Switching Gears
Over the past month I was fairly focused on new lens development. My most recent lens was about green cell phones; the environmentally friendly kind. It highlights the few models which are constructed of biodegradable or recycled content as well as some of the ones which can be powered by alternative energy sources. My traffic has bumped up on a couple of lenses but overall it’s been pretty stagnate. I think it’s time to shift gears a bit.
I need to do a little more promotion, something to boost traffic. I’ve been good about keeping up with my tech blog but article writing, forum participation, and so forth have been minimal for weeks. I started out this morning by adding a related page on Hubpages but got distracted when I saw the new themes on Squidoo. Of course, when I first saw them they were a mess this morning. It was a almost impossible to ignore how jumbled my pages looked and not feel totally overwhelmed. OMG, I now had 203 lenses to go through and fix? Well, luckily support had it under control and straightened things out with no intervention needed on my part. The only problem I see now, is that my text no longer wraps around some of my images as I had it, and on lenses where I had the images staggered they are all now aligned on the left. Not sure what I’m going to be able to do with that. I’m not an HTML expert. It’s not a huge problem but it’s less visually appealing I think. The new themes on the other hand look pretty nice, it’s good to finally have a little control over the appearance of the lens.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:57 am
This post makes me think I had better go check some of my lenses…..
June 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I noticed that problem with the images – I had some problems before the new changes, but they just looked so much worse after the new themes were introduced.
A big problem for Lensmasters is that the Workshop currently appears to be based on the old Lens style, so things may look right when you work on them, but then appear sightly different on the published Lens.
Maybe they’ll work on that issue after they settle all the little problems with the new implementation.
When I was looking at people’s Lenses, I was so struck by the appearance problems related to the custom HTML that many Lensmasters are using, I actually used that as the topic of Advanced HTML For Borders & Backgrounds On Squidoo, which was a Lens I didn’t even plan on making.
June 15th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
i’ll check out your new lens, sounds like a great topic. I have noticed some of the problems I mentioned before have resolved luckily.