Archive | April, 2012

New IE Domain Promotional Graphics – What Do You Think?

By on April 27, 2012 in Domains, Marketing

IEDR have made available a number of graphics to promote .ie domain names. Here they are:   What do you think of them? Related articles IE Domains Break 175 Thousand Mark And Reports Growth (internetnews.me)

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Speed Up Your WordPress Content Creation

By on April 26, 2012 in WordPress

One of the great features of WordPress is the ease at which you can add Pages and Posts to a site.  With a simple click you can create, edit and publish content.  So for a once off website creation you can be up and running in literally a few hours if you know what structures [...]

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Paypal Users – Check Your Code!

By on April 18, 2012 in ecommerce

Paypal are making some subtle, yet important, changes in how they handle redirects and landing pages for their merchants ie. those of us who use Paypal as a method of accepting payments. If you don’t accept payments using Paypal then this will not impact you. At the moment if you are an Irish Paypal user [...]

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Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office

By on April 16, 2012 in Careers, News, Press Releases

Our latest press release went out this morning. Full text below:   Blacknight Announce Available Positions In Carlow Office Irish registrar and hosting company continues to grow despite economic downturn Blacknight is growing despite one of the toughest economic downturns on record. At a time when many companies are laying off staff and shuttering offices, [...]

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Are You Ready To Join The Mobile Revolution?

By on April 9, 2012 in mobile, Promotions

We’re strong believers in mobile. Just look around you. More and more people have smartphones, iPads, tablet computers and other handheld devices. Is your website ready for these users? Will it display properly on a mobile device? Have you tweaked the content so that the important bits are readily accessible for users on mobile devices [...]

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Even Dragons Like Social Media

By on April 6, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Social Media

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published and boy is it a long list! It’s so long that Damien and his team have had to split it up into sections: Social Media Effectiveness, Integrated, Social Media for Elections PR, State Body, Mobile [...]

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Happy Easter 2012

Save Money Buy More Easter Eggs!

By on April 5, 2012 in Promotions

This weekend is Easter, which is a wonderful excuse for people to gorge themselves on chocolate eggs and other tasty goodies! Here at Blacknight we thought we’d be nice to people and help them save a bit of cash, so we’re giving a discount on 1 year .eu registrations AND we’re also giving a nice [...]

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Have You Updated Your Business Facebook Page For The Timeline?

By on April 2, 2012 in General, Marketing, Tips

Facebook introduced the new timeline for users a few months ago. For the last month or so they’ve let business pages switch on the new timeline and let people know that on the 30th of March all pages would be switched over. The time is now so if you haven’t updated or checked in on [...]

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Remember Low Resolution Graphics?

By on April 1, 2012 in General

Today is April Fool’s Day, so a lot of people and companies are playing silly tricks on people. Google Maps currently has an option labelled “Quest” which displays maps using 8 bit graphics. It reminds me of when I first started using computers back in the 1980s. Computers were a lot less powerful – my [...]

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