Squidoo Resources: How to create a table

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Now one of the major things to know is unlike a blog where you simply type and click a few things you will have to know some HTML coding. Squidoo seems to strip table codes when they are saved. So all you get is a mess not a neat table. That was my issue-- getting tables to show up correctly. I used them mainly for images. First of all upload your images somewhere (if they aren't already online) so that you have an image URL (right click your image in the browser click copy image location).

These two pages here made things a heck lot easier for me. This first one is for generating tables for myspace but it worked out fine for me. FreeCodeSource.Com Table Generator
 Make the table to your specifications... click edit and enter the coding for a linkable image (minus the space before a and img.
<  a href="YOUR LINK HERE"><  img src="IMAGE SOURCE HERE" width="32" height="32">

Do the above minus the spaces. A href is what will make your image clickable. Now write/edit this same code for every image that you want to link somewhere and copy/paste it into the EDIT box.

After this you should get a table to your liking. Be sure to click update table when you are done. Select the code and open a new tab open: Table Generator for Squidoo Lenses
Under select data format click "HTML
code block" and paste your code. Under table style select none, header, left. You can select what you want to achieve the result you need. However, this is what gave me the best result. Click get HTML code. IF like me you get a bluish type gap between the images and don't want it there do the following.


On your SQUIDOO lens paste the code you ended up with and see the result. In order to change it to your liking simply change this code (again minus the space in the beginning:
<  p style="float:left;width:290px;background:#ddf;margin:0 -1px -1px 0;padding:1px">

See that 290px? Reduce that number to 230 (for example). Save and see what you get. Continue gradually reducing it till the "gap" is gone.

This looks daunting.. but with a bit of patience the result is well worth it. People use clickable images on squidoo to link to their products, or a related website. I hope you found this informative.