Archive for the 'Design' Category

Vanilla Web Forum Hosting at Lunarpages

Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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 [...]

Free Flash Template Designs from Lunarpages

Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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 [...]

Save Bandwidth, Shrink That Style Sheet!

Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Depending on how many notes or messy modifications you make to your cascading style sheets, you might be about due for a little compression.  By shrinking you external CSS files, you can save the bandwidth it takes to download them, each time somebody visits your web site. 
Now how much optimization should you do?  Well, [...]

Simple 3 Step Web Site Publishing

Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009

It has been a while since we had a look at the LPQuicksite hosting plan, so I thought I would show you how you can get your website built in 2 hours or less with our fantastic publishing tools. A lot of you might think the simple three step process is more of a sales [...]

Create or Find Color Palettes from Images

Posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Ever looked at a picture and wish you could grab the HTML color codes for the specific picture in question?  Perhaps it has a really interesting orange or red you would really like to use in your layout.  Maybe you should try Color Hunter.
This web site allows you to search for pictures, color palettes, [...]

Basic Web Design from Lunarpages

Posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

You can get started affordably with a five page web site professionally designed by Lunarpages.  Within the web design plans we offer, Website Package 1 will provide you with your web hosting, domain registration and web site design are all placed in the hands of Lunarpages.  It is the ideal hosting plan for small [...]

60+ Links to Help You Learn CSS Web Design

Posted on Monday, September 28th, 2009

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 [...]

Basics of CSS in Web Design

Posted on Friday, September 25th, 2009

Adding a Cascading Style Sheet to your current web site layout and save you time and make your web site look a lot more professional in the process.  Cascading Style Sheets, or sometimes referred to as CSS, is a style sheet language used to describe how a web page should be formatted.
For example, if you [...]

Speed Up Pages by Combining External CSS

Posted on Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Tell me, which of these would be easier to do? Carry ten pieces of luggage with you on your trip, or put everything into one piece of luggage?  The second, of course.  The same thing could be said for CSS files in your web site’s code. 
The use of multiple external CSS files, can [...]

Web Icons Perfect for Any Layout or Design

Posted on Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Are you in need of a few good icons for you next big web design project?  None get any better than those featured over on iconBin.  Quickly becoming one of my favorite hunting grounds for icons, this web site has tons of free icons you can use on your own layouts and designs.
Here [...]