Web Concepts

Possibly one of the best forum scripts out there to date, Simple Machines Forum, is more than welcome to be hosted here at Lunarpages, on many of our web hosting plans.   It is a free, professional grade software package that will have you setup with your own online community in just seconds. 

How to Install SMF? – Simple Machine Forum comes with both cPanel’s Fantastico and LPCP’s WebApps collections, respectfully.  You are also more than able to download the installation package from SMF’s official site, and install it yourself. 

• How to Install SMF Manually

Mods, Themes and Upgrades… oh my! – SMF, like many third party scripts we provide to you, comes ready, willing and able to handle a number of different plugins, or as they call them “modifications”.  These mods will add features, remove features and many more possibilities.  SMF is also no stranger to customized themes either.  You can browse through their directory of themes, or design your own.  The forum script is also very well written, and is kept up to date, as soon as a security (or any other) flaw arises. 

More SMF Tutorials and Help

Here are a few more SMF tutorials, tips and more we have collected:

• Simple Machine Forum FAQ
• How do I delete the Simple Machines logo on the default SMF theme?
• How do you add custom tabs to the Core (default) theme menu?
• Convert Current Forum Software to SMF
• What is repair_settings.php?

For more information, and help – be sure to check out the web hosting wiki.

Want to play with it, before you install it, yourself? Play with the demo that is hosted over at OpenSourceCMS.

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!  

Related Tips and Tricks:

• WordPress Hosting at Lunarpages
• Vanilla Web Forum Hosting at Lunarpages
• Get bbPress Hosting at Lunarpages

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Original post by Mitch

Want to get a free flash design template with your next web hosting plan?  The team over at Flash Template Designs and Lunarpages have teamed up to deliver you an out of this world deal.

If you use the coupon code FTD30 when you purchase a 12 or 24 month NEW hosting plan with Lunarpages and get a $30 discount on your web hosting.  What type of template will you get?  You can browse around the Flash Template Design web site to get an idea of the type of free flash layouts you will have to choose from.  How do you get started?

• Simply click here to purchase your web hosting, use the coupon code FTD30 when you purchase a 12 or 24 month Lunarpages Hosting plan.
• After your account is active with Lunarpages for 30 days, email them (select the “info” category) and quote the domain name on the new account we are hosting for you.
• They will email you your download link for the template of your choice (Up to $60 value) for FREE!

This is by far one of the best web hosting deals you can get your hands on. 

Please Note: This promotion is only for NEW 12+ month Lunarpages web hosting plans and excludes Email, Domain and Starter Plans.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Stopping Spam – Favorite Web Development Freebies (Part 3 of 5)
• Five FAQs to Help You Make Some Money!
• Free, Customizable Flash Image Viewer

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Original post by Mitch

This month’s web hosting newsletter is up and running for all the great customers of Lunarpages.  From LPCP tutorials, to money saving and money making tips – we have made sure all our awesome clients are well taken care of. 

See what your missing out on and check out the latest news.

• Read Issue 23 of the Lunarpages Hosting Newsletter!

Related Tips and Tricks:

• All the Lunar News That is Fit to Print
• April&rsquos Hosting Newsletter!
• Web Hosting Newsletter Gets New RSS Feed!

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Original post by Mitch

In need of a bare-boned CSS theme for your web site, but don’t know where to go?  One resource I just recently found and now love is YUI Grids CSS.  What is it?  This service from Yahoo! offers you a number of different empty css-powered layouts to use.

Just browsing through the site, and the CSS Grids examples gives you a plethora of layouts to play with.  By far, the best tool that provide though is the The YUI Grids Builder, a simple interface for Grids customization.

From there, you can create your own design, and all kinds of cool things.  Novices might be scared off by some of this, but do some reading around the web site, and you will get a pretty good idea what it is all about.  Now if the idea of having a CSS framework excites you, you might also check out Blueprint.

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Original post by Mitch

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