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Free Video Tutorial Fun – Podcast 203
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I have not one but two ways you can use the power of some awesome online tools to create your own video tutorials, for web hosting or anything else on your computer screen. Also I’ll explain the myth of unlimited hosting and talk a little about what the web hosting world is doing about the disaster in Haiti, all on this edition of the Web Hosting Show.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 203!
Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.30 MB
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Create Your Own Video Tutorials – For any web host out there, having video tutorials showing off your services is a nice thing to promote to your customers. It is always better to show somebody how to do something, rather than just have them read text. If you are looking for a low-cost way to create your own simple tutorial collection, look no further than ScreenToaster.
- Unlimited Hosting, Fact or Myth? – When you walk into an all you can eat buffet, nobody expects you to eat all the food in the restaurant. You might fill up your plate three or four times, but you can not eat everything in sight. The same could be said for unlimited services you might see when it comes to web hosting.
- Web Hosts Helping Haiti Victims -It is always a good thing when you can share some positive news about web hosts joining web hosts for a good cause. Hosting for Haiti is all about the biggest and brightest web hosting companies in the world coming together to support the victims of the earthquakes that happened in Haiti last month.
- Instant Screencasts for Twitter and Beyond – Twitter makes for a pretty nice way for a web host to get it’s message out to their customers quickly. You can send a message to everybody that is following you, or you could answer just one person, if needed. Screenr is the way to get that job done. You can instantly record a screencast, all with web based software – and share it anywhere.
Quick Tip #4 – The Clippings add-on for Firefox makes for a great way to store your own quick responses for your web hosting customers.
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Wiki-tastic Web Hosting Resources
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Did you know that Lunarpages hands you a handbook on the entire web hosting industry, as soon as you sign up for a web hosting account? That handbook in question is the Lunarpages Web Hosting Wiki. Within the pages of the wiki, you will find over 340 tutorials, resources, and more to both educate and inform you on and about the web hosting world.
This month we have collected some of the most popular articles we have published to date, to help you learn more about your Lunarpages web hosting account and everything you can do with it.
This is our internal page where you can learn more about the message board script, phpBB.
PHP and Register Global Variables
A good tutorial written about register global variables.
Here you will find a slew of tutorials, tips and more to help you with your e-mailing at Lunarpages!
Are you in the need for a php.ini file, but your web hosting account is lacking one? Then this is the tutorial for you!
Check out this tutorial to learn more about how to simply install a number of third party scripts and services quickly and easily from within the LPCP on your web hosting account.
Third-Party Scripts Help Category
Here you will find help, links tutorials and more for a lot of the third-party scripts you see come with your web hosting plan, and some that can be easily installed by hand.
This tutorial covers all the basics you need to know when it comes to backing up and restoring your backups, with your LPCP controlled account.
The most helpful online resource out there for our great Lunarpages affiliates!
Learn everything there is to know about FTP!
Account and Control Panel Logins
Learn about how to login and use the various services supported at Lunarpages!
Web Hosting Wiki Category Page
Here you can find a very simple/straight forward view of all the tutorial categories we have on the wiki. It is kind of an alternative to the main index page.
When it comes to domain name management via your control panel, LPCP offers a great way to park a domain name, where you need it, on your hosting account. A parked domain name would be one that is placed on top of a location.
Lunarpages does not only do web hosting, we do domain name registrations too!
Learn more about how to update or change your payment methods here at Lunarpages for your hosting account.
web hosting help, tutorials and tips for our dedicated hosting clients.
Change the Primary Domain Name
A guide helping you learn how to change your primary domain name associated with your hosting account.
Learn how to setup a subdomain using the LPCP web hosting control panel.
Get more familiar with the e-mail limitations within your shared hosting account.
Adding private domain name registration protection to your domain name registered with Lunarpages is a good way to keep your personal information secret, and out of the public eye.
Favicons are those little graphics you see by your URL in the address bar of many of the world’s most used browsers out there.
How can I gather more information about the version of PHP that is installed on my hosting account?
Many helpful tutorials here to help you learn more about the Plesk control panel.
That is it for this month’s link list. Remember, you can always check out the archives of lists we have published before on the Lunarforums. Also, go visit and bookmark the Lunarpages Web Hosting Wiki. It is the definitive guide on all thing Lunarpages and all things web hosting.
Lunarpages September Newsletter – Back to Web Hosting School
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Do you hear that?
The school bell is ringing, the class is about to start, and we have a new newsletter to do your learning from. What is on the proverbial black board this month? We have a plethora of announcements, news, tutorials and guides for you to use.
- LunarNews: September 2009 – What is the latest news for the month of September? We have lots of web hosting goodies for you!
- Affordable Website Design Packages from Lunarpages – Check out the latest on and about our new web design packages. Get both your design and hosting from Lunarpages.
- SEO Tips: Step Ten of Ten – Keeping it Up – In the last of the SEO-inspired series we will help guide you through how to keep up your good optimization practices.
- Easy Ecommerce with Miva Merchant – Looking for an affordable but powerful ecommerce and merchant solution to combine with your web hosting at Lunarpages? As usual, we have an exclusive partner offer that can help you attain all your ecommerce hosting goals!
- Lunarpages Wants to Hear From You – We want to hear from our customers and get to know what we can do better. Take this survey, and you might get up to one year of web hosting for free!
- 3 Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient – TremenDesk, the hosted help desk application, is much more than just a help desk – it is a tool you can use to make your online business more efficient.
- Video Guides and Tutorials for Google Analytics – Did you know that Google provides an entire video series on how to use Google Analytics? We’ll tell you where you can find it!
- Lunarpages Design Database Survey – We are starting a new web design tutorial database, and we need your help! Let us know what you want to see there, where you want to see it and how you want to see it presented.
- How to Deal with Online Content Theft – Ever had your content stolen from your web site? In this article we will share with you the lawful steps you should take to re-claim your digital copyright.
- Best of the Bookmark Resources – Fresh from the Lunarforums, we have a list of the greatest online bookmarking resources from around the Web.
- Hosting Backup and Restore from the LPCP – Backing up your content from the LPCP web hosting control panel has never been easier. Here is a guide to walk you through the steps to getting that task done.
Don’t make us have to hold you after class – be sure to give us your feedback! We always love to hear what you like and what you learned from the Lunarpages Web Hosting Newsletter. Drop an e-mail to affiliate@lunarpages.com or leave your comments directly on www.web-hosting-newsletter.com.