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 [...]