Friday, March 7, 2014

A Squidoo Toolbox

Squidoo is going away *gulp*...I'm leaving the links up for now and adding a few on moving your content>

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

Can Squidoo Do This?  (And InfoBarrel Review/Comparison)


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.







2 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing this list. I have been wanting to learn more about designs like this. Now I have a wonderful place to stop by.

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  2. excellent! putting this into favorites in my squidoo folder.

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