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Trojan on this website

I just received an e-mail from a reader of this blog, who pointed out that his virus scanner went mental when trying to access this blog, stating that the web page was infected with an Exploit-IFrame.gen.c virus. At first, I thought this was completely ludicrous, and that the good man was completely a) insane, b) computer illiterate and c) on a spamware-infested computer. Upon closer examination, however, it turns out that I was, indeed, the culprit.

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From blog to awesome blog

A couple of weeks ago, we did a guide on how to set up your own photo blog (and, of course, how to make Google love your photography site from a few months back). What struck me, however, is that while having a photo blog is a good start - what should you do to take it from a merely funky collection of photos to a fantastic, highly successful blog? I decided to have a chat to my friend John Cassimatis, who runs a very popular, very successful, and a near-award-winning blog over at johncassimatis.com...

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Creating your own photography blog

This article discusses the what's, how's and why's of running a photography blog. You're a photographer, you've got a camera - probably one of those flashy SLR jobbies - and you have a harem of groupies who follow you wherever you go, and you make a quarter of a million quid out of a moderately sized photo shoot. Yeah, baby, that's what it feels like when you're a shit-hot 'tog. Or so I've been led to believe. In reality - and especially now that digital SLRs have become relatively affordable - the vast bulk of people reading this blog will be amateur photographers. Really good amateurs - hell, fanatic amateurs, even.

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Making Google love your photo site

You're working as a photographer, you take fantastic photos, and you've even got a pretty sweet website to show off your work... So why is your web server just sitting around in the corner, smoking a fag and nipping at a cup of coffee? Why aren't the buyers running the door off its hinges, and, come to think of it, where are your damn groupies, already? The internet is a cold and heartless place, and the biggest source of traffic to any website should be coming from search engines (Photocritic, for example, gets about 70% of its traffic from search engines. Mind you, it's mostly people looking for pictures of nude women. Go figure.) Luckily, there are quite a few things you can do as a photographer to make your site really zing in the search engines - and for the sake of making a nice round figure (and, of course, so the Digg and Reddit crowds will love it like a kitten loves tuna fish) - here's a lovely top-10 list to get you started!

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Web 2.0, meet Photoshop

Ever find yourself on a computer without any editing software? All you want to do is to crop an image, fix the contrast, and resize it? Well, if you've got a reasonably new browser, you're saved: Enter Picnik, a brand new type of image editing software, bringing the genre well into line with all the other Web 2.0 apps out there. In short, Picnik is to Photoshop what gmail is to e-mail, YouTube is to videos, Flickr is to pictures, Pandora is to music, and CleVR is to panoramas!

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