The award winning content management system, which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications is more than welcome at Lunarpages.  Joomla is all that, and so much more.  For people looking for an easy to use and powerful script to manage their digital empire, Joomla is a good way to go.

At Lunarpages, you have three ways you can get this script installed.  It comes standard with cPanel’s Fantastico, LPCP’s WebApps collection or you could manually install the script too. 

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Here to help you save some cash (because the holidays are coming up quick!) Lunarpages has done it again with another fantastic offer. For a limited time only, you can grab your own Quicksite hosting plan for only $9.95 per month, if you sign up for the 12 month billing term.  Just think about it, you could get that web site you’ve always wanted in under two hours with the Quicksite hosting plan.

A Unique Web Hosting Experience – Not only do we provide you with the web hosting, we also provide you with the tools.  The Quicksite hosting plan comes with a top of the line, online web page editor.  This tool can only be found at Lunarpages, and will allow you to create, edit or add to your web site anywhere, and at anytime.

We have discussed before, how the three step publishing process works, but just in case you need more information check out our guide about it here.

Here are a few more interesting links:

• Try the Quicksite Demo!
• Learn More About the Quickstie Plan
• Sign up for the Quicksite Hosting Plan!

So if you have been hesitant to check out the Quicksite hosting plan before, you’ll have no worries now.  You get to save $60! You could practically get another hosting plan with those savings.  It’s a limited time offer, so act fast!

Lunarpages fully supports the lightweight and simple Vanilla forum script.  What is Vanilla?  It is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the Web. 

While it is not supported via the cPanel’s Fantastico or LPCP’s WebApps manager, the script is simple enough for anybody to download, setup and install in minutes.  For more help on the install process, check out this quick guide I wrote up for the Lunarpages web hosting wiki.

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For a limited time only, we are dropping the price for our e-commerce enabled juggernaut of a web hosting plan, the Business hosting plan, to $18.95 per month, if you sign up for a new 24 month plan.  How much money will that save you?  It cuts the price, and save you $72 – automatically. 

The Business web hosting plan is the perfect hosting plan for any business or e-commerce web site out there today.  Not only does it come with unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth, it also provides to you features you will get with no other web host out there today.

What are these special Lunarpages features?

• You can register 3 domain names for free
• You get a Free Dedicated SSL Certificate
• You have access to a free Dedicated IP Address
• Instant Access to a Personalized TremenDesk Help Desk

These are Lunarpages originals, as far as special offers go – and no other web host out there today, can provide you the same.

To lean more about the Business web hosting plan, be sure to check out the official Lunarpages web site page about the plan, and if you have any questions – our sales specialist are available around the clock to answer your concerns.  Just e-mail them at sales@lunarpages.com. 

Your business and e-commerce hosting solutions reside here, with Lunarpages.

Yesterday, we took a look at WordPress, so today I figured we would check out it’s message board (and less popular) brother from another mother, bbPress.  Forum software can often be slow, bloated and filled with holes – however bbPress is the total opposite.  It is focused around being easy to use, speedy, and compliant with all the web standards.

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All this month, on the Lunartics blog, we are going to be highlighting some of our favorite third party scripts.  From image galleries to message boards, there will be a little something for everybody.  To get things started, I thought I would discuss with you why WordPress is my absolute favorite blogging script.

WordPress truly is a state-of-the-art publishing platform that is easy enough for anybody to use.  It focuses on aesthetics, web standards and real usability.  Also, since it is totally free to use, that makes it even better.

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Everybody likes to get paid cold hard cash for giving their opinion on who the greatest web host out there really is, right?  The Lunarpages affiliate plan will pay you big bucks, just for referring new clients over to Lunarpages.

Need some help to get you started?  Here are six great tutorials that cover just about every aspect of the Lunarpages Affiliate program.

What is the Affiliate Program?

Working as a referral service, the Lunarpages affiliate plan will award you with cash, just for spreading the word about Lunarpages web hosting to your friends, family, clients and coworkers…

Direct Affiliate Traffic to Specific URLs

Through our money making affiliate plan, anyone can send new clients to Lunarpages, and get paid for their efforts. However, many affiliate plan members want to be able to point their unique affiliate links to specific pages inside of Lunarpages.com…

How to Create an Affiliate Advertising Campaign

An affiliate advertising campaign can be a great way to track how successful an affiliate link, a banner page, or a specific page is performing for your affiliate plan. The Lunarpages affiliate plan fully supports campaign tracking…

Payments for Lunarpages Affiliates

Once you have reached the minimum commission limit (or have gone over it) each Lunarpages affiliate plan member will be issued a check send to the address we have on record for your affiliate plan…

Qualified Affiliate Plan Commissions

Each time a new customer signs up through your Lunarpages affiliate plan link, you are awarded a commission for the sale through our web hosting affiliate program. However, some might have questions about the commission process, so I wanted to explain it fully to you here…

Tax Forms for Affiliate Plan Users

Once you sign up for the Lunarpages affiliate plan, you will need to send us the needed tax documentation before we can send payment to you…

Need some extra holiday cash?  Referring your friends, family members or business partners is an excellent way to get the job done.  For more help with the Lunarpages affiliate program, and how to get started, check out the Lunarpages Affiliate Program web site.

Keeping your plugins up to date is one of the most important things you can do after you have installed WordPress.  For security reasons, and reasons of functionality you always want to make sure you are running the latest and greatest version of each – and here is how you can get it done quickly, through the WordPress administrator interface. 

First thing, go to the Plugins page from within the WordPress admin interface.

Next, find the plugins that need to be updated.  As you can see from the picture above, we only have one.  On the Manage Plugins page, scroll down till you find the one that is highlighted, like this:

Click the, “upgrade automatically” link to upgrade the plugin from within WordPress.  Your WordPress install then should upgrade the plugin in question, once complete – it’ll ask you to return to the plugin page.  You are done.  Now your plugin is updated.

How many plugins should you install?  In most cases, I would suggest you keep your plugin number under ten.  Also, you should check for updates early and often, because when plugins are updated they are often giving you new features, or updating security issues.

For more WordPress help, be sure to check out the web hosting wiki!

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.

The Lunarpages community extends much further than this one blog.  Sure, the Lunartics blog highlights an important part of the network, however it is only one cog in the machine that is the Lunarpages community.

So what are the other parts of the Lunarpages community of sites? We have:

• Lunarforums.com – Our social stomping grounds where you can get to meet other Lunarpages clients, and share your stories and ask questions that might be troubling you.  It is both kid friendly, and mother approved.
• Lunarpages Web Hosting Newsletter – Check out the archives of our monthly client newsletter, which is always packed full of helpful tutorials, useful tips and other interesting aspects of the web hosting world.
• Lunarpages Web Hosting Wiki – Over 300+ guides and tutorials on every aspect of Lunarpages, web development, and account management.

Last, but not least – we can not forget our social profiles on the Web.

• Lunarpages on Twitter
• Lunarpages on Facebook

The Lunarpages Community? The Lunarmunity? The Kings and Queens of the Cosmos? You take your pick.  One thing though that can be said for sure is that Lunarpages has one of the best communities out there to date, by far.