Friday, October 30, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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, [...]

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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 [...]

Monday, October 26, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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, [...]

Monday, October 19, 2009

Measure a DomainĂ¢€™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 [...]

Friday, October 16, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, October 9, 2009

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! [...]

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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 [...]

Friday, October 2, 2009

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, [...]

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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 [...]