Squidoo Tip Toolbox: ScribeFire ignites your Text
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One of the most common things you see on Squidoo that doesn’t work effectively are big giant boxes and paragraphs of text. These immediately cause people to unfocus their eyes and move on to the next page.
Other times you’ll notice how people will have ordered lists, numbered lists, block quotes, bold, italic, and more scattered through all of their modules (not just the introduction or the text/write module). This usually garners a big 5 stars from me, as it is done so rarely.
Why is text rarely dressed up well?
People don’t know HTML. They don’t really want to learn it. You want to make lenses, market them and make money. You may also not be technically oriented and want to do things but it’s just not where your talents lie. That’s fine. Staring at HTML code will make anyone cross-eyed. There’s got to be a better solution…. oh wait, there is.
The Solution?
Download Scribefire. This Firefox Plugin (See? I told you that you’d need Firefox….)
This nifty little plugin provides a way for you to create text with all the formatting and none of the hassle. A tiny orange icon will be on the bottom bar of your browser after you install it. Click this orange square and a box will pop up with the ability to type text in and edit it using easy buttons (like Word) to get what you need.
One click toggles you over to the code that you need to copy into any description box in Squidoo. Ta-Daaaaa! No more typing HTML code again.
Captain’s Secret: If you have your own website or blog, set up the FTP settings for scribefire and you can begin uploading and incorporating pictures in seconds.
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Yhank you for yopur information.
I installed Sctibfire, but where is it and how used?
Can’t find it on my Toolbar but shows as addon in add-on section.
Thank you for your help
Chuck,
If you look at the very bottom of your firefox browser there is an orange square in the bottom right hand corner. Click that and it opens Scribefire and you are all set!
-The Captain
Hi Captain ,
Scribfire looks like great stuff !
But I have problem doing big and bold text in my Squidoo site . It is BIG and BOLD in the SF pad , but I copy the code into squidoo it become bold only and normal text size .
What did I do wrong ? Or SF not properly installed ?
THANKS.
go check out Glen’s excellent lenses:
http://www.squidoo.com/basichtml
http://www.squidoo.com/advancedhtml
in order to change font sizes you need to use slightly different HTML within squidoo. Glen’s got most of it laid out there.
Thanks Captain . Got the code to do big font and lots of other great stuffs too !!
Why Do I need Scribfire ?
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Another great post with loads of useful info. I’ve downloaded ScribeFire and will test it tomorrow but I’m also coming back to your blog to learn even more - your insights are priceless - thank you! 
Cap’n, Thanks for this little tip. I have been fighting with Squidoo for the last 3 days over the html. Weird thing is, I have scribefire. I just didn’t hit this little brain to use it for this problem. Thanks again for the heads up!
LenBuilder
I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am that you share your knowledge. What an excellent lens. Man…I hope I don’t scare all your readers haha. Thank you.
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Received your message my friend and have added your RSS Feed to my lens. You are a gem!
Yep…I am off to get ScribeFire as soon as I am done here.
Enjoy!
P.S: Your APSense Business Center is most excellent. All the best.
Lawrence