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Do you find yourself communicating more and more through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat? Excellent! That way your customers can reach you more quickly and easily. Yet despite having all these different channels, having your own website is still essential. “I can’t see the added value of having my own website” “You wouldn’t build your […]
We receive many calls about “making my site show up in Google”. While we don’t offer web development services, nor are we SEO consultants, we deal with the topic on a daily basis. Seeing as it’s such a necessity to so many of our clients, we wrote an article which should be of help to […]
Yesterday, Sunday 24th January 2016, accompanied by the IEDR, Blacknight attended Showcase Ireland’s Creative Expo®. On behalf of Blacknight, armed with merely a laptop and a PowerPoint presentation I spoke to a full house on the topic ‘Boosting your online business and success’. Presentation overview Search engine optimisation Content Management Webmaster tools & tricks Tips […]
Another year, another misleading direct mail. I’m tempted to call this a scam, but I’ll call it “misleading” for now and you can make up your mind. “Data Assortment Ireland” have been sending out very professional looking letters to Irish businesses. Here’s what the letter looks like: With a name like “Data Assortment Ireland” you […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were only about 20 generic top level domain extensions (the bit on the right of the dot) and about 250 country code domain extensions (such as co.uk (UK), .it (Italy) etc.,). Now that is all changing and over the next couple of years the number of […]
We’ve been providing Flash video tutorials and other resources for our clients for years. Originally we bought several sets of “standard” tutorials from DemoDemo, but when we were re-launching our shared hosting plans a few years ago we had to get Vito from DemoDemo to prepare a bunch of tutorials specifically for us. Since then […]
Waking up today and we’re hearing about more issues with certain plugins so once again here’s the type of blog post you see quite a bit on here. It’s namely the keep your website up to date post. You generally keep the software on your computer up to date don’t you? There are new features, […]
Hot on the heels of “An introduction to the shiny new Blacknight control panel” post we’re giving you a post about empowering your users a small bit more. If you’re managing a number of email accounts you no doubt get requests along the lines of how do I add an auto responder for when I’m […]
Everyone seems to be writing their new year’s resolution posts over the last few days, so rather than tell you that we’re going to give up chocolate or cut down on coffee, why don’t we share some tips that you could add to your new year’s resolutions for your business? Get a blog (of course […]
Existing Blacknight client? Want to take advantage of the Google Adwords deal? Or how about the stock photos one? You can access these and other special offers easily via your control panel. They all “live” under the “special offers” tab: Any questions? Let us know! Related articles Market and Promote Your Online Business (technology.ie) Press […]
In the run up to Christmas a lot of people will be tweaking their websites to bring a slightly “festive” touch. We traditionally change our logo or add a couple of subtle things to our site and of course we’ll probably do a few mailers etc., that are in the spirit of the time of […]
We offer a very wide range of Linux templates on our cloud hosting plans. If you’re a hardcore Linux geek you probably already have your favourite flavour. You’ll know which one you want (and this article probably isn’t for you!) But what about the rest of you? Which version of Linux should you choose? Why […]