Victoria Neely’s Squidoo Diary

Tracking My Progress on Squidoo…

Archive for August, 2008

» Squidoo Tip #57 - Making Your Avatar Stand Out in a Sea of Other Avatars

As I glanced at the fan club section on my lensmaster page, I noticed that there were certain avatars that stood out more than others. Let me give you an example:

I don’t know about you, but my eye is immediately drawn to kab’s avatar (3 boxes down, 4 boxes right). Her avatar uses bright primary [...]

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» Fun with Silly Symphonies

Although I disappeared for a while, I suppose I wasn’t entirely idle. I created several lenses dedicated to some of Disney’s Silly Symphony cartoons. They were partly inspired by the lyrics lens format… which is somewhat fitting, since music is a dominating force in many of the Silly Symphony cartoons. Especially the early ones.
What makes [...]

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» Squidoo Tip #56: Submit Bug Reports

Every once in a while, a nasty little bug will pop up when you’re editing a lens. Sometimes a module will go screwy and regurgitate all your input, and sometimes lenses get wiped out completely. (Had that happen at least twice.)
When anything weird like that happens, it’s best to send in a bug report.
Sounds obvious, [...]

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» I’m Still Alive

How time flies. I just about dropped off the face of the earth for a while… I’ve neglected various blogs (including this one), my Squidoo lenses, etc. I lost my motivation somewhere between “real life” stuff and tackling too many online projects at once.
What happens then? In my case, you end up looking at this [...]

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