Friday, February 29, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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 [...]

Monday, February 25, 2008

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 [...]

Friday, February 22, 2008

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 [...]

Thursday, February 21, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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 [...]

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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 [...]

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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 [...]

Sunday, February 3, 2008

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 [...]