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Basic HTML for Squidoo (LensRank: 67) 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...

Getting Started With Squidoo (LensRank: 115) Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and...

HTML Borders Backgrounds (LensRank: 122) Have you seen sharp looking lenses formatted with HTML borders and backgrounds and wished you could do the same? There are already plenty of EXCELLENT how-to-HTML lenses available, so I thought I'd do something a little different. There are two main...

Lens Workshop Addon for Firefox (LensRank: 127) 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...

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one) (LensRank: 138) 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...

Borders and Dividers for use on Squidoo (LensRank: 191) 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...

Free Images and How to Use Them (LensRank: 270) 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...

Angels Unaware (LensRank: 328) These flowers are called angel trumpets.  Aren't they beautiful?  They are dramatic too.  This lens serves as my angel trumpet to call attention to the great lenses I have found.  Angels are message bearers so this is my messa...

bdkz's Best Squidoo Tips (LensRank: 345) Welcome! I'm Bonnie, lensmaster bdkz. I'm a Giant Squid & RocketMoms Organizer here on Squidoo. I have created over 400 lenses, been "Lens of the Day" twice and have had 15 of my lens in the Top 100. I have been with Squidoo fo...

Squid Angel -- Blessings to YOU! (LensRank: 360) 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 sc...

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens (LensRank: 560) 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...

Halloween Photo Effects (LensRank: 564) Sit for a spell while I bewitch you with my haunting graphics. All of these were made using various photo effects that are available online - for free! They are all simple to use, even for beginners. Happy Haunting! Make Your Own

Free Ping Services (LensRank: 587) Pinging your website, blog or feed is a great Free way to get traffic. Here is a list of sites that offer ping service for you to use. Simply submit your your site or feed to these ping services when you update or add new content. You will also fin...

Squidoo Help Center | Squidoo FAQ with PotPieGirl (LensRank: 702) Learning how to use Squidoo? Having problems? Can Google find your lens? Why isn't your Squidoo lens getting indexed by Google? Why doesn't Google send traffic to your lens? How the heck do you make a Squidoo lens, or optimize one? SOOO many...

Borders Dividers and Separators (LensRank: 936) I love to use borders, dividers and separators to dress up my lenses. Borders can break up long blocks of text to make your lens more readable. They can add a splash of color and some visual interest. I have three lenses of borders, dividers and sep...

Are You a Squidoo Nobody? How to Become a Squidoo Somebody in 6 Easy Lessons (LensRank: 1,005) 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...

Have you been Blessed by The Party Animal? A Squid Angel (LensRank: 1,020) I was so excited to find out that I had received my very own set of Angel Wings and had been chosen to be a Squid Angel. Being my head is always in the clouds anyway it was nice to know I would now have wings to now guide me around. I added the Halo...

Fun Photo Effects (LensRank: 1,037) Finding unique images that can be used on your website is not always an easy task. For the novice webmaster; it can be a nightmare trying to understand the dynamics behind copyright issues. One of the easiest ways to get around this is to use your...

HTML Tips for Color (LensRank: 1,048) 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...

Browser Toolbar for Squidoo (LensRank: 1,117) 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...

The Chaotic Good Angel (LensRank: 1,165) Conventional wisdom and social norms are sometimes obstacles. A character who is aligned as chaotic good will go around these obstructions in pursuit of that which is right. Elevating and protecting what is right and converting that which is wrong....

Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic (LensRank: 1,243) Welcome to Part II of Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens Found!  This tutorial focuses on building web traffic with social networking. I'll also recommend some simple tools to improve your lens, so that visitors stick around! If yo...

Love This Lens Widget (LensRank: 1,292) 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...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo (LensRank: 1,471) 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...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides (LensRank: 1,496) 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...

The Joy of Squidoo (LensRank: 1,532)   Be part of the Squidoo community. Squidoo is great place to share your website, shopping site, affiliate marketing (no spam), or your knowledge on any subject. It is the best place to get noticed. If you don’t know what Squidoo is...then...

Blessed by an Angel (LensRank: 1,537) As you may heard, I've became Squid Angel. Invitation to become an Angel came to me as pleasant surprise and I'm very grateful to Squidoo HQ to find my work here, on Squidoo, worthy of such a honor. But, this lens is less about my role as an angel (...

Carnival of Squid: November 2009 (LensRank: 1,604) The Carnival of Squid highlights the best lenses on a specific topic for the day. I'm looking for your best submissions and for you to vote for your favorites. The top vote getters will be featured on the Carnival blog each week, along with a Bar...

Christmas Photo Effects (LensRank: 1,627) With Photo Effects, it has never been easier to create one of a kind images which can then be used on your holiday pages. Or use your imagination and come up with another use for them. Most of these are pretty straight-forward when it comes to creat...

How To Add Amazon Product Links (LensRank: 1,642) It used to be possible to embed the official Amazon Product Links into a lens (if you were an Amazon Associate). However, since the support for IFrames was withdrawn from Squidoo, this is no longer an option. At SQUIDUtils.com there is a special to...

Making Great Holiday Lenses (LensRank: 1,668) 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...