Use Squidoo to Optimize Web 2.0 Website Tutorials - 3

Hi all, nice to see you again. You must be bothered by the ugly lens which has been set up by us in last tutorial,Use Squidoo to Optimize Web 2.0 Website Tutorials - 2. And let us review this cleanlens:

 

Please don't worry, our job is to make it more beautiful and useful. OK, now let's go!

The first job is to study what is the module. It seems as if it is very advanced and complex when you first hear of the module. In fact, it is very ordinary in your life. In the web 2.0  period, you may set up your own blog or other kind of homepage website. If you have registered your account and obtained the page model, you will find out that you should edit the text, upload your picture, change the background music and so on, only because the default modules are ugly or weak. The text edit area, picture shown software, background music player are all modules. These modules usually are provided by software or website itself, moreover, we can add some modules by ourselves.

In this tutorial, we only edit the default modules which are provided by the Squidoo.com. Now let me introduce the modules step by step.

Step 1 : Edit the first and most important module,which is named "Introduction, contents & discovery tool". You will introduce the total information of your lens, so you should make it attractive and useful. Observe this module and click the orange edit button on the top right corner. Then you will see this edit page:
 

You will see three Tabs : Intro Text, Table of Contents, Discovery Tool. Intro Text tab makes you to edit title, description and picture of your lens. Table of Contents tab makes you to choose whether turn on or off your modules in order to increase your click and revenue. Discovery Tool tab makes you to choose whether turn or off your discovery tool in order to find more great lenses and add some related lenses into your lens.

Now you can edit the title and description of your lens. It's very easy, but please remember to choose an attractive title for your lens. When others have never browsed your lens, it will be the first impression of your website and products. You should also add a proper image for your lens just like this page:
 

Click the UPLOAD PHOTO button and upload the images in your folder. PLEASE BE CAREFUL, the format of these images are only .jpg or .gif, the common .png format is not allowed. Then you can preview the picture at once, if you dislike it, delete it by clicking the REMOVE PHOTO button.

Click the Save button you can turn off this tab and turn on the other tabs. For example, just like this page:
 

In the Table of Contents lab, you are allowed to choose to turn on or off modules in order to make people to explore your page and bring more click and revenue. The default choice is off, but we should turn it on and select all modules in the table of contents. Click save button and turn on the last tab : Discovery Tool.
 

The default choice is turn on the discovery tool in order to find more great lenses, we did not modify it. Then you will ask to add your 3 favorite related lenses. Maybe you feel it is too hard to find other related lenses. Now I will tell you how to find them easily and quickly.

Open the homepage of Squidoo.com , then you can enter the keywords of you own lens. For example, I will enter "iphone application" and click the Go! button. Choose your favorite lenses in the search result list and enter their suffix, click save button and then you will go to the step 2.
 

Step 2 : Add your blog to this lens. Click the Edit button and go to the edit page:
 

At first enter the title and subtitle of your blog, of course, some words description about your blog. Then enter the blog's URL and choose how many headlines would you like to show. The default choice is 3, and it means to show the latest 3 new blog articles. We don't need to be changed. Choose the frequency and visual HTML and keep the default choice. Then click the Save button, imagine what will you see?

 
But what does this question mark mean? It made me confused and puzzled. Do you know how to deal with this problem?
PLEASE WAIT FOR OUR NEW TUTORIAL : Use Squidoo to Optimize Web 2.0 Website Tutorials - 4. It's time to say goodbye.

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