About James Larkin

I'm a web designer by day and by night I like to dabble in web design. At Blacknight I work on lots of different things templating this (Blacknight Blog) and that (Blacknight Store), creating this Dropped.ie and helping create that (Getting Business Online). Daily I get to work on lots of different things be they marketing, support, design or development related. My cat (Squishy) seems to turn up regularly in strange places and might betray my interest in photography.

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Patch up WordPress ( please )

By on April 25, 2013 in security, Tips, WordPress

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, [...]

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Reduced staff Friday the 12th of April 2013

By on April 10, 2013 in General

As a mark of respect to Mr Thomas Kelly (beloved father of Paul Kelly (Blacknight founder and CTO), the Blacknight offices will be closed Friday 12th April until 2:00 PM and will operate a reduced staff number on the sales / service desk for live-chats and email . The offices will re-open for normal business [...]

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We like stats part II

By on March 14, 2013 in Domains, General, iedr, Promotions

It has been a while since we last posted any stats on the blog. So we’re at it again. The below are stats for the .ie ccTLD. (Hint: There are discounts to celebrate at the bottom) Just like the last time the graphs really do speak for themselves. First up it’s the number of new [...]

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Giving your users more control of their email.

By on March 7, 2013 in General, Tips

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 [...]

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The Shiny New Blacknight Control Panel

By on March 7, 2013 in General

Well it’s a bit over a week on from our upgrade of the Control Panel and we’re rather happy with how things worked out. We’ve been listening to feedback on twitter / facebook on the blog about it all and it has been mostly positive with one or two questions as to why the display [...]

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We're Upgrading

We’re upgrading our Control Panel and we hope you won’t be too shocked.

By on February 22, 2013 in Hosting, Maintenance, News

What’s happening?? When is it happening? Tuesday the 26th February 2013 we’re going to be upgrading our Control Panel. It’s going to be happening at 3am  to minimise the impact on our customers. During this time the Control Panel is going to be unavailable at various times. We’ll be updating our Status Blog with complete [...]

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Web Monkey Wanted

We’re hiring again and we’re looking for a web monkey

By on February 22, 2013 in Careers

Are you a “Web Monkey”? Able to hold your own with the likes of WordPress or Joomla or hell it doesn’t really matter which CMS it is you’ll deal with it? Are you a self starter? It needs to get done and you’ll figure it out. Tinkered with PHP / ASP.NET / Ruby / Perl [...]

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Where do I go now Posterous is closing down?

By on February 21, 2013 in Blogging, Domains, Hosting, Promotions

This week we’ve seen the news that Posterous is closing down towards the end of April. The old saying “if you’re not paying for a product then you are the product” seems to ring true once again. It goes to show that if you plan on setting up a home on the web it really [...]

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The Roses Are Red Post

The roses are red post … have we said too much?

By on February 14, 2013 in .co, .me, Promotions

Roses are red, Violets are blue, We love domains, We hope you do too! We wouldn’t be Blacknight if we didn’t try and do things our way. We announced last week that if you bought a .me or .co domain not only would you be getting them at a great discount but we’d be sending [...]

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The absolutely nothing to do with football post

and the kindle Paperwhite winner is…

By on February 1, 2013 in Competitions

We’ve been running a competition to win a Kindle Paperwhite for the last few weeks and we’re pleased to say we’re finally announcing the winner. Keith from Kildare has been contacted already and the below should be winging it’s way to him shortly. Even if you didn’t win you can still be a winner with [...]

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New Year New Resolutions

New Year and New Resolutions

By on January 8, 2013 in Marketing, Social Media, Tips

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 [...]

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Getting your feet wet…

By on December 21, 2012 in Competitions

We’ll be announcing two winners today in this post. Conference calls and work seem to be getting the better of us. Day 3′s question: What’s the most popular Linux template on our cloud hosting system ? If you did a bit of a search on our blog you’d have found our post on Which Version [...]

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