One of the world’s best open-source newsletter managers can be installed a number of different ways, here at Lunarpages.  PHPlist is a free script that will handle all your  newsletter or mailing lists for you.  It is downloaded over 10,000 tie per month – and is possibly one of the most popular open-source scripts [...]

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, [...]

There are a lot of tools out there to help you see how well you are doing via the search engines out there, but few do it as completely as RankBuzz.  This online tool not only gives you your Google PageRank, but also provides your Alexa rank, thumbnail, whois information, index pages, social links, on [...]

I have shown you in the past how to promote yourself with a twitter search widget, but now I have found another solution to get the same task done.  If you are a user of HootSuite, you can now create embeddable columns that you can then take from your HootSuite account and embed via your [...]

The gadget team over at Google have made it really easy to grab any number of tools they have featured there and display them on your web site.  At the time of writing this, they have over 175,000 little boxes of information to share with your own visitors.
To get started with adding your own, first [...]

Did you notice we added a new translation button to the Lunarpages web hosting wiki yesterday?  Now our wonderful international audience can gain access to all the wonderful tips, tutorials and information the wiki has to offer.
How can you add this same functionality to your own web site?  The magic starts on the Google Translate [...]

Looking for something to add to your web site to add a little more interactivity?  How about the Twitter search widget?  This is a service I just found out about, and I do have to say it makes for an interesting web site highlight.
All you have to do is go to the Twitter Search Widget [...]

A widget platform which really simplifies the development, syndication and statistics of the widgets in question is yourminis.  They give you both a gallery of widgets to copy and paste onto your own web site, as well as, the tolls you will need to develop your own customized widgets.
If you need a widget to [...]

It is always good to search for ways to make yourself different from the pack, and one way to get that done is to perhaps provide your web site users thumbnail previews of the links they are visiting.  Snap Shots provides you with this new web site interactivity, and it is easy to setup.
The [...]

When it comes to planning out a brand new web site, organizing your thoughts can be rather difficult.  You might know you want to design a web site about a specific topic, but can’t decide what else you might need in that web site to help it become successful.  Mind maps are one great way [...]