Hi there

I have some very helpful lenses in my Squidoo Help Libarry Lens (link is below)

There is a wide variety of topics, but does include basic HTML to more advanced by some very terrific lensmasters

Be sure to bookmark them so you can refer to them later too!

Shankspony wrote:

Tried to open my lens in an html editor, but could not.

Woah, that's a new one!

Don't do that. You can open up a lens from anywhere you can connect to the internet by logging in and editing.

To add links you need to put in the hyperlink HTML. You can find it here: www.squidoo.com/basichtml

it is not recommended (and always won't work properly) if you use other editors and applications, just stick to Squidoo's modules and give yourself few minutes to read and learn about each module and how to edit the HTML you need. Below two links are very helpful lenses, the first one is so basic while the other is a bit more advanced, hope you find them useful:

http://www.squidoo.com/HTMLtricks

http://www.squidoo.com/htmlsquid

Best -

Word inserts special quotes (the ones on either side of the quoted text face opposite directions) which are special characters instead of quotes that browsers can recognize.  Try replacing the quotes in the Squidoo edit box and, assuming the rest of the code is correct, that should solve your problem.  Using Notepad or Google Docs for composition should solve your problem.  (Also, note that you can't use HTML in module titles or subtitles.)

Most necessary tips have been given at this point One other thing that sometimes goes wrong when entering HTML is that you get hidden line breaks. in the code, which will effectively hide the code from the finished lens. It's fixed by replacing the linebreak with a space. (delete > space).

My lens on CSS doesn't help much with your specific question, but will give you tips on how to make your lens more beautiful once you've mastered the basics of HTML: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-css