Web Concepts

Could Lunarpages in fact be the greatest phpBB web host out there?  I would say so.  For those of you who do not know, phpBB is one of the most widely used open source forum solutions to date.  It’s user friendly installation process and easy to use administration panel has made it one of the most popular forum scripts out there too. 

At Lunarpages, you have the option to install phpBB manually, via cPanel’s Fantastico script collection or if you have the LPCP control panel, through the WebApps Pool.  Every method listed, is very simple to do.  You can customize phpBB to fit any situation.  With the modifications and styles they provide, you will be able to setup a set of forums that are powerful enough for your needs and look just the way you want them to look.

• Learn More About the phpBB Features

The only big flaw I can find with a script like phpBB is it is very exploit prone.  Due to the fact that it is very popular, it gets hit with security issues more than your average forum script.

Need Help? To help you get started, here are a few tutorials to help:

• How to Install phpBB onto Your Own Hosting Account
• CHMOD Permissions for phpBB
• How to Create a Private Forum

You can find more help and tutorials about phpBB at the web hosting wiki too.  The folks at OpenSourceCMS also provide a demo of phpBB you can try out before you install it on your own web hosting account. 

November is Lunarpages Script Month!

Keep watching the Lunartics blog all throughout the month on November for even more third-party script suggestions, tutorials, tips and more.  You can also get tons of information and details about just a handful of the third-party scripts we support on the web hosting wiki.  We also have a special forum dedicated to third-party script discussions over at the Lunarforums.  Subscribe today to the Lunartics RSS feed for instant updates when we release a new script suggestion!

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Original post by Mitch

I have had many people ask me what resources do I learn from, when it comes to being a modern day webmaster.  Now, there are many resources out there – but here are 60 of the best links (taken from my own bookmarks to your browser) to assist you in mastering the art of CSS in web design.

1. Perfect 3 Column CSS Liquid Layout. No Images, Cross-browser
2. CSS Zen Garden
3. 5 Tips For Instantly Writing Better CSS
4. Andy Budd CSS/Web Standards Links
5. Mastering CSS: Styling Design Elements
6. Nice CSS How-To and Template site
7. CSSDog
8. Free CSS Templates
9. W3CSchools CSS Tutorial
10. CSS-based Navigation Menus
11. CSSeasy.com
12. Divine CSS – CSS Showcase Gallery
13. SlickMap CSS
14. 15 Great CSS Galleries
15. Ultimate list of CSS hacks
16. Styling <hr&gt; with CSS
17. 101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts
18. 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
19. CSS Portal
20. Clean CSS – Optimize & Format Your CSS
21. CSS Basics
22. CSS on Delicious
23. Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources
24. Sitepoint CSS Tutorials
25. 20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love
26. CSS-Tricks
27. Listamatic – Styled Lists
28. 20 Useful CSS Tips for Beginners
29. Mastering CSS: Advanced Techniques and Tools
30. UniqueCSS.com
31. 5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Great Tutorials & Tools
32. CSS Design
33. Web Design from Scratch: CSS
34. HTML Dog – HTML and CSS Tutorials
35. Open Design Community
36. Position is Everything
37. SitePoint CSS Reference
38. CSS Help Pile
39. CSS Positioning
40. 10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them
41. Aeon Interactive
42. CSS from the Ground Up
43. CSS tutorial of the Float element
44. 30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques
45. CSS Layout Techniques
46. 456 Berea Street – CSS category
47. Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
48. A List Apart CSS Topics
49. Ruthsarian Layouts
50. ͩC – Cascading Style Sheets
51. Learn CSS
52. CSS Articles & Resources
53. PSD to HTML/CSS &amp; Implementation
54. The CSS Gallery List
55. Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
56. Holy CSS Zeldman!
57. 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
58. Eric Meyer: CSS
59. 50 Beautiful and User-Friendly Navigation Menus
60. CSS Navigation Magnification
61. 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
62. CSS Tricks
63. minimalsites.com
64. HTML Dog CSS Tutorials
65. CSS Perk

Know of another great CSS tutorial or resource that you would like to share?  Don’t be shy!  Leave a comment, and add it on the list as pick number 66, pick number 67, pick number 68, and so on. 

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Original post by Mitch

Dear Citizens of Lunarville,

Yeah, I said it – Lunarpages sucks when it comes to meeting my expectations. How dare they go above and beyond the call of duty time and time again when I expect far less from them.  Oh, you want an example?

What about the time they offered to renew my account, saving me $50 in the process, and making me keep more of my own money in my wallet.  My wallet is very small, and is not used to having that much extra cash.

You know what else they did to me?  They told me I could give them two e-mail addresses to contact me at if anything ever happened to my web site.  Oh, so I guess now they really want to make sure if something bad happens they want to be able to reach me?  The jokes on them, my web site hasn’t even been down once since I signed up.

The one that puts the proverbial cherry on top of that darn web hosting ice cream sundae is the fact that they keep giving me web hosting tutorials to learn from.  Week after week I keep finding thing on their web hosting wiki to learn from.  What do they think, I don’t enjoy spending hours trying to figure out my problems?  Not only are they stuffing my pockets with more money, they are saving me more time in my day.  I guess now I have plenty of time to figure out how to get that extra money into my wallet.

This isn’t the last you have heard from me either – I will be back with even more ridiculous ways Lunarpages keeps sticking it to me with their “friendly” and “quality” service.

Yours Truly,

The Perplexed Patron

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Original post by PerplexedPatron

Cloud computing has become very trendy term, many interpretations which often conflict with each other appeared, and I’ve seen many people to get confused with the terminology. When it comes to putting “Cloud computing” into practice including the implementation of this style of computing into web hosting industry, then it comes really cloudy. I can […]

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By Mitch “It is Monday Already?” Keeler

Here is a neat Online tool that will allow you to spell out any word, using famous Web 2.0 service logos.  I am not exactly sure if this is all that helpful – but at least you can say is it fills a void. 

For being such a simple service – it does include an API as well.  Just use this link here:

http://web2.0write.com/api.php?t=something

Then replace “something” with the text you wish to have written out.

Here is an example:

To try it out for yourself, go visit: http://web2.0write.com

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