Your friendly neighborhood graphic editing tool will have a border or ‘stroke‘ ability as it is called in Photoshop. I have been experimenting with using custom borders on several of my lenses, using the same orange color which dominates the Squidoo template. The exact number of the shade is: #FF9900.
I think that adding an orange […]

The Yahoo! News RSS feed is the best kept secret so far for Squidoo’s RSS module. The feed looks amazing when translated, as opposed to Google News which looks absolutely terrible. The articles don’t double up, and the 100 word excerpts look like you painstakingly wrote them yourself. 
The best part is yet to come - the feeds are completely customizable. You can […]

I have it on good authority, and through a lot of trial and error, that one of the main facets of Squidoo’s lens rank system is based on outgoing links. One of the few places you can create custom A Tag links is within the text module. The text module is probably my favorite, because you […]

If you’re using a photo for your intro, or in a text module, I’ve found that editing the graphic so it has a main subject on a white background looks really good within the Squidoo design. Depending on your search, Google images will often return many pre-made examples. So look for images that have white […]

Heath Row asked if I’d do an interview with him a couple weeks back to be featured in SquidU’s lensmaster profile section. Flattered, I readily agreed and it was recently posted. Thanks Heath, that was a lot of fun. Have a read if you’d like, and here’s hoping we all get added to that section […]

One thing I decided early on in my Squidooing, was to be careful about where I place any Amazon lenses and how long I make them. I’ve sold 2 sets of DVDs in the last week, so I must be doing something right. See if you agree:

First of all, keep your Amazon modules short. If […]