Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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 [...]

Monday, December 29, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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.  [...]

Monday, December 22, 2008

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 [...]

Friday, December 19, 2008

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, [...]

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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 [...]

Monday, December 15, 2008

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 [...]

Friday, December 12, 2008

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 [...]

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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, [...]

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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 [...]

Monday, December 8, 2008

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. 
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

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 [...]

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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 [...]

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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 [...]