Below that are lenses and websites I found myself consulting again and again when building my own Squidoo lenses. I will be editing these after Squidoo goes POOF to make this into a more general online writing, blogging, and web design tool.
Articles About the Move
Other Places to Move Your Stuff
Not a Complete List, but if you are looking for alternatives to HubPages, here's a few.
Wizzley
Infobarrel (Review and Comparison/Last Half of Page)
BubbleNews
Blogger (Tutorial on Transfering Squidoo Lenses There)
HTML and CSS Help for Squidoo Lenses
- Using Basic HTML in Squidoo lenses
- Includes the basics like:
Making a Hyperlink
Making An Email Link
Forcing a Line Break
Inserting Images
How can I make a clickable icon, button, picture or banner?
Wrapping Text Around An Image
Bold and Italics
Colors
Underlining
Removing the underline from Hyperlinks
Centering text and images in your module - HTML for Photos: A Tutorial for the Semi-Clueless
- This lens has just about everything you'll need to know about images and the code to put them where you want, size them how you want, link them where you want, etc.
- Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo
- This has a lot of the same photo tips as the link above, and also has tables.
- Advanced HTML for Squidoo
- Some more advanced html like strike-through, quoting, superscript, subscript, bulleted lists, and more.
- Squidoo CSS: multi-column text
- Make multiple columns in your modules. (OK, if you've browsed my lenses you'll know I haven't actually consulted this yet...but it's something I'd like to try).
- Tool for Making HTML Viewable
- If you want to write a tutorial where you need to show HTML, this page helps you code it so that people can actually read the HTML (or other code).
- Backgrounds and Borders
- Backgrounds and borders are something you should use sparingly, IMHO. But sometimes they can be really helpful for making things stand out.
- Find Free Graphics Here
Finding Help on Other Squidoo Topics
Here's a few good places to look.
- SquidU: The Lensmaster Lounge
- The Squidoo forums are a great place to ask other lensmasters for help.
- Official Squidoo Lenses
- Find lenses about Squidoo topics by the official Squidteam (Squidoo Employees).
- Squidoo Community
- A good place to find other Squidoo related lenses.
Squid Rules
- Squid Don'ts Content Policy
- What content is off-limits
- Link Restrictions
- You can only have 9 links to the same site, unless they are whitelisted. See whitelisted sites here.