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Jazzing Up Your Lenses With Some Simple Images

I have a set of images I pretty much use on each lens I make. You may well recognize some of them. One of them is the RSS image you see just to the right here. The ball. It’s a cool looking RSS image, don’t you think?

So what do I do with it? Simple. Every [...]

10Aug2008 | MrLewisSmile | 4 comments | Continued
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Coolest little squidlet ever

The super-genius thefluffanutta, creator of SquidUtils.com, has just created something else.
The things he makes are always easy to understand, simple to use, and really really cool.
And one of his latest creations is a nice little image you can put on your blog/lens/website that will display how many people are in your Squidoo fan club.
Here is [...]

4Jul2008 | MrLewisSmile | 8 comments | Continued
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HubPages – Better than Squidoo?

Hello dear reader. You look lovely today.
Question: Are you a member of HubPages?
You will surely by now have heard of HubPages.
Surely.
If not, get on over to JoinHubPages.com and sign up! HubPages is a site very much like Squidoo. But with enough differences to be able to tell they are not trying to be or [...]

19May2008 | MrLewisSmile | 9 comments | Continued
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HOW (and WHY) to start a blog for your lenses!

Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off.
Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too…
So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?”
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FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG?
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Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE!
It is extremely difficult now to do a search [...]

1May2008 | MrLewisSmile | 22 comments | Continued
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How To Add An Opt-In Form To Your Lens (updated)

From one of my lenses I built a newsletter autoresponder list of over 1200 people in about 3 months, making sales of over $3000. Just by adding a simple piece of code to one of the modules on the lens. Called an Iframe. I was rather pleased with myself.
You may recall coming across the [...]

6Oct2007 | MrLewisSmile | 7 comments | Continued
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New Guestbook Image

I just made an image that I’m now using on the lenses I’m making for BuildMyLens.com, and I thought you might want to use it too. So there it is below. I used a really cool logo creator I just bought and I made a few for some different things.
The logo I made is [...]

11Aug2007 | MrLewisSmile | 10 comments | Continued
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Making Your Lens Pics Look AMAZING

I’ve made a lens about this, with the same title, but I’m putting it here to so it’s easy to find.
Basically, an image with straight edges looks rubbish on your lens, just like the tiger on the left below. It looks like you’ve just plonked an image there because you had to.
Well now you can [...]

19Jun2007 | MrLewisSmile | 13 comments | Continued
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How to insert an image (and have text wrap around it)

You know you can add an image to your lens using a normal text module? Did you know you can embed an image into the module without that upload feature? On the left side of the module?
Click here to see an example.
To embed an image into the module just like the one you [...]

11Jun2007 | MrLewisSmile | 7 comments | Continued
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How To Add A Banner To Your Lens

Have you seen a lens with a banner in one of the modules?
Although the effectiveness of banner ads has fallen to an all time low (with text links taking the lead), you may have a banner you just REALLY want to display.
Whatever the reason, here is how to insert a banner ad into a Text [...]

10Jun2007 | MrLewisSmile | 8 comments | Continued