Monday, August 31, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, August 28, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, August 24, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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.  [...]

Monday, August 17, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, August 14, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, August 10, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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 [...]