Web Concepts

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.&nbsp This is the first lightweight online word processor I have run across.&nbsp Just because it is lightweight doesn’t mean it is short on features though.&nbsp You can setup a new document, save, get word count, send it to others, download and print your written words.&nbsp

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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By Mitch “WYSIWYG” Keeler

Need help creating a new form for your web site that both is functional and looks pretty too? pForm is one resource I just happened to stumble across that I really like.

All you have to do is pick the design you like and then walk through the steps designing how you exactly want the form to look. You have all kinds of different options from radio boxes to text fields. There is just about every option you could ask for.

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By Mitch “Forum Plugger” Keeler??

We are in the middle of bringing back an old favorite that many seemed to enjoy the Web Site of the Month. The Web site of the month forum is back open and running over at Lunarforums.com and now all we need is your vote. Here are the stipulations and rules:

1. You can submit your entries in for the web site of the month to me, via a PM here on the forums.
2. The web site in question must be hosted here at Lunarpages, either as a primary, subdomain or addon domain.
3. The final week of the month, I will put up a poll where you can vote out of 5 randomly drawn submissions.
4. Whoever has the most votes at the end of that week, will be our winner for that month!

Remember, if you submit one month - and don’t win, you can submit again the next month! Also, once you have won you won’t be able to re-submit yourself so you can win again. We want to have as many winners as we can!

Winners will get a special badge to display on their site, the honor of being our choice for a month and also a mention in our Lunarpages Newsletter.

Read more about it on the Lunarforums thread about it, and be sure to submit your own Lunarpages hosted site to me via the board’s personal message system or drop me an e-mail.

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by Mitch “Ain’t No Picasso“ Keeler

When working on your web site and trying to see what you could do to make it better, there is nothing at all wrong with looking at others styles and techniques to see if it inspires you to create a better look and feel for your own project.

Once of my new favorite resources to do just that is Best Web Design:

It is an “inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash &amp CSS).” Translation? They have a lot of pretty layouts to go drool over.

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by Tiara Rea

These days, I’d say it’s nearly impossible to find people who aren’t interested in gaming. Even here at Lunarpages, nearly everybody is a closet-WOW nerd, Guitar Hero rock star, or a Mario fanatic, and though most people might be put off by our heated debates over PS3 Vs Wii or the constant pressure to join the WOWers at 2am, we like to think it’s pretty cool.

Okay, we realize we’re all nerds, but that’s half the fun.

Personally, I like to take my nerdtacularness (that’s right, I went there) to the next level by going online to read gaming reviews and find out what others think about new and upcoming releases and just to see what’s new in the world of gaming. So I’d like to share an awesome new gaming site with you guys: The Game Reviews is a land of “unbiased thoughts by a community of gamers”. In other words, the biggest and smartest dorks gather to talk games. While it’s a new community, it has incredible potential and I find myself checking it daily.

Their Forums are setup to be an awesome place to connect with fellow gamers, and since the site is fairly new, you can expect it to grow rapidly too! But what I really love about this site is the reviews, interviews, and thoughts on upcoming releases. This is the site that brought Rock Band into my frame of mine…and it’s the same site that made me want the game so bad I’m considering buying PS3 just to get it sooner. They also offer game cheat codes…not that I need them… *cough*… as well as videos, screenshots, lists of top 10s, and a ton more.

TheGameReviews.com is really set up to be an awesome community of fabulous gamers who know their stuff, and it’s always a pleasure checking their site out, so I’d recommend any LP gamers should check it out when you get a chance and bask in gamer Heaven.

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