Archive for August, 2007

Welcome!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

by Amy Armitage
We’ve been talking about a regular newsletter for what feels like forever and finally we are so happy to welcome our wonderful Lunarpages webmasters!
If you have any comments on the various sections within the news site, simply select the comment option and have your say. We encourage your feedback so that we [...]

Kuler Colors - Adobe gets its scheme on

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

by Todd Austin
What is Kuler? Will it keep my beer cold? No, it won’t.
Kuler is Adobe Labs’ latest web application geared toward the design crowd. It is a online color scheme creator, for lack of a better term.
Here’s the main page of the application:

With kuler, you can creat your own scheme, search other users schemes, [...]

Will 2.0 Save the Web?

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

by Tiara Rea

“Web 2.0” is either the greatest buzzword of the century or the worst, depending on what your definition is. And let’s be honest, how many people actually give it a proper definition? Lately, everyone and their brother have been throwing the term around like confetti on New Year’s Eve. The definition in Wikipedia [...]

The Lowdown on Upgrades

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

by Tiara Rea
At the beginning of the year (and then again a couple months ago), we decided to really beef up our servers and offer the utmost in storage space and bandwidth to each and every Lunarpages customer. 250 350 Gigabytes of storage space on a Basic Plan is so much storage, a lot of [...]

Tutorial: Add Social Networking to Your Site

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
So with all this buzz going on around the Web these days about social interaction, are you wondering what your Web site can do to join in on the fun? Well, you don’t have to work from the ground up - especially if you have a popular brand or Web site. I don’t [...]

Design 101: August 2007

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

The Best and Cheapest Ways to Design and Code Your Site
Author: Tiara Rea
As a novice webmaster myself, I know how trying it can be to start a website when you don’t know where to begin. I’m the kind of person who likes to have the design and coding layed out before I do any content, [...]

Best Guy on the Web - Brian Prince

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Amy Armitage

Brian Prince is a digital marketing visionary, and he has been intimately involved with shaping the landscape of the Internet revolution since 1994. For some of us, that’s almost the olden days
As CEO of Best of the Web, Brian Prince re-launched the original web awards portal as a best-of-class, human-edited web [...]

Lunarpages Sits Down with ObscureSound.com

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Tiara Rea
Well, I’m pretty stoked about this little segment of the newsletter, because I nominated ObscureSound.com myself for Lunarpages’ Site of the Month waaaay back in November, as I visit it almost every day to find out what Mike’s got listed for new and upcoming indie music. Being a musician myself, it’s a great [...]

Eric Meyer – A Candid Chat ‘bout CSS & Stuff

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Amy Armitage
Last year my ego was crushed because Kaanon was raving about Eric Meyer who was the Keynote speaker at Webmaster Jam Session … and he didn’t notice that I was on the list of speakers too!
What’s so great about this CSS Guru? What makes so many people attend his conferences, visit and comment [...]

Page Mason: the next great step in flawless web design

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Tiara Rea
Let’s face it – designing your website can be super tough if you don’t have the right tools. Hiring a web designer is great….if you’ve got wads of cash hanging around that you’re willing to toss their way. And you’ll definitely think twice the next time you let your best friend’s cousin’s sister [...]

Lunarpages Affiliate Program

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Tiara Rea
In late 2006, Lunarpages Web Hosting began automatically signing up all new customers to the Lunarpages Affiliate Program, in the hopes that each new customer could earn, at the very least, $65 for one referral. If we received 100 signups/day, that’s $6,500 paid out every single day, not to mention 100 new customers [...]

Cheap Web Site Marketing Solutions

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
Need a few tips on how to get a lot of marketing and press and you don’t want to have to do too much work? Well you are making it a little harder on me but I have a few good solutions to help you spread the word about your own domain [...]