PhotographyBLOG received 10,363 unique visits during February - that’s 370 visits per day on average. Thanks for the support everyone! I’m always looking to improve the site, so if anyone has any bright ideas, leave a comment on this post and let me know…

Just to let you all know that Ryan is the 50th person to sign-up as a member of PhotographyBLOG! (if you don’t count me…)

In the second ever PhotographyBLOG review, I take a look at Pictureflow’s archiving software, Archive Creator. If you regularly copy data and photographs to CDs, Archive Creator will make your life a whole lot easier. If you don’t create backups of your files, then you should start immediately before something inevitably goes wrong; use Archive Creator before it’s too late…

Archive Creator Review

You can now receive the latest news and content from PhotographyBLOG every day, straight into your email inbox! Stay completely up-to-date with everything that’s happening in the world of photography. Simply enter your email address in the “Daily Updates” box (underneath the Calendar) to subscribe.

This completely free service is provided by Bloglet, on behalf of PhotographyBLOG. Bloglet enables you to stay up-to-date with all your favorite weblogs via a single email.

The very first, completely free PhotographyBLOG Wallpapers have been released and are now available to all registered members.

If you are already a PhotographyBLOG member you should shortly receive an email containing download instructions. If you’re not a member then what are you waiting for? Register now to receive your free Wallpapers…

I’ve been hard at work during the last week preparing a brand new addition to PhotographyBLOG. The site now has its very own Discussion Forums, in which you can create new topics about a wide range of photography-related subjects, and leave comments on other people’s posts.

Visit the Forums now!

You can post comments and participate in our forums without registering as a member of PhotographyBLOG. However, there are a lot of benefits if you do choose to register.

The more observant amongst you may have noticed a dramatic change here at PhotographyBLOG…there is now a proliferation of product images throughout the site! I think the images are necessary to illustrate some of the posts, especially the ones concerning new product launches. As I’m on a broadband internet connection, I’d appreciate it if you let me know if the site has slowed down too much as a result of this change.

Visitors to this site may have noticed one of the following display problems since we launched a few weeks ago:

• in Internet Explorer 6, on the first page, the text was cut off at the bottom in line with the navigation menu on the right-hand side
• in Netscape Navigator the navigation menu appeared below the main content of each page, rather than on the right-hand side

About a week ago I fixed the first IE issue, but this in turn caused the Netscape problem. Happily, thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman, I’ve now (fingers crossed) fixed both problems. An Internet Explorer 6 bug was to blame…

The very first, completely free PhotographyBLOG screensaver has been released and is now available to all registered members.

If you are already a PhotographyBLOG member you should shortly receive an email containing download instructions. If you’re not a member then what are you waiting for? Register now to receive your free screensaver…

To help celebrate the successful launch of PhotographyBLOG, we are offering a completely FREE Screensaver to everyone who registers as a member.

The Windows screensaver features the first 9 photos that have been posted on PhotographyBLOG and will be available to download in the next few days. All PhotographyBLOG members will receive an email with instructions for downloading the screensaver.

PhotographyBLOG members will also be eligible for future giveaways, including Wallpaper images and more screensavers.

So register with PhotographyBLOG now to receive your free screensaver!

It seems that we had a slight problem with Comments not being correctly assigned to PhotographyBLOG members.

Now if you login and leave a comment, then go to the Members screen, you should see that the Comment column has incremented by 1.

Apologies for this small glitch, and thanks to Rick Ellis at pMachine for the very quick fix! Also thanks to Sue at My Digital Pictures for her assistance in debugging the problem.

Here’s a quick reminder of the benefits of registering yourself as a member of PhotographyBLOG. When you post a comment, you won’t have to enter your details - just type in and submit your comment. You will appear on the Members screen and be able to see your site statistics e.g. how many comments you’ve actually made. You will also receive the regular PhotographyBLOG Newsletter, starting very soon!