I think that to date, the Squidoo Museum is my best lens as far as presentation, although the Fancy Table of Contents lens comes close. I’d like to talk about how I put together the Squidoo Museum. It demonstrates everything I know about graphics, color, fonts, and CSS.
Posts Tagged ‘lens-design’
Advanced CSS Tricks and Tips: Borders and Backgrounds and Captions, Oh My!
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 [...]
Updating Squidoo Lenses: Staying Fresh
After 60 (?) days, a lens loses lensrank because it’s not fresh. Also, Google rewards frequently updated content. These are two separate things, but they go together. What are your techniques for keeping lenses fresh? Here’s some of mine. Quick Fix — do one of the following While watching TV, I’ll sort my dashboard by [...]
Squidoo Graphics: Colors, Themes, Black Box Tips
I’ve been thinking. Try as I might, I’m a journeyman when it comes to Squidoo SEO: I have the basic techniques down, I know what I’m doing, but I’ve got the online equivalent of an undergraduate college degree rather than a PhD. Whereas I’ve been doing computer graphics and layout since 1980, HTML since 1993, [...]
Updates to Squidoo Modules List
There have been a few recent modules added to the Squidoo module browser. They’re listed under “new” at the bottom, but haven’t been filed under any category, so the only way to find them is to click “Browse all modules” and then search for them by name. They are: iTunes – earn commission, feature iTunes [...]
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) [...]
Lens Review: EditorDave’s Lens on Guam
I wasn’t planning to do lens reviews on this blog, but spouting about my own stuff all the time could get dreary. So why not use someone else’s lens as an example of a good use of Squidoo? When you find a lens you like, ask yourself: WHY do you like it? You can get [...]