Tag Archives | design

8 bit Google Maps showing our offices

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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Sponsoring 24 The Web

By on October 20, 2011 in Charity, Events

Here at Blacknight we’re strong believers in supporting interesting and / or worthy causes. We’ve sponsored plenty of events over the last few years and hopefully we’ll continue to be able to do so. Personally I love the concept behind 24 The Web. It’s so simple and incredible, so when I heard that Stewart was [...]

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The Blacknight Link Roundup Week 1

By on April 18, 2011 in Tips

Every week I go through 10 .. 20 .. 100 links that I’d love to keep track of … a long time ago I stopped using bookmarks because … I’ve just got too many of them. I’ve used various tools like http://www.delicious.com/ and http://www.stumbleupon.com/ but you know what? … I keep on leaving tabs open [...]

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We Need Your Feedback!

By on February 24, 2010 in Blacknight, Feedback

UPDATE 28/2: New screenshot added belowThe Blacknight hosting platform is very powerful and has a lot of fantastic features. However, the control panel is not perfect and we are all too aware of this. The control panel vendors, Parallels, have been working closely with us to improve aspects of the system so that: You are [...]

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Horses, Foam and Coffee

By on July 28, 2009 in Blacknight, Marketing

The guys in MadeInHollywood did a fantastic job on our mug packaging a few weeks ago. They’ve since gone off and taken some more photos of the packaging with actual Blacknight branded mugs (we didn’t have any!) and I thought they looked really cool, so here they are: And another angle…Which leads into this angle [...]

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More Cool Foam Stuff

By on July 2, 2009 in Blacknight, Marketing

The guys in MadeInHollywood have come up with yet another cool concept. Remember when we had a few Microsoft mugs to give away? Well one of the problems we ran into was that the mugs weren’t packed ie. no boxes or anything, so shipping them was a problem. MadeInHollywood came up with a pretty cool [...]

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Tshirt Competition – The Aftermath

By on June 9, 2009 in Blacknight, Competitions

Sorry for not posting about the tshirt competition – we got a little sidetracked with other things … In any case … We received a lot of really impressive entries – so many that it proved impossible to chose a single winner, so we “chickened out” and chose three! The winners we chose were: Jennifer [...]

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A New Homepage?

By on May 17, 2009 in Blacknight

We love getting feedback from people and while we may not always reply or act on it, we do listen and read it all. So it’s only fair that we share one user’s vision for our website. Admittedly it’s a bit biased, but I thought we’d share it anyway … Well what do you think? [...]

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Tshirt Competition – Some of the Entries

By on April 3, 2009 in Competitions

Over the last couple of days we’ve received several excellent entries for our tshirt competition. So here are some of them below: RedMillion provided these three entries (click to enlarge): Jennifer from Laughing Lion provided these:John Braine came up with this one: We’ve also received a couple of entries from people who didn’t include a [...]

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Tshirt Competition Update (Again!)

By on March 28, 2009 in Competitions

Since a couple of people have been asking about sourcing our logo for the tshirt competition I’ve made available the Blacknight logo in both Illustrator and EPS format. You can download them as a Zip file here. If you want to enter and win then what are you waiting for?

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Toddle – Make Your Email Newsletter Stand Out

By on August 12, 2008 in Blacknight, Email, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, Tips

I mentioned the Tuesday push recently in relation to pix.ie.

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