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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I’ve asked this question in world’s biggest web hosting forums - Web Hosting Talk. And I’m very curious what do forum members think about it. I have asked myself this question a few times and I’m very close to answer “No”.
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
By Mitch “Monochrome” Keeler
Move over Google Docs and Zoho Writer, there is a new word processing application online. Feast your eyes on Writer, the Internet typewriter.  
No logging in, complicated menus or any of that jazz. This is the first lightweight online word processor I have run across. Just because it is lightweight doesn’t mean it is short on features though. You can setup a new document, save, get word count, send it to others, download and print your written words.
So is this just one out of many more to come like it?  I’ve always been a big fan of your lightweight writing programs and this online counterpart looks very compelling as well. 
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
By Mitch “THE April Fool” Keeler
I have to say there have been a lot of “creative” stories Online today. Here are some of the best (or maybe the worst depending on how many you have seen) April Fools 2008 stories so far.
I love April Fools Day! Seen any other good ones?
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Of course system administrators. They know how to fix any of the server issues and to minimize downtime. But all they want from their bosses is to get very high per hour rate and then to be left alone. This is only a prelude to The Sysadmins price list. Check it out.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
By Mitch “B-Ball” Keeler
The latest and greatest release of the hosting industry’s greatest newsletter is out and ready for reading. Lunarpages Newsletter, Issue 8 is ready for the masses.
In this month’s edition web have just for you packed in some of the best of the best:
Won’t cost you a cent to read, and you can keep coming back for more. Please feel free to leave us any and all feedback on it, and also we want to hear your suggestions for Issue 9 coming to an inbox near you, this April!
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
By Mitch "Loves CSS" Keeler
I am always in search for tools out there that will make the webmaster’s job an easier one. One of the most recent ones I have run across is called TabCreatr. The web site is still in "alpha" release, but already has a lot to love. All you need to do is visit the page, and click on the link to Start TabCreatr.
From there you choose from a selection of drop down boxes and options how you want your tabs to look.
After you are done, just grab the code and you are ready to go. Know of an easier way to create a tabbed navigation from scratch? TabCreatr almost makes the whole CSS design process too easy!
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
By Mitch “Q & A” Keeler
As some of you may know, Joomla is yet another one of the great free content management systems out there from the Web that you can install and use to make your web site even better. It adds management options you never thought you wanted or you never knew you needed. Over the weekend though I got a Lunartics reader asking me where could they find some templates and themes for this CMS king?
Here are a few of my suggestions for theme databases for Joomla powered web sites:
Joomla-Themes.co.uk
JoomlaShack.com
OSSkins.com
ThemesBase.com
Joomla-Themes.biz
Have any more good ones? Feel free to send them my way or drop them in as a comment. Would love to get a few more opinions on where the best places are to get Joomla themes are.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
By Mitch "Finding Freebies" Keeler
I am always happy to help when we get a question in here to the Lunartics blog to answer. This time around we were asked if we knew of any free background resources? Here are a few of the best ones I have found.
Backgrounds can often add flair and class to a usually boring and mundane web site. Know of another great place to find your tiled or large web site backgrounds?
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
By Mitch “cPanel is Your Friend” Keeler
Your .htaccess file, with any Apache based server or hosting account is a very powerful tool that if you can learn to use for your advantage can help you complete many time consuming or difficult tasks with ease. How do you create one though for your web hosting account? This is a question that we get here time to time, and here is your solution.
Login to your cPanel with your user name and password, then once you have made it in, head over to your File Manager. Now the File Manager’s interface is a very familiar Windows-styled look at your files on your hosting account. You will want to click on your folder icon next to your public_html link next, that will take you to the insides of the public_html folder.
Inside you will see all your web site files. You need to scan down the page till you see the bold text, Create a New File. Click that and you should get in the upper-right corner a box with a few more setting to fill in. In the empty text box, put in .htaccess. Keep the drop down box on Text Document and then hit the Create button.
Now you have your .htaccess file inside of your public_html folder all with the help of cPanel and your helpful File Manger.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
By Mitch “The Transfererer” Keeler
One of the web hosting basics that all must eventually learn about and master is the art of FTP. FTP stands for file transfer protocol and acts as a way for you to move files and folders from your PC to your hosting account Online. With any of the Lunarpages web hosting accounts - this option is available to you.
Some of my top choices for FTP clients would be:
- FileZilla - One of if not the most popular open source FTP client out there today. Highly suggested solution for your file transferring needs.
- CoreFTP - Another awesome free and paid FTP program that features site file transfers, auto try failed transfers, one click transfers, keep alive functionality and more.
- SmartFTP - The best looking of the free FTP programs out there that you could use. SmartFTP is also a name you can trust, as they have been providing a good service for years.
When filling out your account information, this is what you should put in each box:
Hostname: For this, you would need to put in yourdomain.com (where yourdomain.com is your actual domain name) or servername.lunarpages.com (also where it says lunarpages.com this information might also change. See your welcome e-mail for more information).
User Name: This would be your account user name that you put in. This is the same one you use to login to your control panel.
Password: The password you can use, is the same one you use to login to your control panel.
That should be it. Try it out and see if it connects. If not, you might double check to make sure that you got all of your connection information correct. Yet again, this would be a good time to check back with your welcome e-mail to make sure that your information matches there with what you put in.
Also as a bonus we have a number of video tutorials to help you get your FTP account up and running.
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