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Lunarpages March Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsThe luck of the Irish is with you, because you have found the greatest collection of news, tutorials, tips and information in the web hosting world. Lunarpages is back with another excellent newsletter to help inform you about the latest happenings at Lunarpages.com. Do not let any leprechauns steal this pot of gold away from you.
Lunar News – March 2010 – What is new with Lunarpages? Never afraid to innovate to keep our customers happy, we have tons of great news, links and specials that should keep your wallet happy and your hosting account intact. Here are some of the latest happenings from around the Lunar-verse.
Get a Free Custom Web Design! – How would you like to get a professionally design web site design for your domain today? ETMG in co-operation with Lunarpages will be giving away a completely FREE custom web design to select established businesses that apply and meet the following criteria.
Better Server Access Logs – One new features to come to the LPCP web hosting control panel this month is the ability to gain access your server access logs. Anything that happens on your web hosting account will be recorded in the server access logs, if you have enabled the setting from within your LPCP control panel for the web hosting plan you use.
Win Some Marketing Assistance! – Lunarpages wants to help you check out the new SEO and SEM marketing packages first hand. How are they doing that? You can enter to win a free 30-day Basic SEM and SEO program, valued at $389 for free!
Affiliate Hosting Checklist – There is no doubt Lunarpages provides one of the industry’s leading affiliate programs out there today. However, when using your affiliate program information to help your web site visitors, friends, and family members sign up for Lunarpages, there are a few things you might want to double check, to make sure they are off your affiliate checklist so we can pay you up to $65 per person you bring to us.
Live Web Hosting Error Logs in LPCP – One new innovation to come to our LPCP web hosting control panel is live error logging. The error log, for your web hosting account here at Lunarpages, is one of the most important account specific statistics you can gather.
Google’s Real Time Search Future – The way Google indexes your web sites might be changing soon. Rather than relaying solely on the crawling method, they will also be indexing your content instantly. This means as soon as you create a new web page, it will be up on Google in seconds, not days or weeks.
Introduction to CSS Web Design – Adding a Cascading Style Sheet to your current web site layout and save you time and make your web site look a lot more professional in the process. Cascading Style Sheets, or sometimes referred to as CSS, is a style sheet language used to describe how a web page should be formatted.
Make Your Twitter Page Stand Out – How often do you use Twitter? You might just use it to follow a few friends, or you might use it to market your web site projects. There are a lot of ways to use Twitter as a service. My question that I pose to you is, how can you make it better looking?
Fix Web Site Errors with Webmaster Tools – Did you know that Google Webmaster Tools could help you find and fix errors on your web site? As Google crawl through your web site links, it finds and logs all the errors it encounters. It then (if you have your domain setup with a Google Webmaster Tools account) will turn around and tell you what the errors are so that you can get them fixed.
20 of the Web’s Best News Sources – When you have your own web site, and you talk about things that are current, it is your job to stay “in the know” about the latest news. Now with all the sources of news out there, this might be a mighty task. To help you out, we have gathered 20 of the best news sources out there online today.
That is it for this month’s edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter. We hope you enjoy this collection of articles, tutorials, tips and more we have created especially for you, the Lunarpages clients and customers. We always enjoy hearing your reaction, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to news@lunarpages.com.
Introduction to CSS Web Design
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Adding a Cascading Style Sheet to your current web site layout and save you time and make your web site look a lot more professional in the process. Cascading Style Sheets, or sometimes called CSS, is a style sheet language used to describe how a web page should be formatted.
For example, if you wanted to make some text on a web page look bold, you might use this snippet of HTML code:
<strong>this will be some bold text!</strong>
Which seems simple enough. However, what if you want to chance the color, font, and how this text is shown in that spot across all your web pages? Well then your HTML in your pages become a rambling mess. That is where Cascading Style Sheets come in handy.
Cascading Style Sheets allow you to, in a much more organized way, sort out how your web site design looks in a totally separate file, or chunk of code in between the head tags. For example, let say you wanted the title of your page to be bold, green, and a different font style than the rest of the page. In your HTML code, you would use something like this:
<p class=”mycooltitle”>this is my page title</p>
That tells the browser that everything within this paragraph or <p></p> tags will follow the design setup class I have defined as “mycooltitle”. Now, in between the head tags (<head> </head>) I want you to add this:
<style type=”text/css”>
.mycooltitle {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #336633;
}
</style>
This CSS code tells the web browser to apply these design settings to the class marked, “mycooltitle”. It does three things. It says it will use the Verdana font, the font will be bolded, and it will be colored green (#336633 is the HTML color code for a shade of green).
That is how you apply Cascading Style Sheets to your web design and layout of your own web pages. One major benefits of using CSS is that it helps to separate your web site code with your design. This way, you can change one aspect very easily in the CSS file (when or if you start to master external style sheets). I will save that lesson for another day.
View Your Page in Multiple Browsers Online!
Posted by: | CommentsWant quickly to test your web site’s design in a number of different browsers? Adobe’s BrowserLab will get the job done.
While hardcore designers may rather test the real browsers in real running environments, this tool provides you a quick and easy way to check out your domain without having to install numerous browsers. It does it all from the Web. Right now you can test in:
- Firefox 2.0 – Windows XP or OS X
- Firefox 3.0 – Windows XP or OS X
- Internet Explorer 6.0 – Windows XP
- Internet Explorer 7.0 – Windows XP
- Internet Explorer 8.0 – Windows XP
- Safari 3.0 – OS X
- Safari 4.0 OS X
Another cool feature is the Onion Skin view, which will lay one browser preview over on top of another one, to give you a real side by side comparison between the two, to help you fix and glitches there might be.
So sign up and give it a shot at browserlab.adobe.com.
Bonus: Looking for an alternative? Check out BrowserShots.org!
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Mitchelaneous Redesigned (Need More Mitch?)
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Now I do not plug my other projects very often, however I think this is an important enough update to share with the rest of my fans (even my wonderful podcast subscribers)! I just finished up with a brand new redesign of my layout over at Mitchelaneous.com – and I would love your feedback on it.
What is Mitchelaneous? It is my personal blog, with tutorials helping with tech tips, web development and geeky entertainment. Pretty much everything else I want to post about is posted here, that does not fit under the web hosting category of WebHostingShow.com and the Mozilla category or FirefoxFacts.com.
Here are a few of the popular posts to check out too:
- Best of the Free Zombie Flash Games
- Free Mega Man Desktop Icons
- Garfield Without Garfield is Funnier
- 9 WordPress Alternatives
- Get More from Google Calendar
As you can see, I go all over the place with this blog. For the most part though, I try to keep the madness focused on helping you get more out of what you want to do, and provide you with the best advice I can on a number of different topics. From wallpaper downloads, to free custom desktop icons, to the best of the video game world. There is something for everybody’s inner-geek to enjoy.
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Take Better Web Site Screenshots
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Need to take a screen shot of a web site to show off to somebody? By far, one of my favorite programs to take screenshots is WebShot. It is almost the perfect screenshot and web page thumbnail generator utility. How do you use it? You put the web site address you want to get the capture of in the URL text box, and then hit the button labeled, “Start”.
Diving deeper into the download you can also set it up to capture multiple URLs, a specific size image, edit the default browser sizes and more. For most people the free version should get the job done – however if you want even more features you might look into getting the personal or server edition.
To pick it up, or get more help on how to use it – go visit WebSiteScreenshots.com.
Add me on Twitter! Come follow my daily antics, links, tips and more @mitchkeeler on Twitter!© Mitch Keeler 2009 | Check out my firefox help site and my tech blog too!