Best of the Lunarpages Blog in 2009

 
With 2009 ending, and 2010 starting up â€" now is the time to take a look back at some of the greatest tips, tutorials, guides and more we have published here.  Now you can catch that great post you missed the first time around, or revisit a tutorial you nearly forgot about.
Ready for the [...]

New Years Lunarpages Coupon – Save $50!

Start the new year off right, by saving $50 on your next web hosting plan purchase at Lunarpages.
Want to save $50 on the Basic hosting plan?
You can do that.
Want to save $50 on the Business hosting plan?
You can do that too.
Want to save $50 on the Windows, Quicksite, VPS and Dedicated hosting plans?
I’m telling you, [...]

Replace Your E-mail with a Help Desk

When your running a small to medium sized business, you might realize you are getting more mail from customers and business associates than you can handle.  Sure, you could filter your e-mail and organize your incoming requests, however I have a better way to get the job done.  Have you ever thought about replacing [...]

Fixing WordPress CSS Alignment Editor Issues

WordPress is finally providing a blog text editor that they can be proud of.  As of the most recent release, I have switched from using a desktop client to write blog entries to the WordPress web site interface.  That isn’t to say it hasn’t been without problems.
One issue I saw was that the text and [...]

How to Add a Members Google Gadget

Want to show off how many followers or members your web site has?  The perfect tool for this job, is the members gadget from the Google Connect service.  It shows a grid of photos for each web site visitor who considers themselves a, “member” of your online service.
So, where do we begin?
If you need help [...]

4 Red (and Free!) phpBB Themes

Finding a red theme is never fun, because truth be told, there are not that many good looking red themes out there.  There are a lot of phpBB themes out there â€" however, finding free themes that are red is a difficult task, indeed.  I have searched the Web myself though, and I have returned [...]

Home Grown Marketing Strategies

Where does customer service fit into the grand scheme of things, when it comes to planning a good marketing strategy?  Mention marketing to anybody, and they start thinking about sales, offers and deals.  While, they too are important, having a good customer service relationship also plays a key role.
The customer you have is more valuable [...]

Make SSI work on HTML Pages

Want to make Sever Side Includes (SSI) work on .html web pages?
On a web hosting server, the .shtml has to be used when you use Sever Side Includes (SSI) on a server. You can override this behavior in your .htaccess file though.
To configure the server in a way so that on your hosting [...]

Twelve Hosting Days of Christmas

I am finding myself in more of a holiday mood, the closer and closer we get to Christmas.  So what happens, when you mix the Christmas spirit with the likes of the web hosting world?
Here you have, the Lunarpages rendition of a holiday classic, The Twelve Days of Hosting Christmas.  Enjoy!
On the first day of [...]

Quickly Add a Newsletter to Your Site

Google, through the Google Friend Connect service, give you a way to send out a very simple newsletter to your web site visitors.  If you just have a small update to send out â€" and you don’t need anything too fancy â€" this is a great alternative, that will also get your web site [...]

4 Impressively Free WordPress Themes

WordPress themes are a dime a dozen, however good WordPress themes are few and far between.  I am a pretty picky designer, so it takes a lot to impress me with a theme, especially when it is free.  Here are some of the most impressive free themes I’ve found out there for WordPress.
Statement â€" Demo [...]

Santa Brought Some Web Hosting Deals Early!

The holidays are fast approaching,  but have no fear because your favorite web host is here to help you with your web hosting woes.  Issue 27 of the Lunarpages customer newsletter is out and ready for reading!  What all do we have in store for you this month?  Here’s a sample of what we [...]

How to Setup Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect provides you with the tools bring your web site’s community together.  You can create a social bar to show the latest comments, a members box, so members can get in touch with each other, ratings, reviews and more.  There are a lot of interactive fun things you can do with Google [...]

Lunarpages Coupon – $50 Off Any Web Hosting Plan!

‘Tis the season for some great holiday deals!
Lunarpages realizes that with all the Christmas shopping, stocking stuffing and present wrapping you need a deal worth getting excited about.  So that is why I am happy to introduce you to the latest Christmas special from your friends at Lunarpages.
For a limited time, you [...]

Look Back at Great Web Hosting Scripts

On the Lunarpages blog this month we have been discussing some of the greatest scripts out there that you can install on just about any web hosting plan Lunarpages offers to you.  For those who might have missed it, here is a roundup of all the third-party script reviews we did over the month of [...]

How to Save a Trace Route to a .txt File

When it comes to running a trace route, some people become confused on how you get that trace route from your command prompt window to your uber-friendly support team.  The easiest method would be to save the trace route as a .txt file, so you could copy the data, and paste it in your e-mail [...]

50% OFF New Basic Hosting Plans – Thanksgiving Savings!

You do not have to wait till Black Friday to pick up a great web hosting deal.  Right now, if you use the coupon code Thanks you can save 50% on a new Basic hosting plan. 
I could write a million and one words on how great the Basic hosting plan is, however nothing beats [...]

Best phpBB Web Host Out There?

Could Lunarpages in fact be the greatest phpBB web host out there?  I would say so.  For those of you who do not know, phpBB is one of the most widely used open source forum solutions to date.  It’s user friendly installation process and easy to use administration panel has made it one of [...]

Magento Hosting Comes to Lunarpages

As a professional and open-source e-commerce solution, Magento is offering your online store access to unprecedented flexibility and control.  You can also get it up and running here with Lunarpages, if you are using one of our new LPCP controlled accounts.
What Makes Magento So Great?
Where Magento really shines is it’s modular architecture.  It really puts [...]

Create Your Own .htaccess with LPCP

Over the past year or so, a lot of people have enjoyed the write-up on how to create your own .htaccess file from within cPanel, so I figured I would give the same sage words of advice for everybody out there using the LPCP control panel.
To create a .htaccess file in LPCP, log into the [...]

Hosting with osCommerce

One of the most widely used shopping cart scripts out there is osCommerce.  It gives the shop owner an open-source online e-commerce solution.  You might have already known that, however did you know a number of our web hosting plans come with a way to get it installed in a single click?  Lunarpages is a [...]

E-Commerce Hosting with Zen Cart

The free, user-friendly and open source shopping cart software, Zen Cart is perfect for any e-commerce web site hosted at Lunarpages.  With the thoughts of shop owners, programmers, designers and more in mind, Zen Cart is one of the best third-party shopping cart scripts out there.

You can easily install Zen Cart one of three ways.  [...]

PHPlist Hosting with Lunarpages

One of the world’s best open-source newsletter managers can be installed a number of different ways, here at Lunarpages.  PHPlist is a free script that will handle all your  newsletter or mailing lists for you.  It is downloaded over 10,000 tie per month â€" and is possibly one of the most popular open-source scripts [...]

7 Reasons to Love the New Intel Core i7 Dedicated Hosting Plan

Lunarpages is not only a leader in the shared and VPS hosting world, they are also a juggernaut when it comes to dedicated hosting servers too.  The newest member to the dedicated hosting plan family is the new i7 Dedicated hosting plan.  What is so special?  I am going to give you seven reasons [...]

SMF Web Hosting at Lunarpages

Possibly one of the best forum scripts out there to date, Simple Machines Forum, is more than welcome to be hosted here at Lunarpages, on many of our web hosting plans.   It is a free, professional grade software package that will have you setup with your own online community in just seconds. 

How [...]

Get Your Joomla Hosting on at Lunarpages

The award winning content management system, which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications is more than welcome at Lunarpages.  Joomla is all that, and so much more.  For people looking for an easy to use and powerful script to manage their digital empire, Joomla is a good way to go. [...]

Save $60 on Quicksite Hosting

Here to help you save some cash (because the holidays are coming up quick!) Lunarpages has done it again with another fantastic offer. For a limited time only, you can grab your own Quicksite hosting plan for only $9.95 per month, if you sign up for the 12 month billing term.  Just think about [...]

Vanilla Web Forum Hosting at Lunarpages

Lunarpages fully supports the lightweight and simple Vanilla forum script.  What is Vanilla?  It is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the Web. 
While it is not supported via the cPanel’s Fantastico or LPCP’s WebApps manager, the script is simple enough for anybody to download, setup and install in minutes.  For [...]

Save $72 on Business Hosting at Lunarpages

For a limited time only, we are dropping the price for our e-commerce enabled juggernaut of a web hosting plan, the Business hosting plan, to $18.95 per month, if you sign up for a new 24 month plan.  How much money will that save you?  It cuts the price, and save you $72 â€" [...]

Get bbPress Hosting at Lunarpages

Yesterday, we took a look at WordPress, so today I figured we would check out it’s message board (and less popular) brother from another mother, bbPress.  Forum software can often be slow, bloated and filled with holes â€" however bbPress is the total opposite.  It is focused around being easy to use, speedy, and [...]

WordPress Hosting at Lunarpages

All this month, on the Lunartics blog, we are going to be highlighting some of our favorite third party scripts.  From image galleries to message boards, there will be a little something for everybody.  To get things started, I thought I would discuss with you why WordPress is my absolute favorite blogging script.
WordPress truly [...]

How to Get Started with an Affiliate Plan

Everybody likes to get paid cold hard cash for giving their opinion on who the greatest web host out there really is, right?  The Lunarpages affiliate plan will pay you big bucks, just for referring new clients over to Lunarpages.
Need some help to get you started?  Here are six great tutorials that cover just about [...]

Keep Your WordPress Plugins Up To Date

Keeping your plugins up to date is one of the most important things you can do after you have installed WordPress.  For security reasons, and reasons of functionality you always want to make sure you are running the latest and greatest version of each â€" and here is how you can get it done quickly, [...]

Free Flash Template Designs from Lunarpages

Want to get a free flash design template with your next web hosting plan?  The team over at Flash Template Designs and Lunarpages have teamed up to deliver you an out of this world deal.
If you use the coupon code FTD30 when you purchase a 12 or 24 month NEW hosting plan with Lunarpages and [...]

Kings and Queens of the Hosting Cosmos!

The Lunarpages community extends much further than this one blog.  Sure, the Lunartics blog highlights an important part of the network, however it is only one cog in the machine that is the Lunarpages community.
So what are the other parts of the Lunarpages community of sites? We have:

Lunarforums.com â€" Our social stomping grounds where you [...]

Free, Customizable Flash Image Viewer

Need a simple flash gallery tool?  Look no further than SimpleViewer.  It can take any bundle of online photos and make it into a gallery that somebody could spend hours upon hours browsing through.

This free online script will allow you to have a beautiful flash-powered image gallery in no time at all.  This is a [...]

Save Bandwidth, Shrink That Style Sheet!

Depending on how many notes or messy modifications you make to your cascading style sheets, you might be about due for a little compression.  By shrinking you external CSS files, you can save the bandwidth it takes to download them, each time somebody visits your web site. 
Now how much optimization should you do?  Well, [...]

Measure a Domain’s SEO Juice Levels

There are a lot of tools out there to help you see how well you are doing via the search engines out there, but few do it as completely as RankBuzz.  This online tool not only gives you your Google PageRank, but also provides your Alexa rank, thumbnail, whois information, index pages, social links, on [...]

Simple 3 Step Web Site Publishing

It has been a while since we had a look at the LPQuicksite hosting plan, so I thought I would show you how you can get your website built in 2 hours or less with our fantastic publishing tools. A lot of you might think the simple three step process is more of a sales [...]

Another Way to Embed Twitter Content

I have shown you in the past how to promote yourself with a twitter search widget, but now I have found another solution to get the same task done.  If you are a user of HootSuite, you can now create embeddable columns that you can then take from your HootSuite account and embed via your [...]

Find Domain Name Typos Faster

People often say it is a good idea to register domain name typos.  Why?  Well, when somebody accidently types in the wrong domain name, you want to make sure they still get to your web site at large.  For example, did you know Google has Gooogle.com registered?
To help you find some of the domain [...]

Decorate your Twitter or Facebook Icon with Lunarpages

Want to show your support for Lunarpages on Twitter or Facebook?  You can add the ultra-cool Lunarpages globe to your profile picture right now, at Twibbon.com.

Support Lunarpages on Twitter
Support Lunarpages on Facebook

What is Twibbon.com all about?  It is a free service that allows you to overlay small images or “Twibbons” on your profile image to [...]

Hosting News for October

The October edition of the Lunarpages customer newsletter has been released, and is chalked full of web hosting goodness.  If you have not checked it out yet â€" here are just a few things you are missing out on:

LunarNews: October 2009
Free Flash Templates for Your Website!
Get Started with Quantcast Tracking Support Lunarpages from Twitter! [...]

Grab a Number of Cool Google Gadgets

The gadget team over at Google have made it really easy to grab any number of tools they have featured there and display them on your web site.  At the time of writing this, they have over 175,000 little boxes of information to share with your own visitors.
To get started with adding your own, first [...]

Translate Your Pages to Any Language

Did you notice we added a new translation button to the Lunarpages web hosting wiki yesterday?  Now our wonderful international audience can gain access to all the wonderful tips, tutorials and information the wiki has to offer.
How can you add this same functionality to your own web site?  The magic starts on the Google Translate [...]

Web Hosting Forums Get a New Design

The Lunarpages-based community message boards, Lunarforums.com, got an entirely new design yesterday.  From head to toe, this new layout is more visually appealing than the rest, and is by far just one more great addition to an already great set of user forums.
Here is what a few Lunarpages customers and forum members have had to [...]

Create or Find Color Palettes from Images

Ever looked at a picture and wish you could grab the HTML color codes for the specific picture in question?  Perhaps it has a really interesting orange or red you would really like to use in your layout.  Maybe you should try Color Hunter.
This web site allows you to search for pictures, color palettes, [...]

Ping Your Site Map to Bing

Now that Bing and Yahoo are teaming up with search, having your web site optimized for Microsoft’s new search engine is even more important.  While browsing through some of Bing’s webmaster documentation, I found a way you an submit your sitemap to them â€" in one single easy step.
All you need to do is copy [...]

What is My SERP?

When dealing with search engine optimization, a phrase you might hear tossed around is SERP, but many do not know what it really stands for. 
I’ll let you know what it is, and why you need to be aware of it.
SERP is the search engine optimization slang for how well your web site is [...]

Basic Web Design from Lunarpages

You can get started affordably with a five page web site professionally designed by Lunarpages.  Within the web design plans we offer, Website Package 1 will provide you with your web hosting, domain registration and web site design are all placed in the hands of Lunarpages.  It is the ideal hosting plan for small [...]

60+ Links to Help You Learn CSS Web Design

I have had many people ask me what resources do I learn from, when it comes to being a modern day webmaster.  Now, there are many resources out there â€" but here are 60 of the best links (taken from my own bookmarks to your browser) to assist you in mastering the art of [...]

Basics of CSS in Web Design

Adding a Cascading Style Sheet to your current web site layout and save you time and make your web site look a lot more professional in the process.  Cascading Style Sheets, or sometimes referred to as CSS, is a style sheet language used to describe how a web page should be formatted.
For example, if you [...]

Speed Up Pages by Combining External CSS

Tell me, which of these would be easier to do? Carry ten pieces of luggage with you on your trip, or put everything into one piece of luggage?  The second, of course.  The same thing could be said for CSS files in your web site’s code. 
The use of multiple external CSS files, can [...]

Better AdSense Optimization with WordPress

Looking through Google AdSense advice and suggested places to put your advertisements, I often see it suggested to put the ads between your posts on the index page.  Having searched around for ways to get it done, I found none that were easy â€" until I found this page.
This is the guide I followed from [...]

Powered by Lunarpages? Win Free Web Hosting!

In an effort to give back to our great community, Lunarpages is giving away a free year of web hosting. 
   
   
What do you have to do?  Just add our “Powered by Lunarpages.com” button to your web site, let us know, and then you will be entered into the drawing [...]

Promote Yourself with the Twitter Search Widget

Looking for something to add to your web site to add a little more interactivity?  How about the Twitter search widget?  This is a service I just found out about, and I do have to say it makes for an interesting web site highlight.
All you have to do is go to the Twitter Search Widget [...]

Get $50 of Free Facebook Ads from Lunarpages

Both new and existing Lunarpages customers are getting a fantastic free offer from Facebook.  As part of a promotion launched back in July, as a new (or existing) customer with Lunarpages, you are eligible to receive free Facebook Ads credits up to $50!

If you have wanted to experiment with new ways to bring in [...]

Web Icons Perfect for Any Layout or Design

Are you in need of a few good icons for you next big web design project?  None get any better than those featured over on iconBin.  Quickly becoming one of my favorite hunting grounds for icons, this web site has tons of free icons you can use on your own layouts and designs.
Here [...]

Free e-Commerce Theme for WordPress

I am always searching for the best free WordPress themes, and this one might be one of the most unique I have found in a while.  The Crafty Cart theme is a free e-commerce theme for WordPress. 

As you can see, it is great looking and you can test out the demo to see [...]

New Web Site Design Solutions from Lunarpages

In need of a professionally designed web site, but lacking the time to do it yourself or hunt down a designer?  Better yet, do you want to skip having to cross you fingers and hope for the best when it comes to finding a new designer for your hosting plan?  Lunarpages as you covered with [...]

Cool Embeddable Widgets for Your Web Site

A widget platform which really simplifies the development, syndication and statistics of the widgets in question is yourminis.  They give you both a gallery of widgets to copy and paste onto your own web site, as well as, the tolls you will need to develop your own customized widgets.
If you need a widget to [...]

Easier E-Commerce Web Sites with MIVA

MIVA Merchant 5.5, Innovative Merchant Solutions (IMS) and Lunarpages have teamed up to help you build a powerful store front easily, and in an instant.  It is no secret that MIVA Merchant is the world-wide leader in e-commerce shopping cart software, and when you mix that with the quality hosting solutions from Lunarpages, this [...]

More Web Hosting Help, Tips and Tutorials!

The latest and great web hosting newsletter has been released.  From our headquarters and into your hands, this month’s edition has a lot to love.  Be sure to browse though each article, one by one to learn more about how you can get more out of your Lunarpages web hosting account.
We are also announcing grand [...]

Free Photo Editing with Active Pixels

Good photo and image editors are hard to find, especially when you want to find them for free.  When you find one thought that is not only free, but also shares a lot of the same features as Photoshop â€" then that is something to sing about.  Active Pixels is that freeware download.
Here is a [...]

Add Thumbnail Previews and Content to Your Links

It is always good to search for ways to make yourself different from the pack, and one way to get that done is to perhaps provide your web site users thumbnail previews of the links they are visiting.  Snap Shots provides you with this new web site interactivity, and it is easy to setup.
The [...]

Over 100+ Best Fonts on the Web for Designers

Finding the right font for your next logo or your next web site re-design is not the easiest thing to do.  So with that in mind, I thought I would make your web designing day by giving you a plethora of great “best of” font lists to get your search for the next greatest [...]

Labor Day Special – Web Hosting Discount of $50!

What are your plans for this Labor Day weekend? 
I am willing to bet that web hosting didn’t have anything to do with your last barbeque of the Summer, or final trip to the beach, however after checking out Lunarpages web hosting special for the holiday weekend, I bet web hosting will be a BIG [...]

Introduction to Mind Maps for Webmasters

When it comes to planning out a brand new web site, organizing your thoughts can be rather difficult.  You might know you want to design a web site about a specific topic, but can’t decide what else you might need in that web site to help it become successful.  Mind maps are one great way [...]

Better E-mail Hosting Solutions

We listen to our customers and work hard to deliver them services they need to make themselves a success Online.  Our e-mail web hosting solutions are a great example of this.  Both the Mini-Mail and Mega-Mail e-mail plans were created to meet the customer who wanted e-mail hosting, but did not need a web site, [...]

10 Legal Eagle Tips for Webmasters

When it comes to issues of the law, many webmasters throw up their hands, because it is either too confusing or complicated to deal with.  However, Lunarpages has a number of resources that does help make sense of some of the legal woes you might be facing or want to look into.
Jeffery A. Cohen [...]

25 Most Popular Twitter Plugins for WordPress

Using Twitter in combination with your WordPress powered blog? 
There are tons of tools and plugins you can take advantage of to make that mix of micro-blogging, and regular blogging mix into a presentation anybody (and I am sure everybody) will enjoy. 
To help you get started, here are the 25 highest rated Twitter [...]

Keep Lindsay Lohan Away from Site Title Tags

The title tag is by far the most important part of your web site.  It is the first thing people see, and it tells people what they are about to check out.  If your looking for a way to get your web site traffic up, just by doing a little touch up work to [...]

Take Better Web Site Captures with WebSnapshot

What is a web developer to do when they need a screenshot of a web site, or part of a web site that they can use?  The Adobe Air application, WebSnapshot, makes getting screenshots of web sites a painless process.

To use it, all you have to do is enter the URL for the web [...]

Affiliate Plan Payment Checklist

For all hosting plan affiliates out there, here are two things you need to remember to do to get your check in the mail. Once you get your account information, and your special affiliate program link assigned to you, you need to do a few more things to make sure you get paid after [...]

Best of the Bit.ly Tools

Quickly becoming my new favorite link shortening service, Bit.ly has a lot to offer, and a wide variety of tools to use with it.  Why is it the best? It offers stats, shortens links and well, I do have to say these tools play a big part too.
Here are a few bit.ly tools I’ve [...]

Intense VPS Hosting Management

Lunarpages is already the ideal solution when it comes to Virtual Private Server hosting, both of the Linux and Windows flavors, so what else makes VPS web hosting with Lunarpages so great?  The Intense VPS Hosting Management.

What features are included with the Managed Intense service?

Free setup of APF Firewall and Root Kit Check on [...]

Great New Database Hosting Tutorials

Deep within the confines of my wiki writing hideaway, I have been hard at work coming up with tutorials and documentation covering how to manage databases with your LPCP powered web hosting account. 
MySQL Web Hosting Tutorials

Create and Delete MySQL Users in LPCP
Create and Delete MySQL Databases in LPCP
Assign and Un-assign MySQL Users [...]

Get $50 Off Your Next Web Hosting Purchase!

Since football season is upon us, what better time to roll out the latest Lunarpages special?  Act fast, as we are only offering this deal for a limited time.  You can now get $50 off any 24 month Basic hosting plan if you use the coupon code TD50. 
Here are just some the awesome [...]

Find Free Icons Faster

Out searching for a new icon or set of icons to use on your web site?  While there are more than a few ways to get this job done yourself, (hire somebody to do it, do it yourself, etc) one way I bet you didn’t know about was the icon search engine, Icon Finder.  [...]

Come Join the Lunar Community

So your stuck with your web site, you’ve run out of webmasters to ask about your project and you need somewhere to go?  One of the often forgotten about jewels of the web hosting web can be found at one easy to remember domain name, lunarforums.com.
The Lunarforums are home to many of the web [...]

Bacon Flavored Link Shortening

So, what is better than link shortening?
Bacon.
What is better than bacon?
Nothing at all.
If you can understand that, then you can understand bacn.me.  This bacon inspired link shortening service is brought to you by those bacon loving people at Bacn.com.  You don’t know them you say?  Why they are just the a group of bacon [...]

A Dedicated Design Resource for Web Designers

Who would have ever thought to look for web designer resources at a place called forwebdesigners.com?  It is so simple, its brilliant.  Here you will find some of the most popular resources for (you guessed it) web designers.  From fonts, to CSS resources to everything in between â€" it has something everybody can get [...]

Lunarpages Sucks

Dear Citizens of Lunarville,
Yeah, I said it â€" Lunarpages sucks when it comes to meeting my expectations. How dare they go above and beyond the call of duty time and time again when I expect far less from them.  Oh, you want an example?
What about the time they offered to renew my account, saving [...]

Get Better Analytics for Online Videos

Have you produced a number of free videos for your site, and are you looking for an easy way to make sure they get shared across the Web?  If so, you might want to look at the in-depth tracking and distribution tool, TubeMogul.
This online tool helps you in two ways.  It helps you [...]

Quickly Create Free Online Polls

Have you been looking around for an extremely easy way to embed a poll into any web site page or layout?   Twiggs is a free service that will allow you to do just that.  All you need to do is fill out your question, give a few answers and then let the people take [...]

PHP Script to Test Database Connections

Need to test if a mySQL database has been setup, associated with a user and working properly?  In most cases where you get a “can not connect to database” issue when installing a script, it is caused by something in your configuration files being wrong. To help you test, create a .php file (could be [...]

August Newsletter is Reeking of Awesomeness

This month’s web hosting newsletter is up and running for all the great customers of Lunarpages.  From LPCP tutorials, to money saving and money making tips â€" we have made sure all our awesome clients are well taken care of. 
See what your missing out on and check out the latest news.

Read Issue 23 of [...]

10 More Free Online Image Editors

Due to high demand, I have been asked to give you all ten more free online image editors from the world of web design.  These ten online photo tools will have you looking like a professional graphic creator in no time at all.  Well, if not that â€" then at least they provide an [...]

10 Fantastic Free Online Image Editors

When it comes to cutting costs, why not drop your expensive image editor?  There are many free alternatives from around the Web that you can use for your simple web site design needs, photo touch-ups and so much more.

Photoshop.com
OnlineImageEditor.info
FlauntR.com
Picnik.com
Aviary.com
Webresizer.com
Pixlr.com
Splashup.com
Pixenate.com
Pixer.us

Have another favorite online image editor [...]

Lunarpages Windows Dedicated Servers – Special Offer

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

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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.
Use coupon spring during checkout and you will save $48 instantly.

After the coupon, your rate will be $4.95 a month instead of $6.95.
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Real Affordable Web Hosting at $2.95 a Month!

Many people claim to give you affordable hosting, but how many web hosts can REALLY follow up with the promise?  Lunarpages has heard the demands of the public, and is more than happy to help you out during these tough economic times.  For the personal site hoster, that is working on a budget, we [...]

Free CrazyEgg Click Tracking – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 5 of 5)

CrazyEgg provides a great service for any webmaster who wants to know more about how his or her traffic is being consumed.  With click tracking and heatmapping, you can see where people are (or maybe are not) clicking on your web site hosted here at Lunarpages.  CrazyEgg’s visualization tools usually cost at least $10 [...]

KeepIt PC Backups – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 4 of 5)

Keeping a backup of your files is always important.  You never know when a disaster might strike, and it is always better to be ready for the worst that might happen.  Lunarpages realizes this, and this is why they provide 3 months free of KeepIt to their hosting customers.  With this awesome backup service â€" [...]

Stopping Spam – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 3 of 5)

Thanks to Lunarpages and our next web hosting freebie, you can stop spam in it’s tracks.  Lunarpages has partnered up with the leading anti-spam e-mail service Gafana to provide 100% SPAM protection, virus protection, email backup, content filtering and a great deal more.
Gafana’s setup takes literally minutes, and after you’ve set a list of [...]

BidVertiser – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 2 of 5)

In need of a way to do a little advertising online for your Lunarpages hosted web site?  My second favorite freebie that you can get with Lunarpages is the BidVertiser credit.
You see, BidVertiser runs what is called a “site targeted PPC network”, which just means you choose where your advertising ads are displayed, [...]

Deep Trawl – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 1 of 5)

All this week I will be covering my own personal favorite five freebies that Lunarpages delivers to its customers for free.  The first tool I wanted to cover was Deep Trawl.  Although this one might not be a big name known by all â€" it is the best when it comes to diagnosing problems with [...]

MooTabs Brings Pizzazz to Your Site Navigation

As a tiny class to help you with the creation of simple tab navigation, MooTabs is perfect for any web designer who wants to dabble with having a smother navigation.  Under 3kb in size, it mixes the power of Ajax, JavaScript and CSS to do some amazing things to your web site’s navigation.
I can’t really [...]

Save $50 on our Basic Hosting Plan – 4th of July Special Deal!

In celebration of Independence Day here in the USA, we are offering you a $50 discount for any new Basic hosting plan purchase!  All you have to do is use the coupon code July4.  That is a great offer for an even greater hosting plan. 
The Basic hosting plan provides you with:
+ Unlimited Disk [...]

Vote for the June 2009 Site of the Month!

There are only a few more days left to vote in our June 2009 Site of the Month contest.  You can check out this link here for more information on how and where to vote:

Vote for the June 2009 Site of the Month!

One of those lucky web sites will not only be able to [...]

Two Great CSS Cheat Sheets

How does the old saying go?  It isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught?  Well, don’t tell anybody I gave you these two great CSS cheat sheets!  Web designers rejoice, as these are two of the most handy things you can have, well… handy when it comes to cascading style sheets.

CSS Cheat Sheet vs2 [...]

Add a Hosting Affiliate Banner to WordPress

Today, in celebration of our new affiliate plan tutorial category for the wiki, I wanted to do something for the Lunarpages affiliates out there.  For those of you who have installed WordPress (and have a widget ready theme) it is super easy to get a Lunarpages banner up and running on the Lunarpages affiliate plan.
Step [...]

Free Design Stencil Kit from Yahoo!

Talk about a nice find.  While browsing through my e-mail, I had found that a reader of the Lunartics blog suggested this resource to cover.  Yahoo! offers a design and stencil kit to web designers out there for free, licensed under the Creative Commons.  That would mean it is free to share and remix, [...]

Unlimited Desktop Backup for Free from Lunarpages!

Now, as a web host, we are always telling customers that one of the most important things they can do is backup their web site’s content.  You can never have enough backups â€" because in the long run, you can never tell when the worst might happen.  In the same sense, you should also be [...]

All the Lunar News That is Fit to Print

Just in case you missed it, Issue 21 of the Lunarpages newsletter has been released.  The big focus this month is on TremenDesk, possibly the best hosted help desk solution you have ever seen before and an exclusive backup deal for Lunarpages clients, courtesy of Keepit.com. 
To steal a line from Ron Popeil, “That’s [...]

10 Awesome Blog Clients to Help You Write

Great tools do not make you a great writer, however it can make you a more productive one.  Here are ten of my favorite blog clients â€" in no specific order.  By using a desktop client to update your blog (rather than the web site interface) you can often gain features like being able to [...]

Robots.txt FAQ

How much do you know about the Robots.txt file?  It can be a handy tool for any webmaster to know more about.  Here are some of the most frequently asked questions I get about this special little file.
What is the robots.txt file used for?
In web site development, the robots.txt file is used as a [...]

A Clean Modern Font for Your Next Logo

Looking for a modern looking font for your next design?  Look no further than the Contemporary â€" Modern font.  This wonderful creation (via MyFox on deviantART) is a great simple font face to use for anything from logos to ad text in your next graphic masterpiece. 
This is font free for public or commercial [...]

Make it Easier for Google Searchers to Find You!

Have you setup your Google profile?  A while back, Google started to show profiles in their search results, so if you want to make sure somebody is able to find you â€" it might be a good idea to set up or update your own Google profile.
To get started, go to Google’s create [...]

Hundreds of Free Stock Photos for Your Web Sites

Stock photography has always been a little scary for me.  Mainly cause most of it you find out there, the people look so creepily happy.  For the most part, they remind me of the kids in the Children of the Corn movies.  Blank stares aside, I have found one great place to grab a [...]

Web Hosting Newsletter Gets New RSS Feed!

Be sure to go re-subscribe (or subscribe for the first time) to our new Lunarpages Newsletter feed.  It has been recently changed, to make it a little more memorable â€" as well as so we can add some interesting new features to it in the upcoming weeks and months ahead.  Here is the NEW [...]

New VPS Hosting Beta Program

We are currently gearing up to open Beta Testing for our new VPS using the power of Citrix Xen Virtualization!!! There is limited space available, so we will handle requests in first come first serve fashion. The Beta VPS will be free for the time of the beta.
Testers will have the option to choose [...]

New VPS Hosting Beta Program

We are currently gearing up to open Beta Testing for our new VPS using the power of Citrix Xen Virtualization!!! There is limited space available, so we will handle requests in first come first serve fashion. The Beta VPS will be free for the time of the beta.
Testers will have the option to choose [...]

Submit Your Web Site to Microsoft Bing

Want to know how you can get more information about how Microsoft’s new Bing search crawls your web sites?  You could easily submit your domain name to their webmaster tools section.  How do you do that?  Let me show you.
First, you will want to go to the webmaster tools page, and login using your MSN [...]

June 2009 Site of the Month Submissions!

Time to submit your web site in our Site of the Month contest over on the Lunarforums.  June is well on it’s way â€" and it has been a light month for submissions, so if you have been reluctant to do it in the past â€" this might be your chance to make it into [...]

Make Your Pages More Tweet-ccessible

Want to make your web page a little more accessible to Twitter users?  You might look to add the re-tweeter from TweetMeme to your own web site layout.  You (or your fans) can promote your web site using the TweetMeme button.  It is a simple and easy way to integrate Twitter onto your blog and [...]

Resize Any Text Box

I need of a way to resize a tiny text box that you want more room in to write? 
Some web site’s comment forms or other text boxes on the web confine you to a little tiny space to get your writing done.  However The Man in Blue has developed a great bookmarklet that [...]

Bring Fancy Bullets to Windows Live Writer

Are you tired of the old boring HTML bullets that may have come with your blog theme, or you want to make them a little more fancy, with a little less work?  If you use Windows Live Writer to update your blog, there is a plugin to give you Fancy Bullets.

After you install this [...]

Five FAQs to Help You Make Some Money!

Did you know that Lunarpages has an affiliate program?  The Lunarpages affiliate plan is a referral service where Lunarpages will reward you with $65, just for spreading the word about Lunarpages web hosting, and getting your friends to sign up. 
Many in the web development community get asked everyday where they should host, and [...]

Real-Time Blog Traffic Widgets

FEEDJIT is a real-time blog and traffic watching service.  One of the neatest services that they provide is the ability to add several different types of widgets to your web site to better identify your visitors and find out where they are from and what they are reading.
You have four different widgets you can [...]

May 2009 Site of the Month Voting!

Voting has started to see who will be the 2009 Lunarforums Site of the Month!  There are a lot of very good choices to pick from this month, so head on over to the Lunarforums to cast your vote. 

Vote for the May 2009 Site of the Month!

This is a fun little contest we [...]

Wizzypage – Great (and free!) Web Site Editor

Looking for another alternative to your bland free web site editors out there?  If you are looking to try something new, give Wizzypage a shot.  This WYSIWYG editor provides true what you see is what you get editing abilities. 
Here is a little more about how it works from the developers:
Wizzypage allows the user [...]

Weekend Project – Create a Google-Friendly Sitemap

Looking for something to keep you busy over the Memorial Day weekend?  If so, how about you create a sitemap?  Better yet, you could create a Google-friendly site map so that you could then turn around and submit it to Google’s Webmaster Tools service, so you can retrieve better information on and how Google crawls [...]

Search More with SearchMerge

Here to help you search FriendFeed, Google, Twitter and more is SearchMerge. 
Think of it as one big collective search engine.  Instead of going to each to get your results, you can now search them all at once.  Now true, we have seen web site that do this before, however â€" SearchMerge does it [...]

Watch Out for Gumblar

As some of the controversy grows around the current Gumblar outbreak, I thought it might be a good idea to go over a few facts that are known, thanks to the reporting of others. I have bundled all these facts onto a forum thread for all to enjoy over at Lunarforums.com. For those of you [...]

Easier HTML Color Grabbing and Saving

 
Looking for a free tool to help you find the right color codes for your web site design?  AdesClrPicker is an easy to use color picker, that really delivers.  The two best things about it are it is totally free and easy to use. 
After you install it, you can right-click on the taskbar [...]

Bricks + Tetris = Fun Screensaver!

For your free fun download of the day, check out briblo.
Now I haven’t had much reason to use a screensaver in a long time, however this great download almost makes it cool again.  Once installed (will work on both Macs and Windows) you have your own fun mix of Tetris and Lego-like bricks [...]

Tips for New Facebook Users

I have been spending a lot of my time on Facebook here recently.  I am far from being a Facebook expert, however I do have a few tips for you if you have not tried it yet, or you were scared away.  Here are some of my own Facebook tips for those of you [...]

Go Get Web Dev Help on the Lunarforums!

Many of our customers may know about our help forums, but others may not, so I wanted to bring to your attention this great resource for information and help.  Created back in the year 2000, the Lunarforums are the oldest branch in the Lunarpages community tree. 
With well over 150,000 customers making up the [...]

Premium Domain Search with Lunarpages

Did you know that Lunarpages also provides a way for you to purchase what would be considered, premium domains?  These are domain names that go for top dollar because they are in very high demand.  For example, what blogging teacher wouldn’t enjoy having the domain blogteacher.com?  All you do is type in the keyword you [...]

Twitter, Super Heroes and More!

Be sure to check out the May 2009 (and 20th!) edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter!  We have tons of informative news, interesting tips and even a little talk about super heroes and how to use Twitter.  What else could you ask for?
Here is some of the fun that can be had from this month’s edition:

LunarNews: [...]

Preview, Review and Download Free Fonts!

Thanks to the free font resource, Fontex,  you too can have a selection of free fonts to choose from for your web site graphics, next time you plan a redesign.  With dozens of free fonts to choose from, you are bound to find one that fits your needs.  You can check them all out [...]

Free Background Images

In need of a new background pattern?  One new resource I stumbled upon this morning that would be perfect for your needs is Pattern8.  From this site, you can download, rate and review tons of tiled background images.
These would be perfect for you if you need to spruce up your Twitter profile, or even [...]

A Web Dev Generator for Every Occasion

Usually, I am not a huge fan of the generate “product X” for free here web sites, however, Generate It does do it in a stylish way.  They do more than just provide you with one generator, they give you 15 and counting!
The web site includes tools to generate your own button, e-mail to [...]

Free 80×15 Button Maker

The 80×15 buttons seem to have gone out of style some in the past few years, however â€" there are still plenty of tools online to help you create them if you are still in need of them.  One of my favorites is the Brilliant Button Maker. 
With this web site, you can set the [...]

Exclude Your IP from Your Google Analytics Stats

Want to stop tracking yourself on your web site statistics provided by Google Analytics?  For this, you can use filters.  The filters in Google Analytics are there to manipulate the final data to give a more accurate report.
To add a filter, click on the edit link for the web page you wish to add [...]

Get a TwitStamp!

Looking around for easy to use badges and graphics to use with Twitter, I ran across a really neat one.  TwitStamp allows you to create a little custom Twitter badge that you can customize to your liking.  You can make one just like this:

Here is just one of the many options you can pick [...]

How to Track File Downloads in Google Analytics

So how do you track file downloads in Google Analytics? 
It is actually easier than you might think.  If you want to track files (like .zip, .pdf, .mp3 or anything else) and see how many times they have been downloaded, you must use the correct corresponding JavaScript code.  As mentioned by Google (if you [...]

Looking for a GeoCities Alternative?

With word coming out that Yahoo has decided to pull the plug on GeoCities, a lot of people are looking for a great alternative.  Lunarpages provides a hosting plan I think would be perfect for any soon to be former GeoCities webmaster, our Quicksite plan.
Where does LPQuicksite outshine Yahoo’s GeoCities? Well, for one you can [...]

What is Your Bounce Rate?

Why is your bounce rate an important thing to keep an eye on, and better yet what the heck is your web site bounce rate? I will answer those questions and let you know the best ways to lower your bounce rate and get people staying on your web site a little ‘bit longer.
What is [...]

Search the Lunarforums via Firefox

Want to search the Lunarpages forums from within Firefox?  This is a plugin I setup some time ago, that I still use to find information or answered on a number of different web hosting topics.  Since I thought it might be helpful to you, I wanted to share it via the blog here.
Download the search [...]

Image Optimization

Did you know that you could save money by optimizing your images?  You see not all images are created equal.  Hosting an image that is a large file size could be costing you disk space, bandwidth and money. 
Keep More of Your Online Visitors
Now not only is it a good idea to optimize your [...]

Beginner Tips for Search Engine Optimization

What does it take to get your web site to the top of the search engine mountain?  Is there an easy way out or does it take hard work and dedication?  I got an e-mail from a Lunartics reader who wants to know:
Hi Mitch, I was wanting to know if you could give us a [...]

What Are the Default Files and Folders for WordPress?

This question come to me via a forum user, so I thought I would share the answer with you all here.  So what are the default files and folders packaged with WordPress?  They are:
/wordpress/
   /wp-includes/
  /wp-content/
  /wp-admin/
      xmlrpc.php
      wp-trackback.php
      wp-rss2.php
      wp-rss.php
      wp-register.php
      wp-rdf.php
      wp-pass.php
      wp-mail.php
      wp-login.php
      wp-load.php
      wp-links-opml.php
      wp-feed.php
      wp-cron.php
      wp-config-sample.php
      wp-commentsrss2.php
      wp-comments-post.php
      wp-blog-header.php
      wp-atom.php
      [...]

Best Cheat Sheets for Web Development

Cheat sheets are becoming a popular way of storing a lot of little tips and tricks all at one central location.  Now in all honesty, none of us are really “cheating” by making use of these tools.  We are just giving our brains a little help when we don’t remember the exact code or steps [...]

Inspiring Web Design

There are tons of places that you can gain inspiration from when it comes to web site design.  Recently, I have been browsing through a number of popular inspiration starting points, and wanted to share them with you all here.  Hopefully they will help to inspire you as much as they have inspired me.

60 More [...]

Best Web Site Speed Analyzers

When it comes to testing how fast a page is loading, and what content might be slowing it down, I only have two favorite sources I like to recommend people check out the Web Page Analyzer and Pingdom Tools.  
Web Page Analyzer
This web site will give you a quick and easy way to test how [...]

YUI Grids CSS Makes CSS Design Easy!

In need of a bare-boned CSS theme for your web site, but don’t know where to go?  One resource I just recently found and now love is YUI Grids CSS.  What is it?  This service from Yahoo! offers you a number of different empty css-powered layouts to use.
Just browsing through the site, and the [...]

E-Mail Support Now Built into LPQuickSite

After listening to user feedback, Lunarpages has rolled out a new e-mail feature for the LPQuicksite hosting plan I am sure you will all enjoy.  Now, instead of going through your account’s control panel to access your e-mail settings, you can do so right from the LPQuicksite interface. 
From there, you can:

Add/Remove E-mail Accounts
Access [...]

April’s Hosting Newsletter!

The April 2009 Lunarpages customer newsletter is out, and ready for you to enjoy.  Got tons of goodies for you all this month, so wanted to make sure we share the goods with our Lunartics readers too.
What is going on this month?

LunarNews - April 2009
One on One with the Lunarpages Trainer
Graphic Links of the Day
April [...]

12 Free Ways to Create a Favicon

Need to create a favicon for your web site, but you don’t have a nice graphics editing program?  There is no need to worry, because there are a slew of online tools that can help you create your own favicon in a matter of minutes.  Here are a few of my favorite choices.

Genfavicon
Favicon.cc [...]

Swiss Spaghetti Tree?

Hope you have all had a happy April Fools’ Day thus far. Keeping with the theme of the day, I bring to you the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957. 

According to the Museum of Hoaxes, “The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they [...]

Find the Right Hosting Plan For You

There are a lot of shoppers out there that are probably not exactly sure which hosting plan they should purchase.  For us who have been in the web hosting world for some time, we might take our knowledge of the web hosting world for granted.  To make things easier though, for first time web hosting [...]

7 Great Joomla Template Resources

I recently had a Lunartics reader e-mail me in search of a few good Joomla theme resources.  Looking around the Web, I started to search out some of the best Joomla theme resources out there, and here are the ones I found.

Joomla-Themes.co.uk
JoomlaPraise.com
Joomla2u.net
ThemesBase.com
JoomlaTP.com
ThemeBot.com
Joomla24.com

Have another Joomla theme or template resource [...]

2 New Web 2.0 Image Tools

Are you in the need of of a quick Web 2.0ish looking banner or badge?  I have two great tools for you to bookmark, and use next time you find yourself in a pinch like that.
Web 2.0 Badge Generator
Between the two, I might like the look and feel of the Web 2.0 Badge Generator [...]

Fun JavaScript Effects for Your Web Site

Ever wanted to know how many of the popular sites like CNN, Nasa, Apple, FeedBurner and others do those cool web site effects?  I got one word for you, script.aculo.us!  This easy to use, cross-browser set of Javascript libraries will give your web sites the instructiveness and design elements you have always wanted.
What can [...]

Syndication Comes to LPQuicksite Blog

RSS feed support is turned on by default whenever you start a blog from inside of LPQuicksite.  RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication gives your blog’s readers a way to know when the blog has been updated, even when they are not viewing the web site. 
How can I edit the options for my [...]

LPQuicksite Storage and Bandwidth Upgrades

The Lunarpages LPQuicksite hosting plan now has no limit to the disk space and bandwidth you may use.  This new unlimited access to both the bandwidth on your account and the disk space you use is a welcomed addition to many who had asked for it.  When you ask for a feature, we love to [...]

Golden Rule on Redirects to Keep Google Happy

Let us say Joe has an old web site, but he wants to change his main domain name and the location of a few pages on his web site.  There are a dozen different ways to redirect a web site, but what would be the best way to get this done?  You want to use [...]

Design Your Own Flash Headers

Tired with boring text, and flash that isn’t interactive?  If so, you will be greatly surprised by the latest new feature we added to the LPQuicksite plan.  LPQuicksite now allows you to edit  templates that contain flash headers.

By doing so, you can give your own template layout another layer of customization, helping to separate your [...]

What Does Above the Fold Mean in Site Design?

A phrase you might often hear tossed about in web design is “above the fold”.  Now what does it mean?  To find out the answer, you have to go back and look at those ancient documents or grandparents used to share information before the time of the Internet.  Yes, I am speaking of newspapers.
In [...]

WordPress Cache Plugins to Help Performance

Often, people ask me, what is the best way to lower the loads to the server resources if I am using a WordPress powered web site or blog? 
Now there are a lot of various tips and tweaks you could do, however the easiest way to get the job done would be to try out [...]

Distraction Free Text Editing

Need a way to simplify your desktop to get a little writing done? 

DarkCopy.com provides a simple to use online text editor to help clear your mind and get you back to writing.  The green on black is not just a throw back to the good old PC days either.  It is done to [...]

Keyword Suggest Made Easy

Having a good idea what your web site’s keywords are is a great way to make sure you meta-tags are in order.  So how do you know what are the best ones to include?  Keywordle, will automatically suggest descriptive keywords for your web site. 

All you have to do is input the URL of [...]

Embed Your YouTube Playlist into Your Web Site

Thanks to relist.tv, you can now deliver a nice flash playlist player for your YouTube videos.  How does it work?  Well, after visiting relist.tv, you just fill out the optoins and then grab the code to copy and paste into your site’s design.
You can embed videos from these types of sources:

Search
A User’s Favorites
or [...]

Grab a Social Network Badge

Looking for some buttons to help promote your existance on the varoius social networks out there?  Try looking around at MySocialButtons.com.  These square badges would look great on any web site or blog.

The social networks covered thus far are:  Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, MySpace, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and Twitter.
The MySocialButtons.com web site [...]

Highlighter Bookmarklet for Any Site

Find yourself reading through a web page and wishing you had a virtual highlighter handy? 
It this situation sounds familiar you need to pick up markit.net, the web’s highlighter.  To use it, all you do is visit the markit.net web site, then drag and drop the highlighter picture to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar.  Whenever [...]

YouTube Video Embedding Comes to LPQuicksite!

Our web site publishing tool and hosting plan, LPQuicksite is getting better day after day.  Once of the most recent features to be released is the ability to add YouTube videos directly into your page using our special importer tools.

First thing you will want to do is login to your LPQuicksite account, then go [...]

Free ICO and PNG Icon Sets

Can’t turn down a deal that is free, right?  One of my new favorite places to go for icons is IconsPedia.  They are one of the best sources around for free icons. 

Now are the icons really free?  Yes they are!  You just need to make sure you stick the rules in that each [...]

Embed Google News into Your Web Site

Google is always coming out with some of the coolest web site enhancements around.  One new tool they are providing for free, for any webmaster out there to use is the NewsShow Wizard.  What does it do?  It allows you to embed your own Google News widget into your web site on any topic you [...]

Track Any Site with Quarkbase

By Mitch �??Detective�?? Keeler
Want to know more about any web-presence out there today?  Quarkbase might have a funny name, however it does have some pretty neat tools if you want to know more about any domain name out there.

Mashing up over 30 data sources and algorithms, this tool tracks everything from social popularity, traffic, [...]

Top Twitter Tools?

There is no doubt that there are a lot of Twitter tools out there, however I would like to know which ones you might think are the best?  Now I haven’t been a dedicated Twitter user for long, but here are my five favorite top twitter tools I have found thus far.
TwitterCounter â€" Keep track [...]

LPQuicksite Has Templates Galore!

By Mitch “WYSIWYG” Keeler
Find yourself unfamiliar with web hosting, but want to put together a very simple web site for your friends or family?  Then the LPQuicksite plan is just right for you needs.
I thought it might be fun today to share with you some template examples right from the LPQuicksite plan:


Just click [...]

Easier Ways to Watermark Your Images

By Mitch “Watermarked” Keeler
Watermarking is the process of embedding information or an image over another image to usually prevent copying.  There are a lot of ways to get it done actually, however I am just going to focus on the picture on picture way of doing things. 
Here is an example of a photo with [...]

Lunarpages is on Twitter

By Mitch “The Twitterer” Keeler

To help get the word out about whatever is going on during the day, or to respond to some of the comments out there in the twitterverse, Lunarpages has gone all twitty!  You can check us out here:
http://www.lunarpages.com/twitter
During the day, I’ll be posting responses to people’s questions, Lunarpages news,  interesting [...]

Add Features to Your Hosting Account

By Mitch “Has Additional Features” Keeler

One of the many things I love about the Lunarpages Web Hosting Support Wiki is the fact that is lays out feature by feature, all the various things you can add to your own web hosting account.  Categorized by plan type, you get to know all your options right [...]

Grab Yourself Some Free Layouts

By Mitch “Loves Freebies” Keeler

Searching for a new web site or blog layout?  One place that was just recently recommended for me to check out is freelayouts.com.  Now with a generic name like that, you would think it wasn’t a great site.  I have to disagree though!  They have tons of great (and did [...]

Create Yourself a To Do List

By Mitch “Like to Get Things Done” Keeler
Find yourself looking at the clock, and wishing there were more hours in the day?  Well, without my own to do lists, I would be totally lost.  As long as I have something to do, written down, in an organized way, I seem to stay on task and [...]

Make Your Own Business Cards Online!

By Mitch “A Little on the Cheap Side” Keeler
Looking for a way to cut costs in the bad economic times, how about making your own business cards, Online?  Not sure if they expect this to be used as a real service or not, FreePDFCards.com is an online tool that will help you make your own [...]

Write in a Web 2.0 Language

By Mitch “It is Monday Already?” Keeler
Here is a neat Online tool that will allow you to spell out any word, using famous Web 2.0 service logos.  I am not exactly sure if this is all that helpful â€" but at least you can say is it fills a void. 
For being such a simple [...]

Fix Your 404 Errors with Errorlytics

By Mitch “Hates the 404” Keeler
Is your site filled with 404 errors?  If so, you might want to check out Errorlytics.
Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but don’t you hate it when you go to a page, and the page you wanted to visit is no longer there?  Well, so do your web site [...]

Voting for the Jan 09 Site of the Month Contest!

By Mitch “The Walking Plug” Keeler
Only a few more days to vote for our Lunarforums Site of the Month contest!  Be sure to hurry up and get your vote in for your favorite!
+ January 09 Site of the Month Voting!
It is site of the month voting time again!  This month we have a nice round [...]

CSS Round Box Generator

By Mitch “Rough Edges” Keeler
While working on the Link of the Day (CSS edition) for the Lunarforums, I ran across a tool that I thought I would share with you all here.  the CSS Round Box Generator is a simple tool that will help you make rounded boxes with the power of a few images, [...]

AddInto – Another Social Sharing Badge

By Mitch “Loves to Share” Keeler
I have mentioned web sites like AddThis.com, that allow you to quickly share your web site links on any number of social networks out there.  There is another new tool however, out in the wild, that you might want to try out.  AddInto does the same thing, allows you to [...]

What to Do When Inspiration Strikes

By Mitch “Like an Elephant” Keeler
Ever had one of those moments, where you had a great idea, but never got it going â€" cause you forgot about it?  Well, if you forgot, then you wouldn’t know that you forgot.. let me start over.  Ideas come to us all the time, are you ready to take [...]

Lunar-view of President Obama’s Inauguration

By Mitch “What Satellites Are Looking at Me?” Keeler
Might not have much to do with hosting, however we are Lunarpages, so anything space related is of big interest to us.  No matter which side of the political fence you are on, you have to admit this satellite photos of President Obama’s inauguration are pretty impressive.

To [...]

2 Great Tools to Grade Your Web Site

Mitch “Loves Site Analytics” Keeler
How does your web site stack up?  Here are two great web site analysis tools you can use to find out, without having to install a script or copy and paste any code into your web site.
Dataopedia - All You Need to Know
I have found a resource that will tell you [...]

January LP Newsletter has Been Released

By Mitch “Likes the Newsletter Too” Keeler
Have you had time to check this month’s edition of the Lunarpages newsletter? 
In this month’s issue we cover:

LunarNews: January 2009

Why You Want to Start an Online Business in 2009

SEO Tips: Step Nine of Ten - Conversion Optimization

Look at Your Site with the New Year in [...]

Top 10 SEO Related WordPress Plugins

WordPress has some pretty good functions built in to help you with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), however you might find you need some plugins to help you along the way.  Here are ten of my favorite WordPress plugins that have to do with making your web site work better with the various search engines out [...]

Auto-Browse the Best of Delicious

By Mitch “Taking it Easy” Keeler
Why do all the mouse clicking, when you don’t have to?  I am closing the week out with a cool web application that will allow you to sit back, relax and view the best of the best from delicious.com. All you have to do is sit there, and let us [...]

New Layout for Lunarpages.com!

By Mitch “Loves the Layout” Keeler

Have you checked out the new Lunarpages.com layout and design?  I must say, it is pretty sleek and stylish!  The new interface includes several new and exciting features - so I encourage you all to go check things out!
Some of the new things worth mentioning are:

More professional interface
Easier [...]

Do You Have an About Us Page?

Mitch “Boot Camp” Keeler
One page that has become a common thing to see, no matter what type of web site it is, is an “about us” type page.  However, some web site are still missing this very important page.  This page is important to have because it lets your visitors know a little more background [...]

Working with WordPress 2.7

By Mitch “Spent the Weekend with WordPress” Keeler
I spent my weekend knee deep in WordPress, updating themes on a few personal projects of mine.  WordPress 2.7 brought in a lot of nice new features, so to help others who might find themselves in the same boat I was â€" here are a series of links [...]

Update Your Web Site Footer This Weekend

By Mitch “Foot Clan” Keeler
Looking for a project to take on this weekend?  How about updating your web site’s footer?  The “footer” of a web site usually is referencing to the bottom of any web page.  Most people are not doing much with this space, but some people are taking advantage of it.

Here is an [...]

40 CSS Layouts to Help with the Basics

By Mitch “Loves Free Things” Keeler
When searching through some of my personal favorite CSS and design resources, I stumbled upon an old favorite of mine - Layout Gala.  It might be a ‘bit old, but the advice and layouts here are as good now as they were then.

Via the web site, you can download up [...]

7 Design Sites to Help the Ugly “Make Money Quick!” Crowd

By Mitch “Hates Info-mercial Web Design” Keeler
Why is it that almost every eBook or “great money making deal” that you see out there is always based around a web page that looks like it was built back in 1995?  That is a question that has just plauged my mind forever.
As an act of public service [...]

Site of the Month Contest for Jan 08

By Mitch “Also a Moderator” Keeler
One secret I don’t think I have mentioned here of the Lunarpages family of sites is the Web Site of the Month contest we have via the Lunarforums.  This month’s contest has started up - so if you are a Lunarpages customers - be sure to submit your URL!
Want to [...]

How to Make Money with Amazon Associates

By Mitch “Amazon-a-holic” Keeler
It is a new year, so are you looking for a new way to earn a little extra cash?

With Amazon’s Associates plan, you man make money by advertising Amazon products.  Via the front page of their web site, they promise 15% earnings for your trouble too.  Here are the three services they [...]

Make Your Web Site More Scannable

By Mitch “Highlight the Positives” Keeler
When developing content online, you have to keep this question in mind.  Is your web page scannable?  Can I quickly scroll over it, speed read and easily pick out the basics I need to know?
In my Google Reader account, I might subscribe to 150 to 200 RSS feeds from different [...]