Archive for Issue 26 - November 2009
Lunarpages November Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsFall is here in full swing, but do not let that get you down. The only thing falling at Lunarpages, is our prices! Both the Business hosting plan and Quicksite have received price cuts for new customers - but that is not all. We have an entire series of tutorials, articles, news topics and more to share with you this November.
Here is what we have lined up for you this month:
What big news is going on in the month of November? From web hosting plan savings, to how you can stay up to date with everything we publish; there is a little something for everybody. Get up to date with the latest web hosting news to come out of the Lunarpages headquarters.
A few issues back, we introduced you to the great web site error checker, DeepTrawl. Well, now we are happy to announce that we are giving to you the full featured DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition, totally free of charge!
How to Setup Anti-Spam Controls in LPCP
We have spoken before about the great features that come included with the new LPCP control panel. This time around, we are going to share with you how to easy it is to set up your anti-spam controls so you can keep the unsolicited e-mails out of your inbox, for good.
Getting More Visitors with Google AdWords
Lunarpages has teamed up with Google AdWords to give all first time advertisers an easy way to get their web sites out there to the public. Depending on the hosting plan you have, you could be eligible for up to $100 worth of free Google AdWords credit. We are here to help you get your Google AdWords advertising account started off on the right foot.
In an effort to help webmasters of every skill level, we have put together one of the most comprehensive guides to getting started with HTML. Created exclusively for Lunarpages customers in mind, we have put together a six part tutorial series that will educate you about the hyper text markup language.
Lunar Picks – What Gadget Are You Thankful For?
It is November, which means that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. To put a geeky spin on this favorite holiday of ours, we decided to ask the Lunarpages crew what their favorite gadgets are, and why are they thankful for them.
Setup Your Own “Share on Facebook” Button
One of the most popular social networks out there, by a big margin, is Facebook. You can now easily jump onto this social bandwagon by adding a “Share on Facebook” button to your own web site layout. This way, people can instantly share your web site with all their friends, family members and followers.
How to Password Protect Your Hosted Folders
Password protection is a good way to keep people out of a folder, or let a select group of people in. To give you more control and functionality, we recently added this feature to our LPCP powered hosting accounts. In this guide, we will walk you through the steps you need to take to password protect your own folders.
3 Fool Proof Ways to Advertise Any Web Site
Driving traffic to your web site is not always an easy thing to do. One of the most popular questions we get asked is, “how can I get more web site visitors?” This month, we have come up with three excellent and cost effective ways to get your web site known to the public at large.
View Your Page in Multiple Browsers Online!
With the help of Adobe’s BrowserLab, you can check to see how your web site looks on several different browsers and operating systems, virtually. This tool provides you a quick and easy way to check out your domain without having to install numerous browsers.
Over 20 Links for Statistical Stats
You can not mention web sites without mentioning statistics. Many of us webmasters love checking our web site traffic every day. This month, in our look at the best links from around the Web, we are focusing on the 20 best links for statistical and analytical statistics.
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 feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to affiliate@lunarpages.com.
Lunar News – November 2009
Posted by: | CommentsTime to grab the turkey and carve up some greater news, links and deals straight from the Lunarpages headquarters, in Anaheim, California. So what is the latest and greatest happenings at your favorite web host this month?
Save $72 on Your Next Business Hosting Plan Purchase
The perfect hosting plan for any e-commerce or business web site just got that much better. For a limited time, we have lowered the Business hosting plan price to just $18.95 per month. That is a savings of $72 if you sign up for a new Business hosting plan today, for 24 months. The Business hosting plan comes with a plethora of features. Some of those include, a free dedicated ip, a free dedicated SSL certificate, access to your very own TremenDesk account, and so much more. If you have been hesitant to grab a new Business hosting plan till the price is right, this is the time to act.
We are lowering our price to help put some more holiday cash in your pocket.
Have You Grabbed your 3 Month Free Trial to Keepit Yet?
Just about all Lunarpages customers have access to Keepit, the ultimate desktop backup solution. As a Lunarpages member, you get a free unlimited trial for three months to see if you enjoy how effortless, simple and automatic the service is. With many people migrating to Windows 7, now might be the best time to try it out. You can simply backup your files to Keepit, install Windows 7 and then put your files back in place. For more information on Keepit, be sure to check out our special offer page, and this tutorial which has much more information about this great offsite backup solution.
Grab a Quicksite for Just $9.95!
For a limited time only, Lunarpages has dropped the price of the Quicksite hosting plan to $9.95 per month, if you sign up for 12 months.
Quicksite allows you to take your website live in under 2 hours, with free setup, a grade A webpage editor and so much more. Also worth mentioning is the fact that you have over 500 unique templates to choose from. This is a terrific bonus to an already fantastic hosting plan. Get your $60 off your next Quicksite hosting plan purchase today!
Introducing the New Dedicated i7 Servers
Lunarpages is not only a leader in the shared and VPS hosting world, they are also a juggernaut when it comes to dedicated hosting servers too. The newest member to the dedicated hosting plan family is the new i7 Dedicated hosting plan.
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Powered by Lunarpages Contest Winner!
Last month, in an effort to give back to our great community, Lunarpages decided to give away a free year of web hosting. With over 200+ people adding the spiffy “Powered by Lunarpages” banners to their own web site – we could only pick one person to get the prize. The web site that is winning the free year of web hosting is saxamo.com. On behalf of the entire Lunarpages crew I want to congratulate them on the win, and thank everybody else for spreading the word. Keep an eye out for even greater Lunarpages contest, surprises and deals coming soon!
That is it for this month’s roundup of news, web hosting deals offer and more.
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DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition
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Lunarpages is very proud to announce a new partnership with an old friend, to bring you an even better way to make sure your web site is in top notch performance. Lunarpages and DeepTrawl are providing the new DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition free to everybody who hosts their web sites here at Lunarpages.
Here are just a few things that Deep Trawl will do:
- searches for dead links, 404 errors, and other common website errors
- finds missing images or invalid images
- highlights invalid xhtml and html coding errors
- seeks out spelling mistakes & undesirable user postings
- shows missing SEO user defined problems
- finds out of date and/or slow loading content
Don’t take our word for it, here is what the DeepTrawl authors had to say about their fantastic program and this new partnership with the Lunarpages community.
We are very pleased to be able to offer DeepTrawl free to you. DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition can scan any website hosted with Lunarpages for many different types of errors such as broken links, bad spelling and invalid xhtml. DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition is only limited to trawling sites hosted by Lunarpages, otherwise it’s identical to our top priced product which we sell for $599. The Lunarpages Edition will even provide you with a discount coupon for 30% off all the products we sell; please feel free to hand this to your friends and colleagues.
By downloading the DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition you can make sure your site is in great shape now and in the future.
Want to see what it looks like in action?
DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition Screenshots:
Once you start things up, you will see the welcoming splash screen first:
This is what the program looks like in action:
Here, are some sample results we found after scanning the Lunartics web site:
How Can I Get DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition?
This is a special offer we wanted to make sure everybody get to enjoy. With that said, all you need to do is login to your Customer Account Page, click on the “Specials” Tab, then click the banner that says, “Click here for your $700 Free Bonus!”. On the next screen, scroll down till you find the DeepTrawl section, and click the download link that matches your operating system of choice. (DeepTrawl Lunarpages Edition supports both Windows and Mac OSX!)
Troubleshooting Tips
There are a few things to remember when using this awesome program:
- Your domain name must have “lunar” in the nameservers it uses.
- It is only for Lunarpages customers.
- If you have issues using www.yourdomain.com, try using just yourdomain.com (dropping the “www”).
- If you redirect to yourdomain.com/home.php or another page on your domain, try using that full path if you have any issues running the scan.
We hope you enjoy this new web maintenance tool. This is just one more example and reason why with Lunarpages, solutions reside here with us.
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How to Setup Anti-Spam Controls in LPCP
Posted by: | CommentsCorrectly configuring your anti-spam settings in your e-mail accounts is essential to do, to prevent yourself from becoming an easy target to anybody who may wish to send you unsolicited e-mails. The LPCP control panel comes with all the tools you need to get your anti-spam configuration up, running and customized for each of your e-mail accounts you have created.
Step one would be to login to your LPCP for your hosting plan, and select the E-Mail Accounts link under E-mail sidebar menu category.
Next, locate the e-mail address you wish to configure, and click on the AntiSpam link that lines up with that account in question. You can configure each account individually.
Now you will see the first screen of three when it comes to configuring your anti-spam settings in LPCP. Here you can setup the basic configurations for SpamAssassin.
- Required Score – Set the number of hits required before a mail is considered spam. “n.nn” can be an integer or a real number. 5.0 is the default setting, and is aggressive; it would be suitable for a single-user setup, but if you’re an ISP installing SpamAssassin, you should probably set the default to be more conservative, like 8.0 or 10.0.
- Rewrite Subject – Text added to the Subject: line of mails that are considered spam. _HITS_ in the tag will be replace with the calculated score for this message. _REQD_ will be replaced with the threshold.
The second configuration screen allows you to whitelist certain e-mail addresses. This is a good place to add e-mail addresses of friends and family members, so you can be sure when they send you something it will never be filtered out or labeled as spam by mistake.
The third configuration screen allows you to blacklist certain e-mail addresses. Add e-mail accounts here from people or places you never want to receive e-mail from. For example, if somebody@somedomain.com is harassing you via e-mail, you could list his e-mail address here – and his messages would no longer go through.
Once you are done, you can repeat these steps for each e-mail account you have created under your hosting plan so you can take care of any spam e-mail problems you might be having.
Bonus: Check out more tutorials, guides and more on the web hosting wiki!
For those of you who use cPanel, and want to do the same – you can follow the advice in this tutorial.
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Getting More Visitors with Google AdWords
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Are you new to web-mastering, or marketing yourself out there, and you need a kick in the right direction? Lunarpages has partnered up with Google AdWords to offer all you first time advertisers a way to get your web site seen, and for you to get more web site visitors.
What are Google AdWords? Google AdWords is advertising that runs alongside or above Google.com search results, allowing you to reach potential customers in real time as they are searching for your products and services!
It is expensive though, right?
Not at all! If you are a Lunarpages client, you get instant access to at least $25 credit. That is more than enough to get your feet wet with the Google AdWords experience. There is no need to be an advertising expert, because Google makes the advertising experience very easy.
Here are some of the features you will see no where else:
- Reach Potential Customers at the Moment they Express Interest in Your Product
- Stay in Constant Control of Your Marketing Budget
- Receive up to $100 in Free Google AdWords Credits!
- Target Advertisements Across the US or in Your Own Neighborhood
- Optimize Your Ads with Real-Time Reporting
- Pay Only When Potential Customers Click Your Ads
- Gain New Channels for Marketing, New Business Acquisition, and Consumer Branding
Ready to get started? Lunarpages clients can find the Google AdWords offer in their customer account page. If you are not a Lunarpages client yet, be sure to check out this page for more information:
Depending on the hosting plan you choose or host with, you could be eligible for up to $100 in free Google AdWords credit.
Get Started Today!
This offer is perfect for anybody who has never gotten a Google AdWords account before. Remember, this special promotion can only be used with NEW Google AdWords accounts.
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Getting Started with HTML
Posted by: | CommentsHere at Lunarpages, we like to share with our customers and clients all the different ways they can use their web hosting accounts. Often lost in all the geeky talk, is the fact that there are lots of people out there who may not be HTML experts. There is nothing wrong with that, and in fact we would love to help. That is what inspired me to create this six part tutorial on learning the basics about the hypertext markup language (HTML for short).
Hyper Text Markup Language, or as you know it HTML, is the markup language for most web pages on the Internet. Now, it is not exactly a language like English or Spanish, which we communicate with orally. A markup language is a system for editing text in a way that changes how the text looks or how you interact with it. Where you use funny looking code to make one section of text look different from the other, the code in question is not seen by the end user. The server the web page is coming from, and the user’s browser come together to help mesh it together as something that is seen as visually appealing to the end user.
Tutorial #2 – Parts of a Web Page, Explained
Before you learn how to create your own web page, you need to learn what all the parts of the web site do, and what they are there for. We covered some of these in the Basics of HTML tutorial, but I am going to mention those again and a few more you need for a basic HTML web page. All web pages are written with a mix of content and code, and you must learn how to mix these elements correctly for your web site to come out looking correctly.
Tutorial #3 – Web Site Navigation
The navigation section of your web site is one of the most important factors to a web site. Why? The navigation is what allows you to move from one section of the web site to the next, linking web pages to web pages, and in all making a web site work. Here I hope to explain why web site navigation is important, along with a few other key factors you should remember when creating your web site.
Tutorial #4 – Body Tag Modifiers
There are several HTML tags that can act as modifiers to how the web page looks visually. First, let us re-visit the body tags. The body tags are there to tell the browser what part of the document is going to be visible to the end user when viewing the web page. This is marked up in your HTML code by putting a <body> where your web page’s content begins and a </body> tags where it ends.
Tutorial #5 – HTML Formatting Tags
When it comes to formatting a web page using HTML code, you can think of it (kind of) in the same way you would look at formatting a document formatted by a word processor. You have your headlines to show you where one section starts and stops. You have your paragraphs to break up blocks of text, and you have line breaks to show where there should be a new line started. Now I am going to show you how to get some of these things done using HTML.
Tutorial #6 – More HTML Formatting Tags
We have already covered some basic HTML tags you will use when writing your web page code. Here are a few more that you might find come in handy, when designing your own web page.
That is it for this tutorial round up – hope it is something you can all enjoy and get a lot of use out of. If there is another series of tutorials you would like to see – let us know in the comments. There is nothing I like more than making sure you all know what to do with your hosting account, after you get it.