Monday, June 29, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, June 26, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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, [...]

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, June 22, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, June 19, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, June 15, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, June 12, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, June 8, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, June 1, 2009

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 [...]