Monday, December 20, 2010

Give the Gift of Web Hosting – 50% Off

Do you have a webmaster in your life who is hard to shop for? This holiday season, Lunarpages is unleashing a new service that is a perfect fit for your webmaster’s stocking. Lunarpages Gift Cards are the perfect way to help you loved ones turn their web site ideas into reality. If you have a [...]

Monday, December 6, 2010

EasyBlog – Blogging Just Got Easier – Save 20%

If you are looking for something different for starting a blog, fed-up of Blogger’s limited functionality or maybe demand better control of managing your blog, EasyBlog is as easy as it gets for your new/existing blog. EasyBlog is a premier blog engine created by the people at StackIdeas.com. The software is an extension that runs [...]

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Yogile – Easy Photo Sharing

Want to share photos with friends and family after a get together, but don’t want the hassle of everyone e-mailing their photos around? Yogile is a photo sharing service that makes it incredibly easy to share images privately and within groups. While established photo sharing sites already exist, Yogile is different because it lets multiple [...]

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Why Business Directory Submissions Are Important For Your Business

A Not-To-Be-Beat Offer To Showcase Your Website On These Directories As part of Lunarpages’ SEM-SEO marketing programs, we submit your business information to about 140 directories. You may be wondering why this is important, so we’ll tell you! The foundation of a strong online business identity includes making sure your company’s name, address, phone number, [...]

Monday, November 1, 2010

Save 60% on Flash Optimizer!

Bulky multimedia content can be such a pain for webmasters and website owners, especially when it concerns Flash content – banners, preloaders, etc. Not quite convenient when your website loads slowly, right? We’ve recently come across a great solution developed by Eltima Software. That is Flash Optimizer, which can easily and swiftly reduce your SWF [...]

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Lunarpages Corporate Office – A Spooky Place to Be!

At Lunarpages, you could never accuse us of NOT getting into the holiday spirit!  Our corporate office is like walking into a scene from a scary movie this week. Happy Halloween Everyone! © Lunarpages Web Hosting - Also, don't forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Digitize your Paper Online with Shoeboxed

Let’s face it â€" paper documents, though vital for business purposes, are a huge nuisance. We send letters via email, read books on Kindles and check the news on anything but a newspaper; yet, every time we make a purchase or shake a hand, we are greeted by an annoying paper receipt or business card. [...]

Accessing Your Web Hosting Account Just Got Easier!

Great News! Previously, in order to login to your web hosting account with Lunarpages you were required to visit to lplogin.com If you have lplogin.com saved to your favorites, please remove this and bookmark lunarpages.com as on October 25th, 2010 lplogin.com will be deactivated. You can securely login directly to your account via our homepage [...]

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Spammers and Your Blog

By Michael Yublosky Have you ever received a comment on your blog along the lines of “Wow neat! This is a really great site! I am wondering if anyone else has come across something similar in the past? Keep up the great work!” If I were a novice I might have taken this as a [...]

Monday, October 11, 2010

Mobile Mini-Blogging

At Lunarpages we host the site of Aware Networks, the developer behind Cliqtalk, a new social networking application that provides topic-based and collaborative mini-blogs. Aware Networks has developed a novel mini-blogging application that is seamless between laptops and mobile devices, including the BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, and Nokia mobiles. Cliqtalk’s features include: ► Private blogs where [...]

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Social Media: Accepting the New Reality

by Jeffrey A. Cohen, Cohen & Richardson, PC Social media has become a main stream marketing medium that should be considered in any robust campaign for Internet related products or services. At the same time, it must be clearly understood that there are legal and other issues presented by the use of social media which [...]

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

19 Links to Help Stimulate Your Inner Designer

Finding design inspiration, for any webmaster, can sometimes be tough. We have searched the Web, far and wide, for some of the most inspirational design web sites out there â€" to help you find your creative muse. From art galleries to tutorials, there is a little something here for both design newbies to advanced design [...]

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – iPad Winner

By Amy Armitage It has been a fantastic 6 weeks and we have thoroughly enjoyed this contest and the creativity from our customers!  Thank you to all who entered! The winner of the iPad is.. Peter Han San Diego, California www.beavant.com Hosted with Lunarpages for 2.5 years Not knowing much about web hosting, I decided [...]

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 6 Results

By Amy Armitage Six weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest which means there is only ONE day to go! Again, we could not decide on just 3 winners, so we chose TEN! The creativity is fantastic and the effort from you all is truly appreciated! The sixth week’s winners (10) of [...]

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 5 Results

By Amy Armitage Five weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest which means there is only ONE week to go! Again, we found it incredibly difficult to pick only 3 winners, so we chose FOUR!  We have food designed as a sign, an underwater message, an artist and a make-up artist who [...]

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 4 Results

By Amy Armitage Four weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest which means there are only 2 weeks to go!  It was REALLY difficult this week to pick only 3 winners as the entries were just fantastic! So… we chose FOUR winners! (Actually, we could have chosen another four winners easily this [...]

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 3 Results

By Amy Armitage Three weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest which means there are only 3 weeks to go! The third week’s winners of 12 months of Basic Web Hosting are: Matthew Jensen Airdrie, Alberta www.jensenworks.com Hosted with Lunarpages for 5 years I have hosted with Lunarpages for at least 5 [...]

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 2 Results

By Amy Armitage A couple of weeks ago we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest and the entries are still pouring in and making us smile! The second week’s winners of 12 months of Basic Web Hosting are: Jacqueline Lasahn California www.astrospirit.com Hosted with Lunarpages for 4 years, 3 months On my behalf, my [...]

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I Love Lunarpages Contest – Week 1 Results

By Amy Armitage Last week we launched our I Love Lunarpages Testimonial Contest and we received so many innovative, creative and hilarious entries. One of our staff members submitted a poem just for laughs (of course our staff cannot win any prizes). “I love Lunarpages” by Brian Furphy When my website was ready to go [...]

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Win an iPad or Free Web Hosting by Loving Lunarpages!

By Amy Armitage How much do you love Lunarpages? Enough to share a fun photo of yourself on our website? We are running an “I Love Lunarpages” contest and if you host with us, then you are eligible not only for the grand prize of an iPad, but weekly draws for free web hosting for [...]

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Foundations For Your Powerful Online Presence

Lunarpages, through our strategic partner, LocalDirective, is dedicated to helping you build a powerful online presence that accelerates your business growth. Your most important goal is to establish a firm foundation from which to grow your online presence. Even though it may seem overwhelming with all of the apparent choices, there are only three things [...]

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Lunarpages Newsletter – July 2010

In case you didn’t receive your copy, you can view it online here. This month we covered business growth, design, usability and conversions, sports rituals and how some popular websites looked when they were first created. The Three Foundations For Your Powerful Online Presence Lunarpages, through our strategic partner, LocalDirective, is dedicated to helping you [...]

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Create Your Own .htaccess with cPanel and LPCP

Your .htaccess file, with any Apache based server or hosting account is a very powerful tool that if you can learn to use for your advantage can help you complete many time consuming or difficult tasks with ease. How do you create one though for your web hosting account? This is a question that we [...]

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

SEM and SEO Services

This is from our April newsletter in case you missed it!

We all know that getting your website set up is just the beginning of growing your online presence. For that reason, Lunarpages is dedicated to bringing you the information and resources you need to accelerate your business growth. Check out our website for information about [...]

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lunarpages New Web Design Plans

At Lunarpages we are not just a hosting company. After 10 years in business, we like to offer the full service to our clients including domain name registration, SEO and SEM services, additions to your account such as Facebook, AdWords and MyAds coupons for incredible discounts… AND… Web Design services!
If our QuickSite template plan [...]

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

What Does Your Mosaic Look Like?

This is a great visual representation of who follows you on Twitter.  We have a Twitter account @lunarpages and below is our Mosaic.  Is it anything like the Mosaic site on FlashForward? ;)
Get your twitter mosaic here.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Make Gmail Your Lunarpages E-mail Client

We ran this article in our newsletter this week.  In case you missed it :)
Did you know that you can use Gmail as a POP3 e-mail client? This way you can both send and receive mail as you@yourdomain.com through the Gmail interface.
If you have ever found yourself wanting to use Gmail more, but did [...]

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Get Professional Payment Processing

Have you set up your own e-commerce store or shop, but have not yet found the perfect payment processor to make your web site a success?  Look no further than the new payment processing services from Lunarpages.  We have teamed up with First Data to bring a fast, secure and effortless way to pay.

By adding [...]

Get Better Professional Payment Processing

Have you set up your own e-commerce store or shop, but have not yet found the perfect payment processor to make your web site a success?  Look no further than the new payment processing services from Lunarpages.  We have teamed up with First Data to bring a fast, secure and effortless way to pay.

By adding [...]

Monday, May 24, 2010

Create a Unique Tiled Background

Looking for a way to create your own tiled backgrounds?  Look no further than Repper.  This awesome online tool will help you create a pattern out of almost anything.  The patterns you create would be perfect for your Twitter profile or even your own web site.

So how does it work?  You upload any image you [...]

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Get Better AdSense Ads Performance

In honor of the promotion we have going currently where ALL USA and Canadian Lunarpages clients get $100 in AdWords credits, we wanted to focus on some helpful tips to help you match your advertisements on your web to your content.  Thankfully, the Google AdSense team has come up with an easy solution called section [...]

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Simple and Clean WordPress Theme

Looking or a minimalist them that has just a touch of color?  Look no further than the Under the Influence theme for WordPress.  This great free theme for WordPress keeps things nice and simple with the ability to modify the colors to something more custom and change the layout from 2 to 3 columns too.

Another [...]

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Full Screen Text Editing Made Easier

The great thing about full screen text editors is they help to take away all other distractions so that you can focus on your writing.  One of the best programs to help you get your full screen text editing or writing done is WriteMonkey.

WriteMonkey is one feature rich full screen editor.  Here are some of [...]

Longest HTML Tag Cheat Sheet Ever!

Looking for a cheat sheet to help you with your HTML woes?  Look no further than VisiBone, which provides one of the longest ones we have ever seen.

We highly suggest that all webmasters bookmark this resource, because it is very handy to have at your fingertips.
Ever forget how to leave in a comment?  They have [...]

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Excellent Web Site HTML Editor

Looking for a one of a kind web site HTML editor?  Look no further than Code Lobster.  Code Lobster, PHP edition is perfect when it comes with working on a number of different web site scripts written in PHP.
Some of the features included are:

PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code highlighting
PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code collapsing
HTML autocomplete
Autocomplete [...]

Monday, May 3, 2010

What is Your Twitter Score?

Everything else has a score measurement system, why not Twitter?  Ever wanted to know how you rank on Twitter?  Now you can find out for yourself using Twitter Score!  This fun online service will tell you your score on Twitter, depending on your follower, rank, friends and updates.

As an example, we did a quick testing [...]

Friday, April 23, 2010

Get Your Spelling in Check

Watching over your own grammar usage can be an easy thing from some, but might be a hard thing for others.  Thankfully though I have found two excellent resources for you to check your own web page’s content, e-mail reply or blog post before you make it public to the world.


After the [...]

Monday, April 19, 2010

Scroll Clock

See what you can do with a little imagination and some unique server side tools?  The Scroll Clock keeps perfect time, and also shows off what you can do with MooTools (a compact JavaScript framework).  Seen any other neat sites like this?  Leave them in the comments!
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Most Popular Hosting Posts of 2010 (…so far)

Since today is Friday, and things are pretty calm here in the Lunarverse â€" I thought today would be a perfect day to take a look  back at some great guides, links, tips and tutorials of 2010. 
Wait, what do you mean 2010 isn’t over yet? Well, then let us look at the best [...]

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Top 5 Web Site Statistics to Monitor

When you have a web site of any size or shape, you come to realize that statistics, in various forms, are important to watch.  They let you know how well you are doing, and what type of content seems to be the most popular.  With all the different types of statistics to watch, I [...]

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How to Develop a Web Site Maintenance Routine

When and how do you perform maintenance on your own web site?  Some people do it every once in a while, and many do not do it at all. Today, I am going to share with you my own web site maintenance routine, and hopefully a few of my ways of doing things might [...]

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Check Out the Web’s Best Logos

Looking for a place to get some inspiration for your own web site or business logo?  Look no further than LogoBliss.com.  This database of awesome designs will be sure to inspire you to create something just as great.


For each logo, you are treated to a profile which gives you a bigger [...]

Download Some Free Open Design Templates

In search of a new web site design?  One of my favorite sources for free web site templates and layouts is OpenDesigns.org.  This listing of the latest free open source designs is definitely worth bookmarking if you are looking for a place to gain inspiration for your own design, or you want to pick [...]

Thursday, April 8, 2010

10 Best Bookmark and Share WordPress Plugins

What ways to do you give your blog readers to bookmark, share or save things you have posted?  With WordPress, and the powerful plugins, you can extend sharing and saving bookmarks, and take the experience to a whole new level. 
Here are 10 of the most popular bookmarking related plugins for the WordPress publishing platform.
 AddToAny [...]

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Padding Versus Margins in CSS Design

Do you know the different between padding and margins in CSS web site design?  That was the very interesting question posed to me via e-mail by one of the great Lunarpages web hosting customers, yesterday.
I have trouble telling the difference between what padding is in CSS code and what the margin is, when [...]

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

CSS Float Basics

In CSS, the term float usually describes when an element can be pushed to the far left, or the far right, allowing other elements to wrap around it.  Think of it as how you often see things listed in the dictionary.  You have the description to the left, and the image of that thing [...]

Monday, April 5, 2010

Tons of Free Templates at Free CSS!

I am still searching the Web for the best free template and free layout databases.  This time around, I want to tell you about Free CSS.  This web site has thousands of free web site templates you can download, customize and use on your own web hosting account.

Here are a few example free [...]

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Monitor Lunarpages via Google

Want to take our blog (your favorite web hosting blog, Lunartics!) with you to Google Reader or the iGoogle homepage?

It is easy to do.  It is also free for both Lunarpages and non-Lunarpages clients!
The first step would be to visit this link here:

Add the Lunarpages Blog to Google

That in turn, will give you [...]

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Better Desktop Organization (with Wallpaper)

Looking for a way to organize those desktop icons?  Look no further than this great wallpaper. You can grab the wallpaper used here.  Anybody else have a unique wallpaper they use to organize their desktop icons?  Feel free to share in the comments!
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Help With Browser Size in Layout Design

How can you determine the best placement of elements on your web site, such as a donate button or an RSS subscription button?  The Google Browser Size tool attempts to tell you where the best placement might be.  Depending on the size of the browser window, some of your web site’s parts may be [...]

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Free Layouts from Open Web Design

For general free web site designs, you can do no wrong at Open Web Designs.  This web site highlights some of the best free open source web design layouts on the Web.  With well over 3,000 to choose from you are bound to find the right layout for your next web site project.
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Free Themes from WordPress.org

One of my favorite features on the WordPress web site is the free themes directory.  There you can find hundreds of themes to use with your own WordPress powered web site.  So now the question is, what makes WordPress.org such a delectable place to find free blog themes? 

Here are a few example [...]

Monday, March 29, 2010

Upgrade to a Bigger Better Hosting Plan

How can you change or upgrade your hosting plan from one type to the next? Lunarpages provides many different web hosting plans, of many different shapes and sizes.  We also provide service oriented plans like the e-mail hosting plans or domain hosting plans, that centralize around one basic service.  Thankfully, Lunarpages has made the [...]

Thursday, March 25, 2010

10 Best Google AdSense WordPress Plugins

Are your web site advertisements not performing like they should?  Would you like to have more control over your Google AdSense ads and how they are displayed in your WordPress powered web site?  I have searched the Web for the ten best Google AdSense related plugins.  We have plugins here that will help you manage [...]

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Lunarpages Takes On Tough New York Times Web Hosting Questions

The New York Times recently asked some very interesting questions as it pertains to what people should be looking for when it comes to finding the web hosting service that is right for them.  As a web host, I thought I would tackle some of the questions they brought up one on one.

How much [...]

Lunarpages Answers New York Times Hosting Questions

The New York Times recently asked some very interesting questions as it pertains to what people should be looking for when it comes to finding the web hosting service that is right for them.  As a web host, I thought I would tackle some of the questions they brought up one on one.
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Friday, March 19, 2010

UnderCon – Perfect WordPress Pre-Launch Page

Are you working on launching or maybe even re-launching a WordPress powered web site?  If so, you might want to slap up a quick “under construction page” to keep people happy until the final version of the web site is ready.  UnderCon, a great theme for WordPress will help you do that with style. [...]

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Double Save Your Work to a USB Drive

Nothing kills your will to live faster than losing a lot of work you have been spending hours upon hours creating it.  Not that I am bitter about my own paste experiences or anything.  With that thought in mind though, I thought it might be a good time to introduce you to Back4Sure. 
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Win a Free 30-Day Online Marketing Program

Lunarpages now provides one of the industry’s best online marketing offerings out there today.  To help celebrate the successful launch of the Lunarpages Marketing and Advertising plans we are going to give one user 30 days of professional online marketing help for free.

So, what exactly will the lucky winner get?
One lucky Lunarpages [...]

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Add a Second E-mail to Account Records

This is something I would encourage everyone to do, as it is a very important means of communication for us to have on record.  Please take a few minutes of your day to give us a secondary e-mail account we can reach you at.  This way, we have one more way to get in contact [...]

Monday, March 15, 2010

Fun “Guess What I’m Drawing” Game

Looking for a fun way to spend a few extra minutes of your day?  If you are looking for an escape from your Monday morning blues â€" give Gartic a try.  This web-based drawing game is a lot of fun.

The idea here is to join a room, and then have everybody take turns [...]

Friday, March 12, 2010

Newsletter Marches Out Web Hosting Contests!

The March edition of the Lunarpages customer newsletter is packed full of great web hosting news, tips and tutorials.  To top it all off, Lunarpages announced two new contests you can enter too.

Some of the other features from this month’s edition include:
Better Server Access Logs Come to LPCP
Your Affiliate Web Hosting Checklist
News on [...]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Free Online Image Editor

Looking for a great way to edit images, photos and more without having to install any sort of program to your PC?  The best online image editor out there these days is definitely Aviary. 
It does much more than just your basic image editing.  Here are some of the tools they provide:

Image Editor
Color [...]

Monday, March 8, 2010

5 Most Popular .htaccess Tips and Tricks

There are tons of things you can do from the .htaccess file inside of your web hosting account.  From redirecting the users to controlling who can get in and who can get out, it is a very useful file to have on your hosting account.  To help out the new web hosting clients and [...]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Sweet Site Tips for National Cupcake Day

Who doesn’t love a cupcake or two? 
In celebration of National Cupcake Day, I give you some web site tips that will be sure to leave your web development sweet tooth wanting more.
Socialize Yourself
There are many easy ways you can plug your social profiles or micro-blogging services out there.  Here we have [...]

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Easy Plugin Management with WordPress

Installing plugins within WordPress itself, rather than downloading them and re-uploading them to your hosting space manually has been around for some time now.  However, I don’t think many people have discovered this great feature that WordPress has to offer.  Let me guide you through installing a plugin using WordPress on your blog hosted [...]

Monday, March 1, 2010

Web Hosting Gift Cards

The Lunarpages Gift Cards are the perfect choice for any webmaster on your holiday or special occasion shopping list.  Now, you can purchase the gift of web hosting for your family members, friends and co-workers, and let them experience the outstanding support and performance that Lunarpages has to offer.

Once purchased, our Lunarpages [...]

Friday, February 26, 2010

Discount SEO and Marketing Services

Lunarpages wants to help you develop a better digital marketing strategy for your online business or web site, today. With the Lunarpages Online Marketing Services, developed in partnership with digital advertising agency LocalDirective you will soon be on the road to web site success.
All you do is pick the one of the three tiers [...]

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Free Web Site Design Giveaway!

Finding yourself in the need of  new web site design?  Lunarpages, and their newest web site design partner Evolve Thought | Media Group want to give you one.  They are giving away a completely FREE custom web site design to establish businesses that apply and meet the following criteria.

Must be a Lunarpages.com customer with an [...]

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

3 Ways to Say Goodbye to the Guestbook

While there are many guestbook scripts active out there these days, I think it is about time the guestbookers of the world join the rest of us in the year 2010.  The idea of hosting a guest book has come and gone, and has been replaced by much more efficient ways of communication.
So what could [...]

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How to Run Any OS From Within Windows – Part 2

Yesterday I showed you how to get a virtual machine setup from within your current operating system using Sun VirtualBox.  Now, if you have not skipped ahead of me in the process I am ready to share with you step number two.  Now that our virtual machine is ready, it needs an operating system.  Today, [...]

Monday, February 22, 2010

How to Run Any OS From Within Windows – Part 1

What if you could test practically any operating system from within your current computer setup?  By setting up a virtual machine inside of your current computer, you can do exactly that â€" and the best tool to use to get this done is Sun VirtualBox.  I am far from being any sort of operating [...]

Friday, February 19, 2010

Common Sense Password Picking Tips

The important key thing to remember about any password is to keep it easy to remember, but hard to guess.  It might be overlooked by some, but having a good password can mean a lot when it comes to web site security.  Hackers can often guess your password if it is a person, place [...]

Thursday, February 18, 2010

More LPCP Web Hosting Tutorials and Features!

Lunarpages has been hard at work giving it’s customers even more great web hosting tutorials via the web hosting wiki.  The LPCP control panel has released a slew of new features, and the Lunarpages wiki has been updated so that you know how to use all of them.

Here are some of the [...]

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Build Your Own Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, Online!

Does your web site have a terms of service or privacy policy?  Now, there are many web sites on the Web that really do not require these two documents to be posted, but there are many that could be helped by getting these legal terms posted too.  To help you out I have found [...]

Monday, February 15, 2010

Web Hosting News You Can Use!

Better late than never, the January/February edition of the Lunarpages web hosting newsletter is out, and ready to be enjoyed by the masses.  This month we have tons of web hosting tips, tutorials and news to share with you all, so be sure to check it all out, today!
Lunarpages is introducing many neat new [...]

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Get Free Google AdWords Credit!

Did you know that Lunarpages is giving to its customers upwards of $50 to $100 in free Google AdWords credit?  If you have never tried advertising your business or web site on Google, and you are Lunarpages client â€" you just lost your last excuse not to at least try it out.  You can now [...]

Monday, February 8, 2010

How to Subscribe to Lunartics

Often we overlook the obvious questions posted to a blog.  One of the most obvious questions would be how do you subscribe an stay updated when new blog articles are posted to the Lunartics blog?  Today I’ll let you know what all your options are, so that you can use the one that suits [...]

Friday, February 5, 2010

Free Facebook Ads Offer from Lunarpages

There are over 200 million people out there on Facebook, have you tried to reach them?  Advertising through Facebook can be a great way to get your business or web site off the ground â€" and Lunarpages is here to help you get started with a $25 – $50 discount on Facebook Ads. 
By [...]

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Add Fixed Social Buttons to WordPress

When it comes to marketing yourself online, making sure everybody knows of your standing among the social networking sites out there is always a positive.  if you are using WordPress to publish your web site, then this plugin will be perfect to quickly add fixed social buttons to your domain.
The Fixed Social Buttons plugin [...]

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Best Alternative Comment Systems

Two online services out there are really battling it out for your attention and use.  Disqus Comments and Intense Debate are both top notch commenting systems.  Which one though will really help you make your web site’s comment section look more appealing to new web site visitors?


Disqus Comments
Disqus Comments is the perfect comment [...]

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

How to Setup a Twitter Widget

If you have a Twitter account, and use it regularly, then there is no reason not to share your most recent tweets with the rest of the world on your own web site.  Thankfully, Twitter makes this a relatively easy thing to do, with the various widgets they provide to all Twitter users. 
On [...]

Monday, February 1, 2010

Easier Watermarking for Images

Need an easy way to watermark your image collection before you upload them to your web site?  If you don’t have an expensive photo editor to get the job done, check out Watermark Image.  This free program, available on multiple version of Windows, will get the job done.


Watermark Image is a free [...]

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

10 Most Popular Joomla Security Extensions

Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems out there.  Being the most popular does have it’s price though, you have to pay more attention to security related issues.  To help you out, I thought I would find then of the most popular security related extensions for the Joomla CMS script.
JoomlaCloner
JoomlaCloner is a [...]

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Pay for Web Hosting and Make a Profit!

These are rough economic times, so with that said â€" how would you like a fool proof way to not only pay for your own hosting account, but make $87 in profits just by giving your opinion on who your friends or web site visitors should host with?  I’ll let you in on this [...]

Monday, January 25, 2010

Quick and Easy Site Generation

Need to get a web site up in a hurry?  Just want to plug and post?  You might want to check out SiteGenWiz, a web site creator for HTML novices and people who don’t want to hassle with learning how to code a web page.  All you have to do is type out your [...]

Friday, January 22, 2010

Premium RatePoint 60 Day Free Trial!

Need to create a mailer to send out to all your web site clients or customers?  With RatePoint, you can do that and so much more.  They are one of the world’s leading customer feedback and e-mail marketing tools out there.  If you have a Lunarpages hosting account, you can try out their services [...]

Thursday, January 21, 2010

55 Favorite WordPress Plugins

WordPress is one of the Web’s most popular and powerful publishing platforms.  When you add plugins to the mix, the enhancements that make WordPress even better, you have no reason not to use it as your content management system of choice.  Plugins for WordPress allow you to twist, turn and convert WordPress from just [...]

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What is Your Favorite Lunarpages Improvement?

 
Over the past year and beyond, we have done a lot to improve every aspect of the web hosting we provide at Lunarpages.  What I want to know from all of you is â€" what is your favorite improvement Lunarpages has made overall? 
I would really love to hear some feedback on this topic, [...]

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Free Toy Inside!

We are all looking for that holy grail that will make our web sites more successful.
I have found it.
You do not have to wait till tomorrow, or six weeks from now, or even ten minutes from now.  I want to share with you my secret on how you can make your web site better, this [...]

Monday, January 18, 2010

Affiliate Hosting Campaign Tracking

Lunarpages affiliate program members get a lot of tools to use, when it comes to marketing.  An affiliate advertising campaign is a great way to track the success of one particular affiliate link, in comparison with another one.  At Lunarpages, you can track your own affiliate tracking campaigns with just a simple quick edit to [...]

Friday, January 15, 2010

Checking Web Site Quality

Quality is a characteristic property that defines the nature of something.  More often than not, you hear various people tell you that quality is the key to having a successful web site.  What exactly does that mean though?  If you think that answer is as useful as kissing your sister, stay tuned.
Quality Advice About Web [...]

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Top 7 Reseller Hosting Tips

The world of reseller hosting might be a little confusing to some.  However, with the right tips in hand â€" anybody can be a reseller hosting success. In a nut shell, reseller hosting is a form of web site hosting where the account owner has the ability to use their allotted space and bandwidth [...]

Reseller Hosting for Webmasters

Lunarpages now provides to you a reseller plan that any webmaster would be happy to have.  The new Lunarpages Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan is the perfect web hosting solution for webmasters and developers looking to start their own mini-hosting empire.  We provide all the tools, features and services, you just provide your own web [...]

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Is Google Down?

This is the sentence that we all dread to hear ask.  Is Google down?  Now, you can always pull up Google in your browser, and check for yourself â€" however I have a better place for you to check and see what problems are going on with Google. 

The Google Apps Status Dashboard [...]

Monday, January 11, 2010

Update Your Favorite Programs at Once

Wish you could scan all the programs on your PC at once, and get them all updated in a hurry?  It is nice when you have programs like Firefox that update themselves, however â€" for those that don’t I introduce to you the File Hippo Update Checker.
This free program, once installed, scans your [...]

Thursday, January 7, 2010

4 Great Wooden WordPress Themes

Want to give your WordPress powered web site a wooden look and feel?  I have always been a big fan of the wood themes, mainly because they remind me of the old office chambers you remember in the old movies.  Where the room is surrounded in book, you have a large oak desk in [...]

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Use Gmail With Your Domain’s E-mail Account

I have a rather wacky e-mail setup, due to the fact that I have so many accounts to manage.  With that in mind, I found the perfect solution for my e-mail needs, and hopefully it will work for you too.  Did you know that you can use Gmail as a POP3 e-mail client?  This way [...]

Monday, January 4, 2010

How to Submit Your Site to DMOZ

With the new year upon us, I thought I would start the year off with a helpful suggestion everybody should do.  Many search engines out there rely on Dmoz.org for both information, and use if a web site is listed or is not listed there to weigh out how you perform in the search [...]