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 [...]