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19 Links to Help Stimulate Your Inner Designer
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Finding design inspiration, for any webmaster, can sometimes be tough. We have searched the Web, far and wide, for some of the most inspirational design web sites out there – to help you find your creative muse. From art galleries to tutorials, there is a little something here for both design newbies to advanced design professionals.
Here are our top picks when it comes to finding the best ideas and inspirations for designs of all natures.
DeviantArt.com
Where ART meets application!
Design Solutions on Flickr
A great collection of site parts and ideas, for design inspiration.
BrowserShots.org
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
PatternTap.com
Interface collection for design inspiration!
Getting Started with HTML
Great six part series, to help introduce you to the world of HTML.
Tagul.com
Awesome looking tag cloud designs!
ScrnShots.com
ScrnShots is the best way to take, find, and share screenshots of web and screen based design.
Toondoo.com
ToonDoo is a unique way to get creative and expressive with comic strips.
99designs.com
Designer Marketplace for Logo Designs and More…
Webdosanddonts.com
Snack-sized web design tips and tricks!
IconBuffet.com
Free Icons, Stock Icons, Custom Icon Design.
img4me.com
A free text to image service.
So, what do you do?
Really funny web designer flow chart!
WooThemes.com
Great quality premium WordPress themes!
fontstruct.fontshop.com
Build, share and download tons of custom fonts!
DesignFloat.com
A Digg-like social news web site for designers!
Flash-Template-Design.com
Great professional looking flash and non-flash templates for web sites!
RedBubble.com
RedBubble is an online art gallery and creative community that makes it easy to buy and sell art as high-quality framed prints, greeting cards, posters, designer T-Shirts and more.
TV.Adobe.com
Your online source for expert insight and inspiration.
So there are our picks, now which web sites would you add to the list? Let us know your favorite design web sites in the comments!
Lunarpages April Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you are a customer with Lunarpages, everything on the Web is just a little ‘bit better. Your web sites are social, your visitors are more plentiful, and your designs are top notch. How can this be? Well, we provide every client with this great monthly round up of some of the best tutorials, tips, and web design knowledge all wrapped together by this great web hosting web site.
So what is new this month in the April 2010 edition of the Lunarpages Newsletter?
It is time to stop and smell the web development roses. We have some of the most recent news from around the Lunar-verse to share with you, including the web design giveaway results, from last month.
Have you ever wondered how people change their link colors on a web site? We are here to help with this very basic CSS tutorial covering what you need to know to dress up and style your web site links.
Google AdWords & Your Search Engine Marketing Odyssey
Our search engine marketing friends at LocalDirective have some Google AdWords tips to share with you all, and announce the winner of the free online marking program contest.
Want to temporarily or permanently redirect links on your web site? Thanks to this new LPCP web hosting feature, you can now do so right from your control panel.
Lunar Picks – Favorite Programs and Web Sites
The Lunar Crew is back to share with you some of their own favorite programs and web sites they use on a daily basis. There are a lot of great software suggestions shared, and you can leave your own in the comments too!
We hope you really enjoy Issue 30 of our Lunarpages web hosting newsletter. We always enjoy hearing your reaction, so please feel free to leave a comment or send your opinions to news@lunarpages.com.
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.
Lunarpages Jan/Feb Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsLunarpages, you perfect solution for your web hosting needs, is back to start the new year off right – with the first web hosting newsletter of 2010. Now, you might ask yourself – what took so long to get this out? Well, once you see all of the fantastic new deals, plans and offers – you will definitely see what has been keeping us all so busy.
Time to take a break, and read up about what is going on with Lunarpages.
Lunar News – Jan/Feb 2010 – We are here to start the new year off right with a plethora of news and details to keep you up to date with the most recent current events here at Lunarpages. Check out the newest promotions and specials you an get at Lunarpages.
New Online Marketing Advertising Plans – How can you make a bigger and better impact on the Web? Using the right online marketing techniques, any web site or business on the Internet can become a real success. Let me introduce you to the Lunarpages Online Marketing Services.
Reseller Hosting for Webmasters – The Lunarpages Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan is the perfect reseller package for webmasters and developers. You get full account management and monitoring for a really low price.
Web Hosting Gift Cards are Back! – Some of you might remember seeing our special holiday gift card offer a few months back, just in time for Christmas. Well, we are happy to announce that due to the great popularity of giving Lunarpages as a present, this is now a gift you can give at any time.
Up to $110 of MySpace Ad Credit, Just for YOU! - We do not have to tell you that being a Lunarpages client definitely has its perks. Not only are you partnered with the world’s greatest web hosting company, but you are eligible to very exclusive deals. Lunarpages is teaming up with MySpace’s MyAds service to help you reach a global internet audience.
20 More Ways to Make a Buck – Never turn down a man willing to give you a dollar. Now sure, we could give you a dollar, however we thought rather than giving you the dollar, we would show you how to make one instead.
Free Miva Merchant Setup at Lunarpages – It is easy to setup an e-commerce web site at Lunarpages, and with Miva Merchant you can be sure your online store will be a success. Using Miva Merchant 5.5, you can build a powerful storefront very easily. To sweeten the deal, Lunarpages is also going to setup this script for you, for free.
Add Social Badges to Quicksite Pages – The Quicksite hosting plan provides you with a great web-based WYSIWYG editor to edit, change and modify your web site’s content. You can also quickly add banners to all of your social network pages too, so that your web site visitors can stay connected to you via other locations on the Web.
Replace Business E-mail with TremenDesk – Many people just look at TremenDesk as one of the best stand-alone and fully-featured help desk solutions out there. Don’t get me wrong, it does that job extremely well, but some of our users have been thinking outside the box and using it in unique and interesting ways.
WooRank Bring Better Web Site Analysis – We often get asked by Lunarpages clients, how can I make my web site better? Now that is an open ended question that could be answered a hundred or more different ways. Rather than going through them all one by one, now we just point people at WooRank.com.
7 Most Retweeted Blog Posts of 2009 – We always love seeing people sharing the tutorials and articles we write up on a daily basis over at the Lunarpages Lunartics web hosting blog. Over the past year, we have seen a surge of popularity, and also a surge in retweeted links via Twitter for each of our posts that have been made.
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.
Up to $110 of MySpace Ad Credit, Just for YOU!
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I do not have to tell you that being a Lunarpages client definitely has its perks. Not only are you partnered with the world’s greatest web hosting company, but you are eligible to very exclusive deals. Lunarpages is teaming up with MySpace’s MyAds service to help you reach a global internet audience.
Both new and existing customers now have access to free MyAds credit to get started with their own advertising campaign on MySpace.com.
How does the partnership work? Just follow these simple steps.
- Purchase a package with Lunarpages and receive a special promotion code to redeem at www.myads.com
- Sign up as a new customer of MyAds and include your promotion code at checkout to redeem your FREE click credit amount
- Use our ad builder to create your ads that will run directly on the MySpace network
What are you eligible for? Depending on your hosting account, your free credit level will vary.
- Basic, Quicksite, Windows = $35
- Business = $45
- VPS = $60
- Dedicated = $110
If you are not a current or new customer for any of the hosting plans above, this offer is not eligible to you. Also, please note that the promotional credit must be applied to a new myAds Advertiser account within 30 days of creating such account and is valid only for purchase of advertising through myAds’s online advertising system in the United States only.
If you are already a current MyAds client, you are also not eligible.
How do you redeem the offer?
Current customers can login through the Customer Account Page to redeem their special offer.
Then, click the button that says “Request Your Credits”.
You will then be given a link to click through to sign up for the MyAds service. When on the MyAds web site, click the “Get Started Today!” link to setup your first advertisement.
About halfway through the process, you’ll be sent an e-mail from them to validate your e-mail address. Click the link in the e-mail to do so, then you will be on the web page where you give your billing information.
Be sure to click the link that reads, “I have a promotional code.” and then enter the coupon code you were given when you clicked the, “Request Your Credits” link in the Customer Account Page. After that, finish up with the ordering process – and you should be all set.
Reach More Than 70 Million Active MySpace Users
Are you ready to reach more than 70 million active MySpace users? Be sure to grab your free MySpace MyAds advertising credits today.
Replace Business E-mail with TremenDesk
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Many people just look at TremenDesk as one of the best stand-alone and fully-featured help desk solutions out there. Don’t get me wrong, it does that job extremely well, but some of our users have been thinking outside the box and using it in unique and interesting ways. Need an example?
What about people who use TremenDesk to replace their e-mail system?
Thanks to the easy way that TremenDesk allows you to assign an e-mail address to each ticket queue, you can now filter your small business’s e-mails in a more effective way. Instead of using yourself as the main “go to” guy or gal, you can create a number of different e-mail addresses based around your business such as:
- ads@yourowndomainname.com for advertising request
- contact@yourowndomainname.com for contact requests
- support@yourowndomainname.com for support requests
- feedback@yourowndomainname.com for customer feedback
How Do you Map an E-mail Address to a Queue?
Here are the basics on how to map an e-mail address to a queues:
- Go to the Admin menu.
- Go to the Ticket Queue Management menu.
- Choose an existing queue from the list.
- Go to the E-Mail Addresses section on the page.
- Enter the email address you would like to map to the desk in the text field, and click the Add this E-Mail button.
This is the usefulness of the TremenDesk help desk in action. Now you can easily map an e-mail address to a queue, with absolutely no fuss at all. It is something that takes five seconds to do, and adds so much functionality to an already superb help desk product.
The possibilities with this type of e-mail based filtering goes on and on. Now you have specific types of requests being filtered to different parts of your own TremenDesk help desk. You can then manage each in a much more organized way or assign the duty of replying to them to others in your business with out giving them access to the full e-mail account.
TremenDesk isn’t just a great hosted help desk solution, it makes for a unique way to get your incoming e-mails taken care of too.
Try TremenDesk Today for Free!
The TremenDesk free trial has been made even easier so you can try out the best hosted help desk application out there today, today! All you have to do is click the 30 Day Free Trial button on TremenDesk.com, give a few personal details and you are DONE. No hassles, no credit card information needed, no nothing! Just a simple 30 day trial so you can test out one of the best help desk systems out there today.