How to Add a Members Google Gadget

Want to show off how many followers or members your web site has?  The perfect tool for this job, is the members gadget from the Google Connect service.  It shows a grid of photos for each web site visitor who considers themselves a, “member” of your online service.

So, where do we begin?

If you need help getting started with Google Friend Connect, check out our setup guide.

The first step would be to go to the Google Friend Connect page, and then click on the “Add the members gadget” link.

Setting up your Members Gadget

On the Members page, you can choose how you want your specific gadget to look and feel.  You can setup the size, colors and then grab the HTML code you will need to copy and paste into your web site template or layout.

Remember: Adjust the width and height here so that the gadget fits within your page. Members gadgets can be as narrow as 200 pixels, and have as few as 2 rows of faces.

Once you get it on your web site, your web site visitors can use this new web site tool to count themselves as a follower of your web site.

Make it easy for users to join your site and meet other users.  Add this members gadget to your own Lunarpages web hosting account today, and add a little more interactivity to your own web site.

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Quickly Add a Newsletter to Your Site

Using Google Friend Connect at Lunarpages

Google, through the Google Friend Connect service, give you a way to send out a very simple newsletter to your web site visitors.  If you just have a small update to send out – and you don’t need anything too fancy – this is a great alternative, that will also get your web site visitors to interact more with your web site. 

Now, how do you get started?

If you need help getting started with Google Friend Connect, check out our setup guide.

The first step would be to go to the Google Friend Connect page, and then click on the “Send a Newsletter” link.

Send a simple newsletter!

Setting Up Your Newsletter Gadget

On the Newsletters page, click on the tab labeled, “Newsletter gadget”.  This will allow you to setup the basics of your newsletter and a gadget that people can use to sign up for it using Google Friend Connect.

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Step 1 – Options – Here you give your headline for the gadget box, such as, “Sign up for the newsletter!”  You also give some text describing it, such as, “Get the latest updates for free!” and then you decide how large your want the gadget to be, by pixels.

Step 2 – Colors – In the “Choose Colors” section, you pick the colors and font you want to use in your gadget.  Leaving one of the values empty means it will be transparent.

Step 3 – Generate Code – To create the HTML code you will copy and pate into your own web site layout, click the “Generate Code” button.

Composing a Newsletter & Reading Archives

Easy Newsletter Management

To compose your newsletter, all you need to do is click on the tab at the top labeled, “Compose Newsletter”.  You will then be taken to a WYSIWYG editor where you can write it up. To check out past newsletters, click on the tab labeled “Newsletter history”. 

Now this might not be for professional newsletters and updates, but for smaller scale businesses or groups – this could be perfect to help get the news out about updates or changes. 

© Lunarpages Web Hosting – Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

How to Add a Members Google Gadget

Want to show off how many followers or members your web site has?  The perfect tool for this job, is the members gadget from the Google Connect service.  It shows a grid of photos for each web site visitor who considers themselves a, “member” of your online service.

So, where do we begin?

If you need help getting started with Google Friend Connect, check out our setup guide.

The first step would be to go to the Google Friend Connect page, and then click on the “Add the members gadget” link.

Setting up your Members Gadget

On the Members page, you can choose how you want your specific gadget to look and feel.  You can setup the size, colors and then grab the HTML code you will need to copy and paste into your web site template or layout.

Remember: Adjust the width and height here so that the gadget fits within your page. Members gadgets can be as narrow as 200 pixels, and have as few as 2 rows of faces.

Once you get it on your web site, your web site visitors can use this new web site tool to count themselves as a follower of your web site.

Make it easy for users to join your site and meet other users.  Add this members gadget to your own Lunarpages web hosting account today, and add a little more interactivity to your own web site.

© Lunarpages Web Hosting – Also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Quickly Add a Newsletter to Your Site

Using Google Friend Connect at Lunarpages

Google, through the Google Friend Connect service, give you a way to send out a very simple newsletter to your web site visitors.  If you just have a small update to send out – and you don’t need anything too fancy – this is a great alternative, that will also get your web site visitors to interact more with your web site. 

Now, how do you get started?

If you need help getting started with Google Friend Connect, check out our setup guide.

The first step would be to go to the Google Friend Connect page, and then click on the “Send a Newsletter” link.

Send a simple newsletter!

Setting Up Your Newsletter Gadget

On the Newsletters page, click on the tab labeled, “Newsletter gadget”.  This will allow you to setup the basics of your newsletter and a gadget that people can use to sign up for it using Google Friend Connect.

Easy Newsletter Hosting

Step 1 – Options – Here you give your headline for the gadget box, such as, “Sign up for the newsletter!”  You also give some text describing it, such as, “Get the latest updates for free!” and then you decide how large your want the gadget to be, by pixels.

Step 2 – Colors – In the “Choose Colors” section, you pick the colors and font you want to use in your gadget.  Leaving one of the values empty means it will be transparent.

Step 3 – Generate Code – To create the HTML code you will copy and pate into your own web site layout, click the “Generate Code” button.

Composing a Newsletter & Reading Archives

Easy Newsletter Management

To compose your newsletter, all you need to do is click on the tab at the top labeled, “Compose Newsletter”.  You will then be taken to a WYSIWYG editor where you can write it up. To check out past newsletters, click on the tab labeled “Newsletter history”. 

Now this might not be for professional newsletters and updates, but for smaller scale businesses or groups – this could be perfect to help get the news out about updates or changes. 

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Best of the Bit.ly Tools

Power Tools for bit.ly

Quickly becoming my new favorite link shortening service, Bit.ly has a lot to offer, and a wide variety of tools to use with it.  Why is it the best? It offers stats, shortens links and well, I do have to say these tools play a big part too.

Here are a few bit.ly tools I’ve run across:

bit.ly preview – an add-on for Firefox that will give you a thumbnail preview whenever you hover over any bit.ly link.  If you hover over another short URL, http://tinyurl.com/5qhkwo, for example, we show the Page Title and Long URL for these links as well. (two for one deal!)

Twitter Search (for bit.ly links) – Search all the tweets from around the world, to see which have used bit.ly links to get there.

Snip-n-Tag – a Firefox extension that will shorten your URLs and add Google Analytics tracking tags.  Great for measuring traffic from Twitter.

Sidebars and Bookmarklets – The people at bit.ly have also produced two bookmarklets to use.  One will auto-create a bit.ly link out of the page you are looking at and the other will do so, and give you statistics about that link in a sidebar.

Gmail Gadget – Now you can shorten your links, using bit.ly, from within Gmail.

Who’s Using bit.ly Right Now? – A Twitter account where you can check out all the latest links that have been shared via the bit.ly link shortening service.

Have another favorite tool to use with bit.ly? Leave a comment!

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