Archive for 'Tips and Tricks'

Free Ruby on Rails PDF Book!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Author: Tiara Rea
So I’m the kind of person who shops at thrift stores and buys shoes for $1 and then brags about it constantly. I love things that are both useful and inexpensive, clothes that are true vintage and handed down, and more than anyone else I think, I love freebies! When I lived [...]

cPanel Help and How-to FAQs

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
With the Lunarpages Basic and Business accounts, cPanel is the control panel of choice. Being one of the standards in control panels for a number of years, there are both a lot of advantages and disadvantages of this product. With complexity comes questions, so here are a few of the most [...]

Lunartic Webmaster Tips for October

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
Some of you might not be aware that Lunarpages not only does a newsletter, we also do a blog as well. Where our newsletter is here to both inform and entertain the Lunarpages clients, the Lunartics blog is more about helping every webmaster out there get more from their Lunarpages hosting [...]

Design 101: September 2007

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Author: Tiara Rea
Last month, I introduced many of you to some great resources for DIY web design and coding. This month, I’d like to take the same route but also give it a different spin and offer some links to sites you said you wanted! So let’s get started.
FavIcons!!!
Okay, so not everyone is as [...]

Lunar FAQs - CHMOD, Missing Images and Changing Plans

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
I get the honor and privilege to talk with a lot of Lunar-customers day in and day out. Between newsletter issues, I was able to jot down a few questions that seemed to come up again and again so I could share the answers with you all.
What does CHMOD or “Change Permissions” [...]

Fantastico the Magnificent

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
There is one tool that probably gets more attention than the rest at Lunarpages as far as your hosting account goes. The other I hear are even a little jealous of its popularity. Fantastico is hands down one of the neatest addition to your cPanel.
Installable Scripts at Your Fingertips
If your new [...]

Getting a Handle on Domain Name Types

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
By now, if you have spent any time with your Lunarpages hosting account, you know what a domain name is. It is that thing that helps point people from their location to your web site’s location on the server. Did you know there are many different types of domain name? [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Free Tools for Webmasters

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
If you think of owning your web site as sort of like owning a house, I am sure you would follow me if I told you that every so often you need a few good tools to do some home improvement. On the Web’s side of things, there are dozens of tools out [...]

Jumping Into E-mail 101

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
Getting your e-mail account up and running might be different from program to program and method to method, but here is the general rundown of the information you will be asked for.
Display Name: Your Name as You would like it to appear
User Name (or Acount Name): Your e-mail address or just your user [...]

The Basics of FTP at Lunarpages

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
For those new to the web hosting game, the jargon tossed around when you are first getting your feet wet might seem both intimidating and confusing. A lot might be assumed as far as your knowledge goes, but Lunarpages wants to remember that not everybody is a grade A webmaster from day one. [...]

Getting Started with Google AdSense

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
Want to make some cash on the side from your web site? One really good way to get this done would be to add Google AdSense ads to your layout. Here are the basics that you need to do to get started.
Google has to approve you before you can get your [...]

How to Transfer Your Domain

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Author: Mitch Keeler
There is no requirement for you to transfer your domain name over to Lunarpages. One reason you might like to do so though is to have all of your hosting options available to you at one place. This way you don’t have to run to this web site to do this, and that [...]