that if you write something, anything, you can always improve upon it. It's always better to write something (even if it's pure drivel) than to write nothing at all. Most of the best writing you've seen has usually gone through numerous drafts and re-writes before it falls into your hands. Write it, put it aside and then re-read it or have someone else read it for you. You'll be surprised at what an extra pair of eyes will spot in your ramblings that can be fixed or adjusted.
Images: The Short Story
I'm a word man. I like puns, jokes, and plays on words. I get that from my Dad who tells the corniest jokes. But, an image can stop you in your tracks.
You know the old saw, "A picture is worth a thousand words." That is so true. A photo is really a compressed short story that can be interpreted differently by different people. We see images every day of our lives, but some stick with us all our lives. Movement, frozen in time, sometimes in a photograph, or just in our mind, we remember that which catches our eye.
That's what makes photography so much fun. You can capture the harsh realities of life or bend an image to suit your purposes. We all can picture New York during the horror of 911 but we also remember the smiling faces of loved ones at Christmas. Take some pictures and look at them years later. Don't they just evoke warm feelings and fond memories (even if you were arguing with your spouse before company arrived?)
Truly Beautiful Lenses
These should be trotted out for all new members of Squidoo so they can see what can be accomplished. Just stunningly beautiful lenses, incredible formatting and use of the space available. These will instantly become your favorites as well.
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RMS Titanic, Ship of Dreams
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On April 14th 1912 the most luxurious passenger liner on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York hit icebergs and sank in less than 3 hours later. 1,500 people lost their lives. The Titanic sank in Canadian waters, about 400 miles off the coa...
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Thirteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns--all under false manifests--across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Forty thousand Sovi...
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The Beatles Songs - My Favorite Kind Of Music
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There were probably many bands that created and recorded more songs that The Beatles did. But no other pop band or solo artist has ever had greater impact on the society and culture than the famous Fab Four from Liverpool, England - John Lennon, Paul...
The Triumvirate: Seth, Megan and Gil
Seth Godin is the man. He's the guy who started Squidoo. Megan Casey is the Editor-in-Chief at Squidoo. Gil Hildebrand, (aka Giltotherescue), hails from New Orleans and is the chief engineer and tech go-to guy at Squidoo.
Lots Of Cool Artwork Lenses
You Really Need To Take A Look At These. Really, Really Good Stuff
Squidoo is a great medium for featuring various artists, painters and sculptures.
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Michelangelo's David
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The stature and prominence, the importance and influence of Michelangelo's David statue may surprise you! The David statue tells a story, yes, and that story is here. But the statue has his OWN story to tell, one that not many people know. Here i...
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Native American Art and Culture~The Sioux Nation
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There are Four branches to the Sioux Tribe: The Teton (native name; Lakota) is the oldest Ancestral branch and includes; Ogalala, Brule (sicangu), Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, Oohenonpa, Itazipco (Sans Arcs), and Sihasapa. The Second branch is the Santee S...
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The Starving Acrylic Artist
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When you are born an artist, throughout all your life's journey, the world becomes a canvas. Whether outside or on the couch or reading a good book, I am always thinking about capturing the moment with paint. In all my pieces I try to capture the sou...
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Fractal Art by Vicky
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I love fractal art! Discovered it in 2003, three years after getting my first computer...and embracing my inner geek. By 2005 I was uploading files to CafePress on classroom computers -- when I was technically supposed to be teaching kindergarten. Re...
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Karen's Thomas Kinkade Art Store
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Welcome to my Thomas Kinkade Art Store Lens. I am the #1 Thomas Kinkade Artwork Collector in the World with 192 Thomas Kinkade paintings. I am the proud owner of several Kinkade originals in my private collection and can advise you from a Collector&#...
These Are Just A Few Of The Lensmasters I Admire
This module shouldn't be limited to just five! There are so many others besides just Loyalis, Jaguar Julie, Janet21, Christine and Fluffanutta. All have a ton of information created to help lensmasters get to the next step.
These Are The Lenses I Like To Refer To When I Have A Question About Making Lenses
Read, Read and Then Read Some More
So I looked around and found a bunch of lensmasters who had already created some amazingly detailed lenses about applying HTML and CSS to Squidoo. There's a lot more available if you want to look, but all you need to create great looking lenses is on these lenses.
What About Money?
Then I thought "Hmmm. I wonder how you make money with a lens?" There's a lot of lenses that help you out in that area too. I saved the lenses I thought were the best in that area and read and then re-read them. I followed their links to other lenses and checked all over the internet to try to find "the secret" to making money on Squidoo. I found out what the "secret" was all right. Hard work and diligence! Maybe with a little bit of luck thrown in.
Read, Read and Then Do A Little Reading
That's just about the best advise I can give. Maybe it should be read and test, then read some more then test some more. Take a look at the best lenses I've highlighted here, but go looking for great lenses yourself. There are over 750,000 lenses on Squidoo. Have I read them all? No way! I want to, but even I have a life. Go to the forum at Squidu and ask some questions. Read some of the posts from other squids. See if you can apply what they've learned to your situation. Read blogs about Squidoo. A lot of people here have some very informative blogs. Not just mine (although I like it, thank you very much!)
Read A Book About Marketing!
They're not all boring books full of charts. There are a ga-zillion books being made about internet marketing being written that are fun, informative and that you can apply to yourself. The founder of Squidoo, Seth Godin, has written a bunch of great books about marketing that you can pick up.
Some Great Lenses About How To Be Successful On Squidoo
Everyone who's working with Squidoo can use a little help. Here's a series of lenses I like that give you a leg up.
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How to Create Backlinks
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Backlinks are really important in the world of Search Engine Optimization. If you want your site to do well in google search results you have to have a good page rank. If you want a higher page rank you're going to need some backlinks. Backlinks...
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How to Squidoo -- A Step-by-Step Primer
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This step-by-step primer gives you plenty of how-to information on how to get started building your Squidoo lens. Get some useful tips about how to build that lens with plenty of helpful pictures of the various templates you can use. You'll see plent...
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Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides
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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...
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Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)
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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...
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Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?
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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...
Some Of The Best Info About HTML and CSS On Squidoo
There's more than just these lenses that give lenmasters a hand in formatting their lenses, but these ones are essential in my opinion.
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Basic HTML for Squidoo
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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...
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My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo
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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...
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Advanced HTML for Squidoo
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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...
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HTML and CSS
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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...
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Create Stunning CSS Backgrounds with Images
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Have you heard of CSS Backgrounds? Do you have a Squidoo lens or two? How about a website? A MySpace profile? Are you bored by all those plain old white backgrounds? Here I'm going to show you how to spice up your lenses and pages and create bea...
Animation and Graphics
Here are some great lens for you to oogle. These are just outstanding and if they don't motivate you to add great images, nothing will. I look at these and I want to make some cool graphics myself!
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Free Images and How to Use Them
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This is a listing free image resources to use on your lens or website. Also, it includes several detailed How-To sections on how to add the necessary HTML to control and enhance the images in your pages (or lenses). Examples included. If you do fi...
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The Stylish Squid - Cool Graphics To Deck Out Your Lens!
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Does your lens need a little extra something? Find it here at The Stylish Squid! Here you will find some of the most original banner and divider graphics tailored specifically for the Squidoo Community. It may be just the push you need to make your...
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Lens Candy - Free Squidoo Graphics for the Style Conscious Lens Master
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Hello and thanks for visiting this lens. I know there are quite a few graphic resource lenses out there but, hey when it comes to style, there can never be too much choice. So here's my contribution :) So far, I've included three sets of squidoo gra...
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Squid Art Too
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It seems as though the SquidArt has grown so much, that another lens was needed! In keeping with the SquidArt spirit, I hope you enjoy some of the characters below. To use these images, please see the fine print at the end. In addition to the origin...
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Squid Art
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After I wrote my lens entitled Squidoo for fun and non-profit, I decided that I had so much fun creating some of the Squidoodles and other graphics, that I would start a collection of them. I'll add to them as I go, but feel free to offer suggestions...
Lens Of The Day!
Take a look at these great lenses that have been chosen as the Lens Of The Day. There are some lensmasters who have been working diligently away making lens after great lens who haven't received this honor.
- The thanks giving project
- A simple thank you can go a long way in making someone's day a little brighter. Here's your chance. So says the Big Squid himself, Seth Godin.
- Turkey's Last Stand: Countdown to Thanksgiving
- Poor Old Tom the Turkey's Last Stand.
- Twilight Movie Reviews by Fans & Foes
- Lensmaster enslavedbyfaeries' excellent Monkeybrain debate lens about the new movie Twilight.
- Say Something Nice
- Offering a compliment is a simple skill that can change the way you view yourself and the world around you. Great lens from ElizabethJeanAllen.
- Poetry is a Performance Art
- 0ctavias0fferings says "A poem can change your life."
Yeah, But How Do I Make Money Online?
You can make some money with Squidoo lenses and you need to know that there is no magic formula that lets you write up a lens and presto your bank account suddenly is bulging with loot. There's work involved.
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Affiliate Business Made Easy
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A small little page about jpetals, stcajo (business partner) and their affiliate business addiction! You know the story... blah blah blah, scam after scam... yadda yadda.. now we make millions. LMBO! Not quite, but now my "work day" is spent in my li...
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Learn Affiliate Marketing : How I Made $7,219 Online in My First 59 Days
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Want to Learn How I Made $7,219 Online in My First 59 Days and now milk the affiliate cash cow for over $700/day?! With no prior experience I made $7,219 in my first 59 days affiliate marketing and currently average over $700/day! Would you believe I...
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How to Monetize Your Website or Blog
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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.
I Have A Blog Where I Ramble On About Squidoo Called Squidoo Land
I've been doing a blog called Squidoo Land almost from the moment I signed up. It's not on par with Captain Squid's or Pot Pit Girl's excellent blogs, but I have some readers and I post to it almost every day. Stop by for a peek into my mind. Uh, no, you probably don't want to go there. Just stop by for some somewhat interesting musings from your truly.
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What Are Your Favorite Lenses?
I wish I could add a lot more lenses to this directory of my favorites. There are sooo many other great ones. Maybe a 2nd lens: "My 2nd Most Favorites..." Nah, that sounds like they don't measure up and a lot of them really do measure up big-time.
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- jpetals jpetals Mar 2, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
- Wow, I just found your lens and was absolutely flattened when I saw my lens listed here amongst all the other great lenses. Thank you kindly for the shout out, I worked hard on it and it's wonderful that you recognized it. Ok... enough enough. I love your lens and think you do a great job of showcasing what you can do with Squidoo lenses. Five stars!
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse Jan 14, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
- What a great collection of lenses. Congratulations and Angel Blessings to you - welcome to the Giant Squid family
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 30, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
- Cool idea. I like alot of your choices.
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Take A Look At This Motley Group!
Everybody Here Helps Me Become A Better Squidoo Lensmaster
I thought I'd put together a picture of a small group of the lensmasters who have given me inspiration to do better at Squidoo since I first joined up. It sorta grew to this large shot of some of the Squids who have given me a push to do better, and they still do!
I wish I had a bigger canvas so I could include more of the great lensmasters at Squidoo. If I left you out, I want you to know that I still value your contributions to Squidoo and I'll talk with you over at Squidu soon. See how many you recognize!
A Little Self-Promotion Never Hurt Anyone
Okay, I have some lenses that I've made that I'd like you to check out. They may not be up to the high standard set by the ones I've highlighted above, but they're mine and I like them. Let me now what you think.-
Sidney Crosby
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Sidney Crosby is fast proving that he can play with the big boys in the NHL. Hockey's heir apparent to Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, Sid the Kid continues to improve season over season, scoring highlight goals while leading his youthful Pittsburgh...
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Squidoo and Lens Making
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This shows my journey from newbie to Giant Squid. I have been on Squidoo for only a short time now but I've been able to put together almost 150 lenses and this lens will show my progress up the ranks. Becoming a Giant Squid didn't happen overnight...
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Hockey World Headquarters
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Hockey World This group accepts All The Best hockey lenses. If you have a lens about your favorite player or team, sign up and you'll be featured. We are looking for more lenses about the Olympic hockey teams and while you're at it, why not do a l...
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Family Tree Climber
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Family history research should be fun and FREE. You'll find some interesting family history stories on this lens which I hope will point out some good genealogy sources and records in the USA and Canada as well as hopefully help with your research in...
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