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Have you already started selling cool tshirts via your website?
If you haven't, then get to it!
Our partners Spreadshirt have produced a number of tools to cater to the more advanced users. You can download tools and code over on the new SpreadShirt Developer zone.
We'll be announcing a special offer from our partner very soon - so keep an eye on your inbox and subscribe to this blog's feed!
If your site can't be found easily, then it might as well not exist.
A couple of months ago I posted a couple of tips on search engine optimisation (SEO) which you may have found useful.
To supplement this we've now added a set of SEO tools to our linux hosting control panel:
Simply click on the link and it will take you to the seo tools page.
The tools available include a range of features to help you and include a "spider check" which will give you a search engine's view of your site, submission tools and rank checking.
Feedback, as always, is welcome.
Here at Blacknight we are passionate about blogs and blogging, or at least I am 
As more and more companies embrace blogging and RSS to keep people up to date with their latest happenings the number of RSS feeds you may end up reading just keeps on growing.
A year ago I probably tracked ten or fifteen blogs on a regular basis and I only subscribed to the feeds of one or two. Nowadays I find myself tracking a much larger number, while my RSS subscription folder in Thunderbird just keeps on growing.
Services like Feedburner make it a lot easier for both bloggers and their readers to keep track of what's going on, while FeedBlitz offers you the option to get email updates as well.
Of course the biggest problem these days is finding blogs that are worth reading.
So where can you begin?
If you are interested in finding out what other Irish bloggers are saying then you could have a look at some of the Irish blog sites:
No matter what your area of interest you are sure to find a blog to suit your taste!
PS: You can now subscribe to this blog via both Feedburner and FeedBlitz!!
We've added MS SQL 2005 support to select windows server 2003 hosting plans.
You can choose to setup MS SQL 2000 or MS SQL 2005 databases with any of the following hosting plans:
Our Windows Server 2003 hosting plans now come with support for the following technologies:
And don't forget... you can save 15% if you move from another hosting provider to Blacknight.
A few days ago we offered free Ruby On Rails hosting to a number of people to help us test it all out.
While we thought that we'd get some interest, we never expected for it to receive the level of interest that it did.
So we'd now like to know what you have managed to do with it.
Maybe you have created the next web 2.0 cool app (sic), or maybe you've simply setup a blog or a forum.
No matter what you've created we'd like to hear about it!