Images

Photos and Images For More Traffic
The Benefits Of A Hippo Image
I've been into blogging for a couple of years now and, almost by accident, found out about the power of images and photos on blogs - and I suspect on Squidoo lenses as well. For example: (1) They can bring you lots of traffic. As you will see read later, on one of my blogs photos brought me over 435,000 referrals from search engines in one year, with a blog starting from blank. (2) They help illustrate any point or subject you are writing about . (3) They look nice! They brighten up a page...

Searching For Images
How to Find Images for Your Lenses
Are you having trouble finding images to use in your lenses? Are you having to resort to hastily scribbled doodles and photos of yourself with no make-up and tangled hair? Worry no longer! This lens is going to tell you everything you need to know about getting images for your lens without getting a cease and desist letter or being taken to court! Because we don't want to upset Artists and Photographers and Graphic Designers, do we? Especially not if they've got good lawyers. We'll also b...

How to make a banner for your website or myspace
Making a banner on your own pc
I make my own banners because I just don't want any text at the bottom that detracts from my message. Making a banner on your own computer really isn't that hard, if you know your way around an image editing program. What you need to make a banner on your PC at home To make a banner like that I need three things: An image that sets the tone An image editor. I used the open source (free) image editor GIMP. Text to use. In this case a quote

Squidoo Tips - How to Upload an Image from your Computer
Welcome to my Squidoo Tips
This Squidoo Tips Lens will show you how to upload an image direct from your computer (harddrive) to your Squidoo lens. Not everyone wants to host their images online. So let's learn how to upload your picture from your computer. A couple of clicks and you'll be finished! Lens created on Feb 17, 2009 Last updated on February 25, 2011

Storing images in Squidoo
How to put images into your lens
This lens came about because I wanted to put some extra pictures into my lenses. There are several existing how-to lenses that explain what to do, but they all require that the images be hosted somewhere else. As you can see from this module, I've got around that problem by hosting the images I want stored on a lens. In this case, The small images in the text are taken from the large images on the left and in the following module. I wanted to be able to store images somewhere on Squidoo for ...