A quick update

It's mainly lens updates at the moment, although with 200 lenses this is going to take a while. A few things lensmasters might want to watch out for:

The new templates, which were amended again this week for the advertising banners, have affected layout more seriously than I realised. For anyone who uses floats or complex layouts you might want to check yours.

More productively, after stumbling over a new trick with Zazzle that lets you embed zazzle products without using the Zazzle module (as long as you are an affiliate), I'm running back through my lenses updating them. The Halifax Bomber page has gained a cut-away design of the aircraft, and I'm looking for a few more for some of the other planes.

The lens that took the most work so far was The Untouchables. Not just a few poster problems but wikipedia refusing to pull in, the layout broken and worse. I've now fixed all of this, but it took a good few hours.

A purple star

I got another purple star, this time for The Untouchables, to make a total of four. I'm nowhere near the top ranks in terms of number of stars, but I think I'm doing pretty well.

What's really funny is that immediately afterwards, two squidoo users visited the lens and rated it one star! Must be Al Capone fans...

#140 Eliot Ness
http://www.squidoo.com/EliotNess
An unfinished Squidwho lens on Eliot Ness - it's trying to find a lens image I am happy with.

A Purple star for Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84 just got a purple star!

The story of possibly the best known Atlantic convoy in World War Two, and the heroism of the merchant navy sailors when they were ambushed by the Admiral Scheer was a tricky one to write. A lot of the sources contradict each other, e.g. Wikipedia says there were 37 ships in the convoy while the manifest says thirty eight and their escort. A trip to the Imperial War museum was necessary to resolve some of the differences.


Also, here's my halfbuilt site about Tim and the Hidden People. Please ignore the background photo - after a complete systems crash it's only there until I can recover the real one.

A second purple star!

Madeira Wine just earned my second purple star!

And Longitude just got made Lens of the Month at the British Literature group!

A Purple Star Award!

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Chronometer for Finding Longitude
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A very quick update: my lens Longitude just got a purple star award! Six purple stars are awarded each week for lens quality - there's more about the award on squidoo.

My first purple star, and I am absolutely delighted!

(and since I've got the basic framework for the madeira lenses up, I'm now on 114 lenses towards my target of 150.)