Web Concepts

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 hear often, and below is your solution using either cPanel or LPCP (Lunarpages Control Panel).

cPanel

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.

LPCP

To create a .htaccess file in LPCP, log into the LPCP, and then go to your File Manager. Click on the text link labeled, ” public_html” to navigate yourself inside the public_html folder.

In the empty text box to your upper-right type in .htaccess, make sure the drop down box is set to “File” and then hit the button labeled, “Create”.

Your .htaccess file will be created in your public_html folder on your LPCP powered account.

• Find out how to manually create and upload the .htaccess file to your web hosting account!

For more LPCP help, tips, tutorials and more, be sure to check out the web hosting wiki. Hundreds of guides have been published there to help you get more out of your web hosting account at Lunarpages.

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Original post by Amy

Have you set up your own e-commerce store or shop, but have not yet found the perfect payment processor to make your web site a success?  Look no further than the new payment processing services from Lunarpages.  We have teamed up with First Data to bring a fast, secure and effortless way to pay.

By adding the payment processing to your Lunarpages hosting plan, you can:

• Accept more forms of payment — Visa®, MasterCard®, Diners Club®, American Express®, Discover® Network and JCB®, plus gift cards and more
• Improve cash flow — Receive funds quickly from the bank of your choice
• Receive personalized support — Superior technical support 24/7/365
• Easily manage your transaction data — FREE online reporting and account information anywhere, anytime

We know many people out there on are a budget, so we have one of the lowest application fees out there as well as a low monthly service charges and discounts on state-of-the-art equipment. You’ll have a reduced risk of bad things going on thanks to the full PCI compliance and advanced fraud protection.

Want to grow your revenue?  With a professional payment processing method in place, you can accept payments from new locations and new methods, to make your e-commerce site a real success.

To learn more about the payment processing solutions from Lunarpages, be sure to check out Lunarpages.com.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

In honor of the promotion we have going currently where ALL USA and Canadian Lunarpages clients get $100 in AdWords credits, we wanted to focus on some helpful tips to help you match your advertisements on your web to your content.  Thankfully, the Google AdSense team has come up with an easy solution called section targeting.  So what is it, and how can you put it in effect on your own web site?

The idea behind section targeting is to allow you to select a block of text and HTML content that you would like the Google AdSense ad bots to pay more attention to when it comes to deciding what type of ads go on your web site.

To get it set up, all you need to do is add a couple of HTML tags to your web site layout, on each page you have ads on.

&lt!– google_ad_section_start –&gt

Your important content goes here.

&lt!– google_ad_section_end –&gt

To learn more about section targeting, be sure to check out this Google AdSense tutorial on the issue.  I can tell you from experience, that it does make for more targeted Google AdSense advertising.

If you haven’t claimed your credits yet and you don’t have an existing AdWords account, email us!  Remember you MUST be a Lunarpages Hosting Customer so provide your domain name and make sure you qualify!

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Original post by Amy Armitage

In honor of the promotion we have going currently where ALL USA and Canadian Lunarpages clients get $100 in AdWords credits, we wanted to focus on some helpful tips to help you match your advertisements on your web to your content.  Thankfully, the Google AdSense team has come up with an easy solution called section targeting.  So what is it, and how can you put it in effect on your own web site?

The idea behind section targeting is to allow you to select a block of text and HTML content that you would like the Google AdSense ad bots to pay more attention to when it comes to deciding what type of ads go on your web site.

To get it set up, all you need to do is add a couple of HTML tags to your web site layout, on each page you have ads on.

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

Your important content goes here.

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

To learn more about section targeting, be sure to check out this Google AdSense tutorial on the issue.  I can tell you from experience, that it does make for more targeted Google AdSense advertising.

If you haven’t claimed your credits yet and you don’t have an existing AdWords account, email us!  Remember you MUST be a Lunarpages Hosting Customer so provide your domain name and make sure you qualify!

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Original post by Amy Armitage

Looking or a minimalist them that has just a touch of color?  Look no further than the Under the Influence theme for WordPress.  This great free theme for WordPress keeps things nice and simple with the ability to modify the colors to something more custom and change the layout from 2 to 3 columns too.

Another feature of this theme, that we like a lot, is the bottom row of navigation columns where you can put in details like calendars, archives and more.

If you want to grab this theme for your own usage, be sure to go check it out over at WordPress.org.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

Looking for a one of a kind web site HTML editor?  Look no further than Code Lobster.  Code Lobster, PHP edition is perfect when it comes with working on a number of different web site scripts written in PHP.

Some of the features included are:

• PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code highlighting
• PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS code collapsing
• HTML autocomplete
  Autocomplete of tags, attributes for current tag, closing tags.
• HTML code inspector
  Inspector makes it simple to find HTML elements buried deep in the page.
• HTML toolbar
• CSS autocomplete
  Autocomplete of style property names and values.
• JavaScript Advanced autocomplete
  Autocomplete of keywords, DOM elements and their properties.
• PHP Advanced autocomplete
  This feature speeds up writing a code. Autocomplete includes wide selection of code completion listings.
  Lists are formed of both standard PHP and user’s classes, variables, functions, constants and keywords. Starting typing new element, lists of all possible variants for its completion are being displaying after -&gt; and ClassName::
• PHP Debugger

Here is a little more about the HTML editor from the developer:

CodeLobster PHP Edition is a free editor primarily intended for editing PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript files with support Drupal CMS, Joomla CMS, Smarty template engine, JQuery library, CodeIgniter framework and WordPress blogging platform.

You can download Code Lobster for free at codelobster.com.  Make sure you let us know what you think about it, in the comments.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

Watching over your own grammar usage can be an easy thing from some, but might be a hard thing for others.  Thankfully though I have found two excellent resources for you to check your own web page’s content, e-mail reply or blog post before you make it public to the world.

After the Deadline, created by Automattic, is a great web site and series of plugins (for both Firefox and WordPress) to make sure your grammar is top notch.  For quick grammar checking, I would suggest polishmywriting.com, the place they have put up to demonstrate how After the Deadline can save you from your writing misfortunes.

The simply named Spellchecker from Spellchecker.net is a great resource to depend upon too.  It works in the same way After the Deadline does (just copy your text and paste it into the box) to have your own personal English teacher grade your writing skills.  You can quickly edit with their suggestions and advice, then copy back the text into your document.

I hope these two tools come in handy when you are checking your own grammar and spelling usage on the Web.

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Original post by Mitch

Watching over your own grammar usage can be an easy thing from some, but might be a hard thing for others.  Thankfully though I have found two excellent resources for you to check your own web page’s content, e-mail reply or blog post before you make it public to the world.

After the Deadline, created by Automattic, is a great web site and series of plugins (for both Firefox and WordPress) to make sure your grammar is top notch.  For quick grammar checking, I would suggest polishmywriting.com, the place they have put up to demonstrate how After the Deadline can save you from your writing misfortunes.

The simply named Spellchecker from Spellchecker.net is a great resource to depend upon too.  It works in the same way After the Deadline does (just copy your text and paste it into the box) to have your own personal English teacher grade your writing skills.  You can quickly edit with their suggestions and advice, then copy back the text into your document.

I hope these two tools come in handy when you are checking your own grammar and spelling usage on the Web.

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Original post by Mitch

Watching over your own grammar usage can be an easy thing from some, but might be a hard thing for others.  Thankfully though I have found two excellent resources for you to check your own web page’s content, e-mail reply or blog post before you make it public to the world.

After the Deadline, created by Automattic, is a great web site and series of plugins (for both Firefox and WordPress) to make sure your grammar is top notch.  For quick grammar checking, I would suggest polishmywriting.com, the place they have put up to demonstrate how After the Deadline can save you from your writing misfortunes.

The simply named Spellchecker from Spellchecker.net is a great resource to depend upon too.  It works in the same way After the Deadline does (just copy your text and paste it into the box) to have your own personal English teacher grade your writing skills.  You can quickly edit with their suggestions and advice, then copy back the text into your document.

I hope these two tools come in handy when you are checking your own grammar and spelling usage on the Web.

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Original post by Mitch

Looking for a cheat sheet to help you with your HTML woes?  Look no further than VisiBone, which provides one of the longest ones we have ever seen.

We highly suggest that all webmasters bookmark this resource, because it is very handy to have at your fingertips.

Ever forget how to leave in a comment?  They have it noted.

Ever wonder how to set the font size? They have that too.

Ever wanted to know how you can earn $65 for every new client you send our way?  Well, they don’t cover that – that would be our affiliate program.  </shameless plug>

Save this bookmark to use whenever HTML coding has got you down, http://html-tags.info/. We promise, you will thank us later!

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Original post by Amy Armitage