I finally got around to updating my Advanced CSS lens, where I used to post crazy “lab experiments” in CSS. Now I’ve reorganized it and made it more dignified (slightly), and added all the tricks I tend to use most on my lenses: rounded corners, background-images for paragraphs, captions under aligned images, drop caps, dramatic [...]
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Controversies & Hoaxes Draw Web Traffic
My Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites From Space lens has existed for a month, and looks to be a long-term second-tier lens with 50 visitors a week and a fair number of clicks. Those two factors will help this lens maintain its lensrank. Here’s the steps I took to make this effective lens. 1) [...]
Some Squidoo Tutorials: Navigation Aids
Since my lenses tend to be looooong, I tend to develop various strategies to help folks navigate them. I like little inset tables of contents, “shortcuts” that jump to relevant parts of the page, or navigator bars. So I was working on a Fancy Tables of Contents tutorial collecting my various ways of creating tables [...]