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7 Most Retweeted Blog Posts of 2009
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I 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.
Rather than just give you the most popular blog posts of 2009, I thought I would turn toward our great Twitter followers and give you seven of the most retweeted Lunartics blog posts in 2009.
40 CSS Layouts to Help with the Basics
When searching through some of my personal favorite CSS and design resources, I stumbled upon an old favorite of mine – Layout Gala. It might be a ‘bit old, but the advice and layouts here are as good now as they were then.
Make Your Pages More Tweet-ccessible
Want to make your web page a little more accessible to Twitter users? You might look to add the re-tweeter from TweetMeme to your own web site layout. You (or your fans) can promote your web site using the TweetMeme button. It is a simple and easy way to integrate Twitter onto your blog and web site.
Introduction to Mind Maps for Webmasters
When it comes to planning out a brand new web site, organizing your thoughts can be rather difficult. You might know you want to design a web site about a specific topic, but can’t decide what else you might need in that web site to help it become successful. Mind maps are one great way to get your jumbled thoughts about your site organized.
WordPress Hosting at Lunarpages
All this month, on the Lunartics blog, we will highlight some of our favorite third-party scripts. From image galleries to message boards, there will be a little something for everybody. To get things started, I thought I would discuss with you why WordPress is my absolute favorite blogging script.
I have been spending a lot of my time on Facebook here recently. I am far from being a Facebook expert, however I do have a few tips for you if you have not tried it yet, or you were scared away. Here are some of my own Facebook tips for those of you who might be new to the social networking scene.
10 Awesome Blog Clients to Help You Write
Great tools do not make you a great writer, however it can make you a more productive one. Here are ten of my favorite blog clients – in no specific order. By using a desktop client to update your blog (rather than the web site interface) you can often gain features like being able to draft a post locally, or get your hands on even more tools to edit your articles. These selections have those abilities and many more included.
Grab a Number of Cool Google Gadgets
The gadget team over at Google have made it really easy to grab any number of tools they have featured there and display them on your web site. At the time of writing this, they have over 175,000 little boxes of information to share with your own visitors.
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Lunarpages is much more than just a web host, we are one big helpful community of users and staff alike, all willing to help each other out.
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.
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How to Password Protect Your Hosted Folders
Posted by: | CommentsWhat happens when you want to setup a folder that has secret information in it, and you want to make sure only a select group of people have access to what is in that directory? You can simply set up password protection for that folder, so anybody you give a user name and password to can access that folder in question.
First, you will want to click on the Password Protect Directories menu link, under Your Site in the LPCP control panel.
Next, you should see all the folders you have created within your public_html folder. Navigate through the folders by clicking on the folder icon, and once you find the one you want to protect, click on the lock icon next to the folder icon.
This takes you to the password protection options for that specific folder that you selected to password protect. Now, you have several text boxes options and other things you must setup to password protect the folder in question.
How to Setup the Password Protection
Here is what you need to know when setting up your password protected folder:
- Activate Password Protection: By checking this check mark box, you are activating password protection for this specific folder.
- Resource Name: Whatever message to type here will display as the title for the password login box, when somebody tries to login to that directory.
Once you are done, click on the button labeled, “Save”.
In this section, you can add or remove users. Each login you create here will give that specific user name and password combination access to the folder you are protecting. You will need to fill out the following:
- User Name: the user name they will user to sign on
- Password: the password they will use to get access
- Confirm Password: the same password, typed again
Once you are done, click the button labeled, “Add authorized user”. Now that user will have access to your password protected folder.
Please Note: Before testing make sure to upload or create an index file in the folder. If you do not have an index file, you will receive a forbidden error when logging into the folder.
Now you see how easy it is to setup password protection using LPCP in your own hosting account. For those of you who use cPanel, and want to do the same – you can follow the advice in this tutorial. For many more tips, walkthroughs and guides be sure to check out our fantastic web hosting wiki.
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Lunarpages October Newsletter
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s close to midnight and something evil is lurking in the dark. No need to worry about the ghosts and goblins tonight, because Lunarpages has got your back with the October edition of our monthly newsletter. Not only do we have the best web hosting guides out there today, but we promise to keep the Wolfman at bay, the Mummy wrapped up, and take a bite out of Dracula himself.
Here are our frightfully delightful tutorials and tips for you this month:
LunarNews: October 2009 – Find out what ghostly news we have to offer you for the spooky month of October. From our social network standings to our outstanding new forum theme, stay up to date with the latest Lunarpages web hosting news for this month.
Free Flash Templates for Your Website! – Lunarpages has teamed up again with the fantastic Flash Template Design team to deliver you a free flash template design you can use with your next NEW web hosting order and $30 discount. In all that is over $90 in saving we are passing back to you when you place your next web hosting order with us for a new hosting plan.
Get Started with Quantcast Tracking – Want to find out more about the people who are visiting your web site? Basic traffic statistics are fine, however do you know what your ratio is in visitors between guys and girls? What age is your average visitor? These stats and more can be really helpful in web site marketing, and we will guide you through the steps to get you setup.
Support Lunarpages from Twitter! - We all love Lunarpages, and some of you even love Twitter too. That’s ok, we won’t be jealous, because now you too can show your support for Lunarpages hosting via your own Twitter badge.
ID vs Class in CSS Web Design – In web design circles, there is a lot of confusion on what the ID and Class tags are used for, and when you should use one instead of the other. This month we’ll take a look at both style sheet techniques and show which one is best for which occasion.
Lunarpages Gives Back to Customers - There is no doubt that Lunarpages loves to pass the saving back to you. This is why, this month, we have decided to showcase four fantastic offers that are only available for Lunarpages web hosting clients.
Mind Maps for Webmasters – Stuck on a new web site idea, or are you looking to develop your current web site even more? Mind mapping is a great technique to use to creatively plan out your web site, your new project or anything else in between. We’ll share with you our thoughts on it, and a cool tool to help you get it done.
20 Ear Entertaining Bookmarks – Time to take a break and listen to some tunes! This month’s link list is based around all the various music web sites on the world wide web. No matter if you are looking for a musical break, or perhaps some interesting inspiration, we have you covered with plenty of useful web sites.
Importance of Permalinks in WordPress – Why are permalinks so important to your WordPress install and your web site you are running? We’ll let you know the answer to this, and also the best techniques in this WordPress tutorial you’ll want to save.
Lunar Picks – What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? – Time again to listen in on what the Lunarpages crew has to say. This month’s topic is scary movies. So which cult classics made the list, and which were missed out on? Learn about our favorite horror movies, and don’t be shy; share your own in the comments!
We really hope you enjoy this month’s selection of news, tips tutorials and more web have picked out for you. Remember, you can always leave your feedback in the comments for any of these guides and also contact us at affiliate@lunarpages.com. We’d love to hear what you think!
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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.