Happy New Year!

By Mitch “New Year, Baby!” Keeler
Happy New Year!  What, what do you mean I am a day early?  Ah well, hope you all have a safe yet enjoyable night tonight, and your 2009 is ten times more Lunarful than 2008 was.  To help you count down the clock, here are some of the most popular [...]

Setup Your Lifestream with WordPress

By Mitch “Lifestreamer” Keeler
Have you jumped on every social networking bandwaggon to date?  I know I probably have.  Well, now there is a way to mash it all together (as long as you have a WordPress-powered web site).  The Lifestream plugin for WordPress displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it [...]

Reinventing the Suggestion Box

By Mitch “Loves Hearing Feedback” Keeler
Feedback is one of those things we love to hear, but is not always the easiest to make people give.  Sure, people have their opinions - but more times than not - if you are happy you usually keep you mouth shut.  One web service that is wanting to inspire [...]

Dataopedia - All You Need to Know

By Mitch “Loves Handy Resources” Keeler
I have found a resource that will tell you almost everything there is to know about any web site or domain out there today.  The name?  Dataopedia.com.

From Google PageRank to popularity on the various “best of the web” resources like Alexa, you get a view of how your domain is [...]

Free Watermark Tool for Your Images

By Mitch “Protecting Your Rights” Keeler
Want to put a watermark on your images, but have no idea on how to get started?  WatermarkTool.com is an online tool that will do it for you.  It is an online watermarking script that allows you to quickly and easily protect your images and photographs with a visible watermark.  [...]

SEO Friendly Images

By Mitch “SEO Friendly” Keeler
Your images are not often the first thing you think about when it comes to SEO or search engine optimization.  However, they do play an important part - so bet to make sure they are taken care of well.  If you have a WordPress powered blog - to take some of [...]

Look Back at WordPress’s Past

By Mitch “Mr. Archives” Keeler

I have not used WordPress since day one, but I have used it a long enough time to remember some of the classics.  Over on planetOzh that have a look back at the past five years of WordPress and the various styles.  Here is a quote:
With the recently launched WordPress 2.7, [...]

Billy Mays on Headline Writing

By Mitch “Billy Mays is an Icon” Keeler

If Billy Mays was here, he would tell you to write a good headline you have to use exiting words, sell yourself and yell a lot get your message across.
So I am here to share with you headline writing, the way I think Billy Mays would want you [...]

Follow the Web 2.0 Traffic Trends

By Mitch “Who is Following ME?” Keeler
In the world of Web 2.0 - you have so many different companies all fighting for attention.  With so many out there, it has become a pain to try to track them all.  Thankfully, somebody else has already done the hard work for us.
Movers 2.0 is the web site [...]

Minimize Sidebar in WordPress 2.7

By Mitch “Loving WordPress 2.7″ Keeler
I have a quick and easy tip for you this Monday morning.  Some people have complained that WordPress still have too cluttered of a feeling with the left sidebar replacing the old top sidebar.  Thankfully, for these people, the WordPress developers put in an extra user interface tweak you should [...]

20 Awesome Paint.Net Tutorials

By Mitch “Likes to Paint” Keeler
Want to do some learning this weekend?  Well I have for you 20 awesome Paint.net Tutorials that will take you from a paint.nobody to a Paint.net master!
Scotch Tape - Create a transparent segment of scotch tape
Kiosk Orbs - Learn how to make your own digital displays for products.  Might be [...]

Enhance your Blog with Yahoo! Shortcuts

By Mitch “Yahoooo!!!!” Keeler
We are all searching for ways to add more interactivity and tools to our own web sites, and Yahoo! has taken a step to making that a lot easier to do.  With the new Yahoo! Shortcuts, you can enhance your posts with media, links and information from them.
You can embed maps, [...]

Come Join Lunarpages on Facebook!

By Mitch “The Facebooker?” Keeler

Just noticed the other day that the Lunarpages Facebook group has over 100 members! Come join the rest of us - and have a little fun along the way…
+ Check out the Lunarpages Facebook Group!
I heard people who belonged to the group have had some of these side effects:

You [...]

10 Best Photo and Image WordPress Plugins

By Mitch “The Photo Bug” Keeler
If you are looking to add a few images to your blog, WordPress has more than a few plugins ready to help you get it done.  From image enhancements to full photo blogging power, here are the ten best photo and image related plugins for WordPress.
 NextGEN Gallery - NextGEN Gallery [...]

Easier Searching for the Web Hosting Wiki

By Mitch “Quick Tip” Keeler
Did you know that you can search the Lunarpages Web Hosting Support Wiki from your browser’s search box?

Full instructions on how to do so, can be found here:
http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Wiki_Search_Plugin
Think of this as just one more useful way to find the tutorials, information or facts you need from the Lunarpages support team. 
[...]

Marketing Your Brand on YouTube

By Mitch “Likes to Save a Buck” Keeler
When people ask me if they should use the free Online video streaming or hosting services out there or try to install one of the various YouTube-clone scripts out there, I will more times than not tell them to take advantage of the free tools out there. 
The [...]

25 Color Tools for Any Webmaster

By Mitch “The Human Coloring Book” Keeler
After checking out Kuler the other day, I started making a list of some of my other favorite Online tools for finding the right colors to use.  I do a lot of web design and digital art in my free time - so finding the right color to use [...]

Quick and Easy Online Surveys for Your Web Site

By Mitch “Mr Survey” Keeler

Coming up with a Link of the Day for the Lunarforums, I ran across a cool free online survey software site.  FluidSurveys makes it really simple to get a survey up and running quickly and easily.  Here are some of the features:

Drag and Drop Survey Creation
Export Results into SpreadSheet Software
View [...]

Top 10 Most Popular Support Topics

By Mitch “I’m Stats-man?” Keeler

The new Lunarpages Support Wiki has become a great tool for Lunarpages customers, and even myself, to look up everything from third-party scripts to cPanel help.  Think of it as a repository of all things Lunar (and hosting) related.  Here are ten of the most popular topics researched there in the [...]

5 Firefox Add-ons for Bloggers

By Mitch “Doesn’t Write About House Plants” Keeler
When it comes to blogging, there are a lot of tools out there to help you out, if you know where to look.  One proverbial rock that is worth uncovering is Firefox and the many blogging add-ons it provides.  Here are some of the best blog-related Firefox extensions [...]

Share Your Color Schemes

By Mitch “Colorful” Keeler
I love finding web sites that are all about the sharing and inspiration.  Maybe I have an inter-hippy in me somewhere that wants peace, love and happiness.  Adobe, those wonderful people who brought you such things as Photoshop, have a new color scheme sharing site that is worth checking out.

Kuler is [...]

Losing Stress by Bringing in a Web Site Sidekick

By Mitch “Has No Robin” Keeler
You don’t have to be a solo publisher when it comes to creating content Online.  I know too many people who seem to think that, “going it alone” is the best tactic when it comes to getting a web site out there, ready for the masses.
Where would Batman be [...]

10 Great Comment Plugins for WordPress

By Mitch “WordPress-er” Keeler
Comments are a very important part of your blog.  If you have a blog setup, you want to make sure you give your commenters a little something extra, to keep them coming back for more.  Here are ten great comment plugins for the WordPress publishing engine.

 WP Grins - WP Grins will provide [...]

Excellent FTP Client - CrossFTP

By Mitch “Return to the Wacky Names” Keeler
I am always looking for new and exciting programs to share with you, however with FTP clients - it is hard to find one that hasn’t been seen before.  I have a great love for FileZilla - however CrossFTP has recently been suggested to me - so I [...]

WordPress Theme Contest Series 3 WINNERS!

by Tiara Rea
I know everyone’s been waiting on pins and needles for the final decision, but let me stall just one more minute to say we really appreciated everyone’s efforts in this contest! All the WP themes submitted were just fantastic, and our staff had an incredibly difficult time choosing a top theme. They were [...]

Free WP Theme Contest - Voting Closed

by Tiara Rea
Hey everyone! Voting just closed for Series 3 of our WordPress Theme contest. We’ll be double checking the votes for honesty and accuracy and also casting some votes of our own here at Lunarpages.
We’ll be announcing the winners on October 22, 2008, so stay tuned! :)
[...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 10 Results!

by Tiara Rea
This is it, guys! Here’s the 10th finalist for our WordPress Theme Contest, Series 3!
NewBlue by BlogDesignStudio!

Congratulations BlogDesignStudio!
We’ll be posting the Top 15 free WordPress themes a bit later today, so look forward to that! You’ll have until October 20 to vote and then we will close it off to private staff voting [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - the 15 Best Free WordPress Themes!

by Tiara Rea
Okay, guys! It’s time for the BIG VOTE. Below you’ll find the 15 best free WordPress themes in the world, and it is your chance to vote to see who gets our faaabulous prizes. To remind you, here’s what we’re offering:
1st place - $1,000 and 5 Years Free Web Hosting! + exposure in [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 9 Results!

by Tiara Rea
Wow!! This is the FINAL WEEK of voting for the 3rd Series Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest! If you haven’t already submitted your free WordPress themes, you only have until Sunday night to do so, so get going! ;)
And now for this week’s winner. Congratulations…
Butterflies by n252

Great work as always, n252! You are [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 10!

by Tiara Rea
This is it, guys!!! Our final round of weekly voting before the BIG VOTE next week, when we’ll announce the Final 15 WordPress Themes that are up for the chance to win $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting, as well as a featured article in our Web Hosting Newsletter. Just make sure [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 8 Results!

by Tiara Rea
**Just a quick reminder, everyone! NEW ENTRY SUBMISSIONS CLOSE OCTOBER 12!! That means, you have less than 2 weeks to get your free WordPress themes submitted for your change to win $1,000 and 5 years free hosting! Make sure to get your themes in ASAP or you won’t be able to compete.**
Now, for [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 9!

by Tiara Rea
As stated in my previous post, remember to submit your free WordPress themes ASAP for your chance to win $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting!! Plus, your themes will be available to our 140,000+ customer base, design community, and will be featured in our Web Hosting Newsletter.
And now for Round 9’s top [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 7 Results!

by Tiara Rea
As you guys can tell, we had a lot of great designs this past week, but only one winner could be chosen this week, and that honor goes to…
Brown Stitch by SimplyWP!

Congrats, SimplyWP! Seems everyone loves your designs!
The new poll will be up as soon as possible - remember, keep submitting your themes [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 8!

by Tiara Rea
This contest will end in a couple weeks, so keep submitting these amazing themes for voting!! I can’t wait to help choose a winner. ;)
This week’s Top 5 Free WordPress Themes are:
Aurum Gold by Uncle Sha

Autumn by Arnold Orosa

Starlite Diva by SimplyWP

NT - The Childhood Of Eternity by Roger

SpringTime by n252

Round 8 Series [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 6 Results!

by Tiara Rea
Sorry for your wait on these results. If you haven’t noticed yet, check out Lunarpages.com to see why we’ve been so incredibly busy!! That said, here are the results from Round 6 that I tallied up this morning. ;)
Congratulations goes tooo….Fresh Editorial by Maruf Rahman!!

Everyone seemed to love this fresh look as a [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 7!

by Tiara Rea
Once again, sorry for the late results! Also, this is just a reminder that the WordPress Theme Design contest is now over halfway over! You now only have less than 1 month to turn in your Free WordPress Themes for the chance at $1,000 and 5 years free hosting! New entry submissions close [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 5 Results!

by Tiara Rea
Our votes have been counted and we have a clear winner for Round 5, though it was very close between several contestants all week! Congratulations…
Floral by n252

Great job, n252! Your designs are incredibly popular in Series 3 and we hope to see even more free WordPress themes to come. :)
[...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 6!

by Tiara Rea
WOW. We already have over 60 Free WordPress Themes for download!! Hopefully we will see hundreds by the end of this competition so that you guys will have a ton to choose from for your next WordPress website. ;)
Okay, onto the voting! Here are the top 5 themes for this week’s voting polls:
Sign [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 4 Results!

by Tiara Rea
One day late, we finally have the results for Round 4 of our WordPress Theme Design contest!
Floral Day by SimplyWP

Congratulations! This was an outstanding design that our staff enjoyed very, very much. :)
Remember to keep those Free WordPress Themes coming! The more you enter the more chances to win. And the new poll [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 5!

by Tiara Rea
Happy late Labor Day, designers! :) Hope everyone (at least here in America) had a nice, relaxing, looong weekend! But we’ve got to get back to business here at the WordPress Theme Design contest, so here are the top 5 finalists this week. Please choose your favorite and vote!
Esther by Patrick

Dreamplace by Dimitry

Floral [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 4!

by Tiara Rea
OMG I can’t believe it’s already round 4!! Next week is a holiday here in the US, so we may be slow getting the results posted, but we’ll try our best to have everything up on Monday for you guys.
Here’s round 4’s top 5 WordPress Themes!
CoolPress by Pitsanu Polsri

Floral Day by SimplyWP

Maple Leaf [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 3 Results!

by Tiara Rea
We got a huge response from Round 3 of this WordPress Theme Design contest! The votes have all been taken into consideration, and our winner iiiiis:
Styleicious by ThaSlayer!

Congratulations!!
© Lunarpages Web Hosting - $25 off Web Hosting! Coupon [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 3!

by Tiara Rea
Over the past week we’ve been flooded with more and more outstanding free WordPress themes, and we’re overwhelmed by this in such a good way! Thanks to everyone for participating and keep these cool themes coming - we’re having a blast seeing the design talent.
Okay, onto voting for Round 3!

TechnoGaming by Alexandr

9illustrations by [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 2 Results!

By Tiara Rea

The votes have been tallied and our round 1 winner for Series 3, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
MyBlog by n252

Congratulations again n252! Your themes are clearly crowd pleasers. :D
© Lunarpages Web Hosting - $25 [...]

WordPress Series 3 Design Contest - Round 1 Results!

By Tiara Rea

The votes have been tallied and our round 1 winner for Series 3, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
Pop Star by n252!

Congratulations! This design was such an amazing WordPress Theme!
© Lunarpages Web Hosting - $25 [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 2!

by Tiara Rea
The free WordPress themes thus far have been amazing, guys! Keep them coming! And remember to enter as many times as you want for your chance at $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting!
The Round 2 entries are as follows:
NT-Science of Appearances by Roger

Soft Green by Damien Allen

MyBlog by n252

The Glory of Action [...]

Vote for Your WordPress Themes Easily!

by Tiara Rea
For those of you entering our WordPress Theme Design Competition for nearly $2500 in cash and hosting prizes, you may need a simple and effective way to get some extra votes and entice people to come and view your themes. So, we’ve created a couple banners for you guys to use! Please feel [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 - Vote on Round 1!

by Tiara Rea
Ready to vote for Round 1 of Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest? Voting for Series 3, Round 1 starts today!
Need a reminder of some of the awesome prizes totaling nearly $2500? Visit out contest description and WordPress Theme submission page to see what’s up for grabs, to read the rules, and to enter. [...]

WordPress Design Contest - UPDATE

by Tiara Rea
So we have decided to extend the voting date for the first round of the WordPress Theme Design contest for another two weeks, as we have received a couple complaints about not having enough time to enter the first round. ;) So here are the new dates for the contest â€" you can [...]

Surfin’ the Spark!

By Amy Armitage
I consider myself a social kind of girl, especially online, so when I heard about SocialSpark the name alone was so cool I just HAD to check it out. After I started to surf the Spark, I began to realize there’s a ton of possibilities for bloggers that I really wasn’t even [...]

Designers Win $1000 and 5 Years Web Hosting - WordPress Theme Contest Series 3!

by Tiara Rea
OMG, are you guys ready?? Series 3 of the Lunarpages WordPress Theme Contest is now officially in session! That means you can start submitting your WP themes starting…now! ;) If you are itching to get started, we are totally serious - you can Submit Your WP Themes at any time.
During our first WordPress [...]

WordPress Design Contest - Series 2 WINNERS!!!

By Amy Armitage
We have counted the staff votes and taken the community votes into consideration and …
We have our winners!!
[insert drum roll]
First Prize of $1,000 cash and 5 years web hosting on our Basic Plan
Lilicious by Liza Kliko!!!!!

Congrats Liza :D  You really are an amazing designer!  Our CEO REALLY loves this one too and so do [...]

WordPress Design Contest - Series 3!

By Amy Armitage
Due to the positive response of our first and second series contest, we are planning to run a series 3!
Stay tuned as we will post this likely sometime next week.  Subscribe to our RSS feed to ensure you don’t miss the announcement!
The winner of Series 2 will be announced shortly.  We are still [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 10 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our round 10 winner is:
Aero Inspirat by Anne

The final 15 finalists will be announced later today :)
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WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Final 15!

By Amy Armitage
Voting has closed for the weekly finals and now we are down to the 15 finalists - 10 voted by our community and 5 picks from Lunarpages staff. Voting will run until July 7th and the winners will be announced July 8th!
Unlike last series we do have a policy in [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 10!

By Amy Armitage
Our round 10 entries are:
Aero Inspirat by Anne

Abstract Earth by n252

Wordpress Magazine by Mehmet Özekinci

Blogger City by Edgardo Canape Jr.

One Fine Day by Fath

Vote Now!

Round 10 Best WordPress Theme is...





Aero Inspirat by Anne



Abstract Earth by n252



Wordpress Magazine by Mehmet Özekinci



Blogger City by Edgardo Canape Jr.



One Fine Day by Fath





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Good luck to all [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 9 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our round 9 winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
Minerva Aqua by Anne

Well done Anne!
Entries for the contest have now closed.  We will announce the round 10 finalist next Monday and then announce the final 15 (10 from the community + 5 choses by Lunarpages) in the running for [...]

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WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 9!

By Amy Armitage
Our round 9 entries are:
ClearLight by Deniz Guenay

Gamer Reloaded by Mehmet Ozekinci

Sunset by n252

Minerva Aqua by Anne

Frozen Lotus by Liza Kliko

Vote Now!

Round 9 Best WordPress Theme is...





ClearLight by Deniz Guenay



Gamer Reloaded by Mehmet Ozekinci



Sunset by n252



Minerva Aqua by Anne



Frozen Lotus by Liza Kliko





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Entries close June 22 nd so if you want to [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 9!

By Amy Armitage
Our round 9 entries are:
ClearLight by Deniz Guenay

Gamer Reloaded by Mehmet Ozekinci

Sunset by n252

Minerva Aqua by Anne

Frozen Lotus by Liza Kliko

Vote Now!

Round 9 Best WordPress Theme is...





ClearLight by Deniz Guenay



Gamer Reloaded by Mehmet Ozekinci



Sunset by n252



Minerva Aqua by Anne



Frozen Lotus by Liza Kliko





View Results



Entries close June 22 nd so if you want to [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 8 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our round 8 winner this week, voted by our community and supported by the Lunarpages staff is:
Sexy Back by Dulce Rose Lada

Well done Dulce Rose!
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WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 8!

By Amy Armitage
Our round 8 entries are:
Cactus by Tim Norton

Sexy Back by Dulce Rose Lada

Magic TV by n252

Pistachio by Wessley Roche

Moon Eclipse by Liza Kliko

Vote Now!

Round 8 Best WordPress Theme is...





Cactus by Tim Norton



Sexy Back by Dulce Rose Lada



Magic TV by n252



Pistachio by Wessley Roche



Moon Eclipse by Liza Kliko





View Results



Visit our contest/submission page to enter [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 7 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our round 7 winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
AutumnLeaves by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Congratulations Edgardo! We all love your designs :D
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WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 6 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk

Well done Nicki! I’m really happy to see your designs in this series. You are one of my favorite WordPress designers! :D
[...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 7!

By Amy Armitage
Wow .. we are already at round 7 of our design contest and we have 5 more slick designs for you to vote on:
Maeioska by Mehmet Ozekinci

Sugared Spring by Liza Kliko

AutumnLeaves by Edgardo Canape Jr.

MyWall by Mehmet

Vector Flowers by n252

Vote Now!

Round 7 Best WordPress Theme is...





Maeioska by Mehmet Ozekinci



Sugared Spring by Liza Kliko



AutumnLeaves [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 6!

By Amy Armitage
Our 5 entries for round 6 are:
Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk

Aakon by Tomas Sramek

Lilicious by Liza Kliko

Butterfly by Mehmet Ozekinci

Moo by n252

Vote Now!

Round 6 Best WordPress Theme is...





Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk



Aakon by Tomas Sramek



Lilicious by Liza Kliko



Butterfly by Mehmet Ozekinci



Moo by n252





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Good luck to everyone this week!
[...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 5 Results

By Amy Armitage
Round 5 received a high number of votes and most popular was Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada and The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson.
Our winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is:
Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

Visit our contest/submission page to submit your entry as there are still several weeks [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 5!

By Tiara Rea
Amy is in Washington this week, so she has asked me to post the round 5 entries.
Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci

Hanami by A. Mignolo

Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada

The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson

Gaia by Tomas Sramek

Vote Now!

Round 5 Best WordPress Theme is...





Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci



Hanami by A. Mignolo



Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada



The Grundge [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 4 Results

Our Finalist for Round 4 is Vectorize by Ed Canape!

This round was a bit different as we had to disqualify one contestant (please read the rules before you enter - only themes YOU create or have rights to can be submitted!) and then there were two winners! So we had some of our staff [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 3 Results

By Amy Armitage
Our finalist for round 3 is Translucent Dream by Nicki Faulk

Our team agrees with the large number of community votes!

Congratulations Nicki!
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WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 4!

By Amy Armitage
The 5 themes we have chosen for round 4 are:
Dark Mood v2 by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Entropy by Paul Robinson

Fashioniesta by Ophelia Nicholson

Tree Sunset by andrej

Vectorize by Ed Canape

Round 4 Best WordPress Theme is...





Dark Mood v2 by Edgardo Canape Jr.



Entropy by Paul Robinson



Fashioniesta by Ophelia Nicholson



Tree Sunset by andrej



Vectorize by Ed Canape





View Results



To check [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 3!

By Amy Armitage
This week we have 5 new themes for our community to vote on:
Ladybug by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Translucent Dream by Nicki Faulk

Blue Rings by andrej

Ice Chocolate by Fath

Blogotomic by Sebastian

Vote now!

Round 3 Best WordPress Theme is...





Ladybug by Edgardo Canape Jr.



Translucent Dream by Nicki Faulk



Blue Rings by andrej



Ice Chocolate by Fath



Blogotomic [...]

WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 2 Results

By Amy Armitage
The winning finalist for round 2 is TeamRejoice by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Well done Edgardo! We hope to see more entries from you.
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WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 1 Results

By Amy Armitage
Results are in for round 1 and the community has voted Mag On Wood by ChiQ Montes as our winner. The Lunarpages team wholeheartedly agrees with your votes and declares Mag On Wood as our FIRST finalist!

Lunarpages will also select 6 additional entries for the final, so this does not mean that [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 2!

By Amy Armitage
We have some gorgeous new themes in the running this week:
Episode 1.0 by Hanne Sena

Sweet Brown by Andrej

TeamRejoice by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Lifesabeach by Edgardo Canape Jr.

SL-sweetblogging by Edgardo Canape Jr.

Vote Now!

Round 2 Best WordPress Theme is...





Episode 1.0 by Hanne Sena



Sweet Brown by Andrej



TeamRejoice by Edgardo Canape Jr.



Lifesabeach by Edgardo Canape Jr.



SL-sweetblogging by Edgardo [...]

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WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 1!

By Amy Armitage
Round 1 voting for our WordPress design contest (series 2) starts today.
To check out the prizes up for grabs, visit our contest/submission page. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008 so there is plenty of time to get amongst it!
Below are the 5 themes [...]

Featuring PHP at LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Customers are in search of the best hosting plan available online. This search takes them to various hosting plans available online. But customers are really interested in working with the hosting plan which is most widely used in the market. This is evaluated on the basis of presence of tools as PHP, fantastico and other [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Featuring PHP at LunarPages Hosting Reviews", url: "http://www.lunarpageshostingreviews.com/featuring-php-at-lunarpages-hosting-reviews/61/" });

Featuring Fantistico with LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Website hosting is a method to make money in an easier manner using websites. Customers who want to host their websites will wish to have the best hosting tool when they are hosting a website. For this they rely on the hosting companies. The companies are updating their mechanisms of hosting on a regular basis. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Featuring Fantistico with LunarPages Hosting Reviews", url: "http://www.lunarpageshostingreviews.com/featuring-fantistico-with-lunarpages-hosting-reviews/62/" });

Yahoo! Site Explorer

By Mitch “Yipee!” Keeler
Now I know many of us have used Google’s Webmaster Tools section a time or two, and maybe even submitted our own site map to it. Did you know though that you can do the same with Yahoo! search? The Yahoo! Site Explorer is one way to make sure that [...]

Add Some Lunartastic Content to Netvibes

By Mitch “Netviber” Keeler
Want to add Lunartics, the Lunarpages Newsletter and the recent posts from Lunarforums all onto your own Lunarpages tab inside of Netvibes? Of course you do, silly. You can never have enough Lunartastic tips, tricks, articles and more. Thanks to the ease of creating a custom page via Netvibes [...]

Lunarpages Windows Dedicated Servers - Special Offer

Are you in need of a premium reliable Windows dedicated server?

Lunarpages is providing the first 100 customers to purchase any Windows Dedicated Server plan for 12 or 24 months with a copy of WYSIWYG HTML and website editor, Microsoft Expression Web, and a one-year subscription to Expression Studio Training from Total Training, which provides [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lunarpages Windows Dedicated Servers - Special Offer", url: "http://www.lunarpageshostingreviews.com/lunarpages-windows-dedicated-servers-special-offer/60/" });

Lunarpages Spring Special - Save $48 Instantly!

This is by far the best special we’ve seen for Lunarpages web hosting!
For a limited time, you can save $48 instantly when you purchase Lunarpages Basic Hosting Plan for 24 months.
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After the coupon, your rate will be $4.95 a month instead of $6.95.
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Domain Name FAQ

By Mitch “The Hostmaster” Keeler
From time to time we do receive a few frequently asked questions about our domain name registrations. I figured I would tackle a few of the most often asked ones here to help out any other current Lunarpages customers with questions or new ones who may not know yet.
What type [...]

Using Social Networks to Build Your Brand

By Mitch “The Marketeer” Keeler
There is no doubt in my mind that social networks of all shapes and sizes help, not hurt, you when it comes to building your own name, presence and fan fallowing with your web site. You have your MySpace, your Facebook, your Twitter and more.
I think you should get [...]

Typewriter for the Web?

By Mitch “Monochrome” Keeler
Move over Google Docs and Zoho Writer, there is a new word processing application online.  Feast your eyes on Writer, the Internet typewriter.  

No logging in, complicated menus or any of that jazz.  This is the first lightweight online word processor I have run across.  Just because it is lightweight doesn’t [...]

LunarPages March News

Lunarpages Supports SSH on Shared Hosting Plans
Lunarpages has started to support SSH/shell access on our shared hosting plans. New clients can specify if they want this as an addon when signing up and current clients can drop in an e-mail to support@lunarpages.com and we’ll get you hooked up. Because we know not everyone wants to [...]

WordPress Theme Design Contest - Series 2!

By Amy Armitage
We had such a huge response to our WordPress Design contest, that we have decided to launch a second series with cash and hosting prizes (first prize $1000 and 5 years hosting). This post is simply a heads up that it will be returning in the next few weeks, so dust off [...]

Design Beautiful Tabs with TabCreatr

By Mitch "Loves CSS" Keeler
I am always in search for tools out there that will make the webmaster’s job an easier one.  One of the most recent ones I have run across is called TabCreatr.  The web site is still in "alpha" release, but already has a lot to love. All you need to do [...]

Best of April Fools Day (thus far)

By Mitch “THE April Fool” Keeler
I have to say there have been a lot of “creative” stories Online today.  Here are some of the best (or maybe the worst depending on how many you have seen) April Fools 2008 stories so far.

Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
Gmail Custom Time?
Google Bedroom?
TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat?
Wales Resigns from Wikipedia to [...]

Advantages of Plesk feature at LunarPages Hosting Reviews

It is not that herculean a task to arrive at a decision as to which hosting plan you need to go for. The primary hitch lies in the fact that in this world of website hosting, preliminary objective becomes the pivotal factor. This truth is attributed to the fact that, the success and profit you [...]

March Madness (the web hosting way)

By Mitch “B-Ball” Keeler
The latest and greatest release of the hosting industry’s greatest newsletter is out and ready for reading. Lunarpages Newsletter, Issue 8 is ready for the masses.
In this month’s edition web have just for you packed in some of the best of the best:

LunarNews March 2008

Creating your First Website with LP [...]

Advantages of LunarPages Cheap Hosting Reviews

When website hosting plans are reviewed to offer best hosting plans for customers, most of the visitors of website hosting are happy. They feel that the hosting plan is specially designed to make hosting easier and simpler for them. This thought can bring more and more number of visitors to the web hosting industry. All [...]

Business with LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Carrying out ecommerce and business with websites are a growing trend. This requires special business needs to be satisfied by the hosting company. Business hosting is easy and simple when the hosting company has features needed to bring traffic to the website. Marketing is the main aim of most business sites.
LunarPages has proved to [...]

Discount offers from Lunarpages Hosting Reviews

Customer reviews have a crucial role in making a hosting company famous. They are taken as a concrete evidence for the excellent performance of hosting plans by most of the visitors online. They never think twice when they feel that servers are able to deliver without any failure in hosting services. The primary criteria are [...]

LunarPages VPS Virtual Private Server March News

Need a Windows VPS Hosting Plan? We have cut our Windows VPS Plan pricing in half! Now get Windows VPS Hosting for $39.95/month! Just sign up on Lunarpages and the discount is automatically applied to your bill.
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Designers Win $1000 and 5 Years Web Hosting - WordPress Theme Contest Series 2!

By Amy Armitage
Remember that awesome WordPress Theme Design Contest we ran a couple months back? The one where we gave away over $2300 in web hosting and cash prizes?
Well, it’s back!! And we couldn’t be more excited!
The rules have changed a bit to include mention of the exact schedule for voting and submissions (also noted [...]

WordPress Theme Design Resources

By Mitch “Tutorial Finder” Keeler
Now that the WordPress Design Contest (version 2!) is on its way I have been getting a lot of questions that sound a lot like this one:  I want to enter the contest, but I am not sure exactly how to create a theme for WordPress? As long as you know [...]

Best Joomla Themes?

By Mitch “Q & A” Keeler
As some of you may know, Joomla is yet another one of the great free content management systems out there from the Web that you can install and use to make your web site even better. It adds management options you never thought you wanted or you never knew [...]

How to use Gmail Instead of MS Outlook

By Dinsan Francis
Ever wondered if you could take your Outlook with you ? Wanted to use something better than Horde and Squirrel Mail on your Webmail interface ?
Gmail has an alternative for you !!
Here is a detailed description of what you need to do ( believe me, its quite simple )
Once you set this up, [...]

Featuring Shared hosting in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Customers are the main support of web hosting companies. They have to get the appreciation of the customers to grow and prosper in the industry. Hence most of the web hosting companies tries to dedicate themselves entirely for the service of the users. Users have to be provided the best hosting facilities available online. When [...]

Deals from LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Each web site hosting company must be updated with the latest hosting plans and programs. They must offer superior hosting strategies which are latest in the market. If the web hosting plans are outdated, users will have a tendency to move away. This is the reason why most of the hosting companies are trying to [...]

Specials at LunarPages Hosting Reviews

All facilities provided by a hosting company must be attractive to bring a large number of customers to the site. This can include high memory storage, high bandwidth, uptime and many more. If the web site is providing the above factors in the right amount, then customers will surely go for that company and its [...]

Free Web Site Backgrounds?

By Mitch "Finding Freebies" Keeler
I am always happy to help when we get a question in here to the Lunartics blog to answer.  This time around we were asked if we knew of any free background resources?  Here are a few of the best ones I have found.

DinPattern
Squidfingers
Pattern4U
Citrus Moon Patterns
Photoshop Support
Tile Machine
Kaliber10000

Backgrounds can often add [...]

Want to Advertise on the Lunartics Blog?

by Tiara Rea
We get a few advertising requests every now and then, so we’ve been searching for a nice little feature that could help you guys get some space on our blog without really overwhelming the site with ugly advertisements. So we have implemented Scratchback, a unique widget that works more as a tip jar [...]

10 Spring Cleaning Tips for your Web Site

By Mitch “Mr. Organization” Keeler
Not many of you might of realized that yesterday was the first day of Spring. That means that soon the birds will start chirping, the grass will turn green and summer will be coming up pretty quickly. So as with any other Spring tradition, it is now time to [...]

Send Us Your WordPress Questions

By Mitch "WordPress Guru" Keeler
WordPress might be one of the more popular blogging tools and scripts out there today, but there are still many unanswered questions about it.  Over the next few weeks I thought it might be a good idea to tackle some of these questions right here.  If you have a general WordPress [...]

The Basics of FTP

By Mitch “The Transfererer” Keeler
One of the web hosting basics that all must eventually learn about and master is the art of FTP. FTP stands for file transfer protocol and acts as a way for you to move files and folders from your PC to your hosting account Online. With any of the [...]

Link Checking with Xenu Link Sleuth

By Mitch “Link Crawler” Keeler
Finding broken or inactive links in your web site can be a painful thing for any big web site to do. If only you had your own little crawler that would check through all of the links to make sure that all of them were in working order. Well [...]

7 Ways to a Better Web Site

By Mitch “Self Helper” Keeler
The question is, “How do I make my web site better?” and the answer could be given to you many different ways by many different people. There are often seven rules I tend to live by when it comes to webmastering, so I thought I would share them with you [...]

Got Talent? Submit Your Work!

By Mitch “Link Crawler” Keeler
Finding broken or inactive links in your web site can be a painful thing for any big web site to do. If only you had your own little crawler that would check through all of the links to make sure that all of them were in working order. Well [...]

Create Your Own .htaccess with cPanel

By Mitch “cPanel is Your Friend” Keeler
Your .htaccess file, with any Apache based server or hosting account is a very powerful tool that if you can learn to use for your advantage can help you complete many time consuming or difficult tasks with ease. How do you create one though for your web hosting [...]

2 New Addons for Lunarpages Shared Customers!

by Tiara Rea
Because offering Unlimited Add-Ons and 1500 GB storage space just isn’t enough, Lunarpages has two more incredible announcements to tell you about!

1) SSH/Shell Access available!!
Omg, this is big news, guys. SSH access to our Basic and Business shared servers has always been a major concern of ours, as we don’t want to put [...]

Servers at LunarPages Hosting Reviews

The category of users coming for web site hosting at a particular hosting plan varies greatly. This causes a situation that the web site hosting companies has to provide maximum benefits for the various classes of users. Only when they are able to satisfy all types of users, they are able to succeed among the [...]

5 Tips to Make Your Site Sticky

By Mitch “Tipster” Keeler
Think of it as one of those sticky fly traps you hang outside in the summer to keep the flying insects away from your BB&Q. You don’t want to just lead people to your site, you want to lead them to it - get them interested and then catch them. [...]

Managing Your Project Links

By Mitch "Mr. Organization" Keeler
There is no doubt that when you sign on the dotted line and get your hosting plan of any type, shape or size (you know, we do that sort of thing here at Lunarpages web hosting) you are given a lot of links to keep track of.  You have the link [...]

Hosting Adult Content at LunarPages

Customers are very much concerned about the hosting company to which they are paying to get their web site hosted. This makes them reach a particular position that they never want the hosting plans to put a control on the type of web sites which they can host. Users want freedom to host their adult [...]

Web Developer for Firefox

By Mitch “The Developa” Keeper
When you talk about awesome tools for Firefox to make your web development job just that much easier you can’t overlook the Web Developer toolbar extension. The best thing about this freeware download is that it mixes two great things into a handy tool to keep close at hand [...]

Lunarpages Heads to Texas: SXSW Trade Show

We have some big news for folks who want to learn more about Lunarpages, Lunarpages Dedicated Server Hosting, and all of our many web hosting services - Lunarpages is going to Texas! ;D
More specifically, if you are attending the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, you can meet up with our National Sales [...]

Featuring Ruby on Rails at LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Customers always become too selfish when choosing their web site hosting plan. This is because they are spending too much on this. They want to get the best hosting plan. This makes them to think too much before finalizing a web site strategy to host their web site. They want to get maximum benefits when [...]

Discounts in LunarPages

Web site hosting is easy for all users provided they are receiving adequate support from the company with which they are hosting the web sites. This makes the users more careful when they are searching for a web site hosting plan in the internet. They tend to be very choosy in their selection. They go [...]

Blogging on LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Web site hosting is easy with the help of the right kind of web hosting company. They must have all the necessary ingredients for attracting the users. Once they are provided to the customers, they will be able to attract the end users. In effect the companies are more benefited when the traffic at their [...]

Multiple Domain feature in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Web hosting companies are gaining high market in the internet. This is mainly because they are helping the customers in making high profit in the market. With the advent of the latest techniques in web site hosting, customers enjoy more freedom with the hosting plans. This increases the traffic at the web sites.
LunarPages web [...]

CSS Tab Designer

By Mitch “All About the Tabs” Keeler
When it comes to having a solid navigation, that looks good as well you can get no better than a few well styled tabs. Now with the power of HTML and tossing in some CSS you can have awesome tabs on the side or top of your web [...]

Basics to Blogging

I have gotten a handful of e-mails from people asking me to go over and explain blogging. From head to toe, first you need to find a blogging script to use, then you need to find the best way for you to blog and lastly you need something to blog about.
Blog and Content Management [...]

Various Lunar Goodies

By Mitch “Better than a Newspaper” Keeler
There have been several little things to share going on here at Lunarpages, so let me see if I can sum things up:
Lunarpages February newsletter is out! There are tons of goodies in store for you too. You can browse though the links here or just visit [...]

Uptime in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Users are mainly depending on customer opinion to arrive at a conclusion regarding their doubts on hosting plans. They consider this as valid suggestions as the customers are reviewing after having a first hand experience with various hosting plans. This opinion can be taken as a review on the hosting plan.
LunarPages review show that [...]

Cascade DTP

By Mitch “Has Cascading Style Too!” Keeler
If your in the need for a style sheet creator that does a ‘bit of everything well and says “Free!” in big blog letter on the price tag, then you might be the perfect candidate to try out Cascade DTP. This free program allows you to visually layout [...]

Speed Tests performed in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Customer reviews have a great role in making the hosting plan acceptable by the users. They greatly depend on the reviews for getting a comparable result on the hosting plans. When users feel that, they are paying for the service they receive at the hosting plan, they surely plan to go for that scheme. Users [...]

Optimum performance achieved in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Customer reviews have a great role in making the hosting plan acceptable by the users. They greatly depend on the reviews for getting a comparable result on the hosting plans. When users feel that, they are paying for the service they receive at the hosting plan, they surely plan to go for that scheme. Users [...]

Support feature in LunarPages Hosting Reviews

Web hosting is becoming highly popular with the help of technology. Companies are finding out more and more latest innovations to help the people interested in web hosting. When they find that users are searching for a particular offer, they willingly introduce that plan and make the web hosting quite easy for the end users. [...]

Congratulations WordPress Theme Design Contest Winners!!

It’s been an awesome couple of months for our WP Theme Design Contest, where we invited designers from all over the world to participate for the chance at $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting. It finally came down to the wire, and after some deliberation, some research, and perhaps even some debate, we have [...]

Web Picture Creator

By Mitch “Galleries are my Thing” Keeler
Lets say you have a folder of images on your desktop and you are just dying to get them on the Web. Now you could just upload them to your Lunarpages hosting account, but where is the fun in that? You want to create a neat gallery [...]

Gsitemap - Google Sitemap Creator

By Mitch “Mr. Google” Keeler
I highly encourage all the webmasters that I know to create a Google Sitemap for their web site. This way you can submit it to Google and they have a fool proof way of checking your web site content. Sometimes though, when not using a content management system [...]

Paint.NET

By Mitch “The Painter” Keeler
I guess you could have a web site without graphics, but it would be rather dull. If your in the search for a free image editor - search no longer. The best image editor out there right now for free is Paint.NET.
Some of the features include: working with [...]

What is a Payment Gateway and Why Should I Get One?

by Tiara Rea
Ecommerce web hosting requires a great deal of patience, but it also requires a great deal of consideration. You’re going to need reliable web hosting (check!), a shopping cart system (check!), and a payment gateway.
So what is a payment gateway? It sounds very technical but it’s more or less just a service that [...]

Amaya W3C’s Design Solution

By Mitch “W3C Rocks” Keeler
A web editor with style, Amaya is a tool that focuses on creating documents for the Web. With integrated preview and editing tools it is a tool that can not be overlooked. An open source solution, Amaya is also hosted by W3C - they know a thing or two [...]

Porta - Lightweight Gallery Tool

By Mitch “Not Going to Make a Porta Potty Joke” Keeler
If you are looking for a lightweight program that will help you create a great looking photo gallery look no further than Porta. Porta can turn any directory filled with images into a neatly formatted photo album for the web.
This program is not [...]

Windows Live Writer

By Mitch “Alive and Well” Keeler 
Programs that promised to help me update my blog stopped being interesting the first time I tried one. Why? None of them seem to do it all. That was my point of view before I found Windows Live Writer and I have to say, I am happy [...]

Using Control Panel in LunarPages

Web site hosting is an area where more and more enhancements are coming up. This is because of the interest of people in web hosting. Companies find that, this is a field where they can attract more and more users and visitors. So they cocoon their concentration on the factors needed to attract people to [...]

NoteTab Light

By Mitch “Notepad Replacer” Keeler
I’ve been a huge fan of NoteTab (all the various versions) for a really long time. It is the first Notepad replacement I can remember using, and it continues to be my favorite. When editing HTML, PHP or any other type of code having a good text editor with [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day from Lunarpages <3

by Tiara Rea
If you&#8217;re like me, you love Valentine&#8217;s Day for all its mushy-wushy lovey-dovey kissy-kissy affection&#8230;. Okay, honestly I&#8217;m an anti-romantic, but I still love the idea of sending flowers on a special day to those you love. And this time of year, flowers can get expensive. Around Christmas, I was searching for a [...]

CoreFTP - Neat Free and Cheap FTP Client

By Mitch &#8220;FTP(it is my middle name)&#8221; Keeler
CoreFTP might be overlooked by some, but it too is a grand way to get your files from your PC to your hosting account and back the other way. If fully supports all the FTP bells and whistles and has both a great paid and free version.
Features for [...]

Notepad++

By Mitch &#8220;++&#8221; Keeler
It might have an odd name (what is wrong with just Notepad +?) but don&#8217;t let the name fool you. Notepad++ is an excellent replacement for Notepad and will help you with your HTML coding issues. It supports WYSIWYG editing, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, multiple documents, drag and drop and more!

Notepad++ [...]

Matrix Y2K

By Mitch &#8220;M2K&#8221; Keeler
I remember Y2K just like it was yesterday. Computers were suppose to stop working, cows were going to produce cheese instead of milk and other oddities were suppose to happen. None of them did of course, and everything was just fine and dandy. Speaking of fine and dandy, that [...]

Quanta Plus

By Mitch “Quanta Leap” Keeler
Some people have been angry because I haven&#8217;t reviewed any Linux friendly applications here. Well, I decided to make them happy and do a little write up about Quanta Plus.
This freeware download is much more than just your standard HTML editor, it is a full blown web development environment. [...]

HAPedit - PHP, HTML and ASP Editor

By Mitch &#8220;Likes to Edit&#8221; Keeler
What does HAPedit stand for? It is an editor for HTML, ASP, and PHP. It is a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.
Some of the included features for this freeware program include: syntax highlighting for html/PHP, HTML/ASP, JavaScript, CSS and SQL; page preview [...]

SmartFTP

By Mitch &#8220;Smart FTPer&#8221; Keeler
I remember SmartFTP being one of the first really professional looking FTP clients I ever used. Even today, the visual aspect of the product is second to none. It is not just eye candy though. SmartFTP also has man features that make it one of the best free [...]

Free CSS Toolbox

By Mitch &#8220;Stylin&#8217; &#38; Profilin&#8217;&#8221; Keeler 
Have you been looking for a freeware productivity suite of tools to help you with your CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)? There are many programs that promise good results, but the only free one that delivers well is Free CSS Toolbox. It is a simple CSS editor, formatter and [...]

PSPad - Text Editing and FTP Combined

By Mitch &#8220;The Coder&#8221; Keeler
If you work with your web page code as plain text, but you would like an editor that delivers more than your standard notepad does, PSPad deserves your attention. it is the freeware choice for people who need an FTP client and HTML editor combined.
With its built in FTP client, [...]

Alleycode - Text and HTML Editor

By Mitch &#8220;Drag and Drop&#8221; Keeler
Being lucky enough to be the one selected to look at the slew of freeware products we will be reviewing here has been a blessing. I check to check out and use a lot of awesome programs and honestly one of the most impressive thus far is Alleycode.
Alleycode is [...]

Ecommerce with LunarPages

Web hosting plans are available in large numbers in internet. You have the freedom to choose the plan best suitable for your hosting. Reviews available in web sites allow you to take a wise decision on the web hosting plan. LunarPages reviews show that the hosting plan has many advantages for the customers.
LunarPages help [...]

LunarPages Hosting

Hosting services are available at all rates and qualities. Choosing the best suitable plan for you is all that is important. You have to take into consideration various aspects of hosting that are really important. LunarPages Hosting is the best hosting plan according to the reviews by experienced customers. They assure the trust worthy dealings [...]

LunarPages VPS

Trying to get a VPS hosting for your web site is an easy task. But you have to make sure that you receive all the needed factors with your hosting service plan. To avoid a risk, it is better to go for a LunarPages Hosting plan. The VPS hosting provided under this company assures you [...]

LunarPages Reseller

If you are a web designer so keen about your hosting plans, then you can be particular about the Reseller Web Hosting plans. You can choose the reseller programs with the help of the recent reviews that come up for web hosting. These reviews highlight the use of LunarPages reseller program for your favourite web [...]

Getting a Domain Name using LunarPages Hosting

While selecting a web site hosting plan, you need to be choosier. This is because there are a larger number of plans available in the internet. These plans may not be helpful to you in all ways. Yet the charge for hosting the web site will be high. This results in the statements that, before [...]

FileZilla

By Mitch &#8220;FTP is My Middle Name&#8221; Keeler
I have gone through many FTP clients. Some might even say I have tried them all. None of them seem to offer as much as FileZilla does. With any of the web hosting solutions that you pick up from Lunarpages, it is almost essential to [...]

Easy Bookmarking for Your Visitors

By Mitch &#8220;Loves Sharing&#8221; Keeler
Got a question sent my way the other day from a Lunartics reader who wanted to know my suggestion for the easiest way to add those &#8220;bookmark at..&#8221; icons onto your web site layout. There are many different routes you could go but my favorite is AddThis.com.

They make it super [...]

Nvu - Powerful WYSIWYG Editor

By Mitch &#8220;Easy Editing&#8221; Keeler
Maybe you don&#8217;t have the cash to splurge on Dreamweaver or FrontPage but you still want a good WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor. What options do you have for your web hosting plan? There are many out there - but top of the line in [...]

KompoZer

By Mitch &#8220;Well KompoZed&#8221; Keeler
KompoZer is Nvu&#8217;s brother from another mother. As a complete web authoring program that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing KompoZer delivers just as much (if not more) punch than Nvu.
It features you files on your left and your editing window on your right. [...]

Web Album Generator

By Mitch &#8220;Photographer, I&#8217;m Not&#8221; Keeler
We all like putting up galleries of our images on our web sites, but the act of creating the gallery is a big pain in the server for some. Creating the thumbnails and getting everything organized can be more trouble than it is worth without a program like Web [...]

Trellian WebPage

By Mitch &#8220;Trellian Lover&#8221; Keeler
Another fabulous freeware tool that will help you get your web site out of your head and onto the Web is Trellian WebPage. This freeware download features an intuitive interface, importing, color highlighted HTML editor, meta tag editor, drag and drop editing, a built in spell checker and more.
It does [...]

Amaya W3C’s Design Solution

By Mitch &#8220;W3C Rocks&#8221; Keeler
A web editor with style, Amaya is a tool that focuses on creating documents for the Web. With integrated preview and editing tools it is a tool that can not be overlooked. An open source solution, Amaya is also hosted by W3C - they know a thing or two [...]

Easy Form Creation

By Mitch &#8220;WYSIWYG&#8221; Keeler
Need help creating a new form for your web site that both is functional and looks pretty too? pForm is one resource I just happened to stumble across that I really like.

All you have to do is pick the design you like and then walk through the steps designing how you exactly [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day from Lunarpages <3

by Tiara Rea
If you&#8217;re like me, you love Valentine&#8217;s Day for all its mushy-wushy lovey-dovey kissy-kissy affection&#8230;. Okay, honestly I&#8217;m an anti-romantic, but I still love the idea of sending flowers on a special day to those you love. And this time of year, flowers can get expensive. Around Christmas, I was searching for a [...]

Easy Site Building with LPQuicksite

By Mitch &#8220;Does Things the Easy Way&#8221; Keeler
Have you checked out the previous coverage of LPQuicksite from our Lunarpages Newsletter? It is an amazing new service that continues to amaze me. For those people out there that do not want to mess with content management systems, installing scripts and babysitting databases this is [...]

Using Gmail with Lunarpages E-mail Accounts

 By Mitch &#8220;Google Guy&#8221; Keeler
Need help with importing your e-mail accounts into Gmail so that you can use Gmail as your e-mail client of choice? As long as you follow along (step by step) this should be an easy thing to do. Now why would you want to do this?
Well for an example [...]

Lunarforums Site of the Month

By Mitch &#8220;Forum Plugger&#8221; Keeler 
We are in the middle of bringing back an old favorite that many seemed to enjoy the Web Site of the Month. The Web site of the month forum is back open and running over at Lunarforums.com and now all we need is your vote. Here are the stipulations [...]

Designers & Developers Wanted!

By Amy Armitage
We receive a lot of requests from our customers looking for freelance designers (low end stuff like logos and small sites right up to high end design) and also developers (particularly developers for dedicated server customers). If you are a designer or developer looking for regular leads,La jugar casino gratis se realiza [...]

3 Quick Tips for Better Content

By Mitch &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Hemingway&#8221; Keeler
Having done my fair share of content writing for a number of years, I can say that I have seen what works and what does not work. If you want to master the written (or keyed in our case) word, follow these three simple rules.
1. Don&#8217;t be [...]

Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

By Amy Armitage
So I got this email late yesterday and I really had trouble working out the answer. A few of us in the office are going back and forth yelling out random answers.
Here it is&#8230;
There are 7 girls in a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every [...]

Final 12 Entries WordPress Design Contest - Vote Now!

By Amy Armitage
WOW! We had a load of fantastic submissions for the contest and after removing all the broken or duplicate ones, or themes we weren&#8217;t convinced were designed by the author &#8220;claiming&#8221; them, we now have 95 FREE and beautiful WordPress themes for you all to enjoy. A special thanks to all of the [...]

95 New Free WordPress Themes!

By Amy Armitage
Thanks to all our designers for their fantastic submissions. Tomorrow we will announce the final 12!
Meanwhile you can visit our themes page to download and use these free themes. Below are some screen shots of some of the themes available and they are just gorgeous!

Enjoy!
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Round Six WordPress Theme Contest - Entry Chosen for Final 12!

By Amy Armitage
Round 6 voting for our WordPress design contest has ended and the finalist is&#8230;
Spa by Kate!

Congratulations Kate!
Don&#8217;t forget all entires close tomorrow and on Wednesday we will announce the 12 finalists!
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Robbing Your Customers?

By Amy Armitage
Dreamhost has had a billing glitch and has billed hundreds of customers for as much as 2 years in advance, with debits/charges up to $9000 in some cases.
Last year DreamHost wrote this post on their blog:

It’s something we like to do every day!
Yep, the secret to our crazy low prices and amazing ferraris, [...]

WordPress Design Contest - Vote on Round 6!

By Amy Armitage
This week is our last round of voting and we have 5 more themes to vote on.
Contest entries close on January 22nd so you can still enter and you may be one of the 6 entries we choose to go up against the finalists from week 1 - 6 voting. The [...]

Round Five WordPress Theme Contest - Entry Chosen for Final 12!

By Amy Armitage
Round 5 voting has closed and we had a clear winner!
The finalist is&#8230;
ModernMagic by Lorelei

Congratulations Lorelei!
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Round Three WordPress Theme Contest - Entry Chosen for Final 12!

By Amy Armitage
Voting for round 3 has closed and we had a clear winner!
The finalist is&#8230;
Winter Styled by Speckyboy

Congratulations Speckyboy!
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Round Two WordPress Theme Contest - Entry Chosen for Final 12!

By Amy Armitage
Last week voting started for our second finalist. It was close between Damai by eches and Christmas Spirit by Kate
And the finalist is&#8230;
Damai by eches with 396 votes!

Congratulations eches!  Check out round 3 entries here
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WordPress Design Contest - Vote on Round 3!

By Amy Armitage
This week we have 5 more themes to vote on.
To check out what the prizes are, visit our contest/submission page.
Below are this week&#8217;s top 5!
BigCity by Gleb Garipov

Hobbit by Kate

X4 by Xeroxaven

Perfec[TOM] by Lorelei

Winter Styled by Speckyboy

Vote Now!
Voting Has Closed
See Round 2 Finalist here
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WordPress Design Contest - Vote on Round 4!

By Amy Armitage
Yesh&#8230;  it&#8217;s the end of the year and to celebrate we have 5 more themes to vote on :D
To check out the prizes up for grabs, visit our contest/submission page.  Designers can submit as many entries as they want!
Below are this week&#8217;s top 5!
Auric by not (that) ugly

Light by Stephen Reinhardt

Ruins by Daniel [...]

Round Four WordPress Theme Contest - Entry Chosen for Final 12!

By Amy Armitage
Voting for round 4 has closed and the two themes battling it out were Auric by not (that) ugly and Light by Stephen Reinhardt..
The finalist is&#8230;
Auric by not (that) ugly

Congratulations to our round 4 finalist!
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WordPress Design Contest - Vote on Round 5!

By Amy Armitage
This week we have 5 more themes to vote on :D
Please note: Due to an error on the submission form, entries from the last 5 days were NOT uploaded. If you uploaded a theme during that time, please submit again.
To check out the prizes up for grabs, visit our contest/submission page. [...]