Archive for January, 2008

December & January

January 28th, 2008

By Amy Armitage
Yes we kind of skipped over the December issue of our Newsletter because we had so much news to share with you all in January! That.. and I was frantically Christmas shopping and playing with my children’s gifts from Santa
In this month’s issue:

LunarNews – January 2008

Legal Mumbo Jumbo – [...]

LunarNews – January 2008

January 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
Well, it’s been a really busy year for Lunarpages Web Hosting. We’ve done just about everything imaginable to keep our services top-notch and our customers happy. We’ve increased storage and bandwidth space, added extra domain hosting features, created an amazing template web design system, started a contest worth $1,000 and 5 Years Hosting, [...]

Legal Mumbo Jumbo – Do you really need it?

January 28th, 2008

We receive inquiries quite often from prospective clients wanting “form” documents to use as Terms of Service to govern the use of their website or from webmasters inquiring whether or not a set of Terms drafted for one operator site (or worse, simply found on an unrelated website) can be used instead of having terms [...]

LunarYear’s Resolutions?

January 28th, 2008

By Amy Armitage
I’m not a big fan of resolutions, and it’s not because I think I will fail (ok.. maybe it is). Let’s just pretend that I’d rather set myself daily goals and do my best to achieve those. With the New Year just passing, I figured I’d hit up the LP Crew [...]

Staff Interview – January 2008

January 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
Have you noticed that something is missing in our LP Staff Interviews? I mean, they’ve been utterly amazing so far, filled with really great LP personalities, and apparently everyone is in love with our previous interviewees, but still, I feel like something is just not as it should be. There’s an element to [...]

Most Confusing Terms in Web Hosting

January 28th, 2008

by Mitch Keeler
It is no secret that when you get into web hosting, or even just hosting your own site there is an entire language of terms you must learn. From error code abbreviations to aggravating ASP acronyms there is a lot to learn. Here is your beginner’s course in hosting terminology 101.
SEO [...]

Creating the Perfect Logo

January 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
A great business needs a lot of features working harmoniously to succeed. You need a unique idea, or at least an idea that the public or your market niche is going to desire. You also need a great team working behind the scenes in several departments, or have a handle on everything yourself [...]

Quick and Easy Hosting with LPQuicksite

January 28th, 2008

By Mitch Keeler
Early this January Lunarpages released a brand new hosting plan named LPQuicksite. The idea? Provide people with an quick and easy way to get a website up and running in two hours or less.
Here is a look at the control panel for your LPQuicksite:

Get Going With Google Sitemaps

January 28th, 2008

by Mitch Keeler
Last month I tackled the troubling topic of Google Analytics and after reviewing some of the feedback I got on the topic I thought that the next logical direction to drive you to would be Google’s Webmaster Tools.
By using this series and set of tools you can see all kinds of information [...]

Winning the Fight Against Comment Spam

January 28th, 2008

By Mitch Keeler
With WordPress, I have developed an almost fool proof way to kill off all comment spam.
It seems like a lifetime ago, but back when I had my blog on one of those other self hosted blogging solutions – comment and trackback spam was horrible. I was getting hundreds of them in by [...]

Want to Earn $180 the Easy Way??

January 28th, 2008

Author: Tiara Rea
Of course you do! Who among us doesn’t want to make a ton of money as quickly as possible? These days, I think it just gets harder and harder to find legitimate ways to earn money online. In my opinion, which could be biased considering I manage our Affiliate Program, Affiliate [...]

Vote for your Favorite WordPress Design!

January 28th, 2008

By Amy Armitage
January 22nd submissions closed for our WordPress Design Contest but it’s not too late to vote!
Over the last six weeks our community has voted on their favorite theme and below are the current finalists:
[Round 1 Finalist]
Revival by Mike Nocek

[Round 2 Finalist]
Damai by eches