As you may or may not know, Wordpress (our blogging platform) has recently come under attack by a new worm virus that infects many of the admin tools in the Wordpress installation. We were infected and consequently had to temporarily turn off comments as this was the main area affected (over 200 spam comments a day). The only way to prevent this, or recover from it, is to upgrade the Wordpress installation. Easy, right? Well… It’s supposed to be, they even have an “automatic upgrade” where there’s no user input needed. Of course in the instructions it says that sometimes this option doesn’t work. I guess this time was one of ‘em. So we upgraded the manual way, deleting old files and uploading new ones to replace them. Well, as I said, it’s a good thing we back stuff up. After updating, the blog stopped working (the instructions said this might happen also). Well, not completely, we just couldn’t access anything. We couldn’t post anything or even get in to delete all those spam comments. We’ve now reverted back to the old version and are working on getting the new one back up again. If you were visiting at all in the last 48 hours, sorry, we’re still working on it. So if you see a missing pic, or something just doesn’t look quite right, now you know.
But hey, what better opportunity than to share with our clients, that yes, as with our blog, we do keep backups of all of your images. If something were to happen to the files on our computer, we’ve still got the originals elsewhere. You know, peace of mind and all that…
Update:: We are booked for all the Saturdays in October… We still have some weekday evenings open but November is starting to fill up too, so if you’re wanting pics for your Holiday Cards, contact us today!
We recently decided to start offering some new products and I’m going to try to remember to start showing off some of them here on the blog.
First up, is the 5×15 collage print. Here’s an example we did recently for Bailee.
And while we have your attention, if you’re wanting a fall session for Christmas Cards (more on that soon) or just because you want one, October is filling up fast. We only have one Saturday session left in October! We’ll still do weekday evening sessions, but as most people prefer weekends, you’d better hurry!
Here’s a new custom newborn birth announcement. You might remember her from this post. These announcements are available for your newborn (or other custom card needs) in sets of 24 and come with either white or parchment envelopes. This is the 4×5.5″, but they are also available in 5×7″ and both sizes are available in folded versions as well (8×5.5 folded in half to 4×5.5, and 10×7 folded in half to 5×7).
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So it’s finally cooling off a bit (if only temporarily) and the fall/winter wedding season is coming up. There’s a twitter feed we found that belongs to www.twitter.com/ProjectWedding that has some great tips for brides planning their big day. Recently there was an article with wedding-planner-for-the-stars, Mindy Weiss about some recent trends and tips. There was one comment in particular that we couldn’t agree with more…
PW: Where should you not cut corners?
Mindy: Photography. That is my favorite thing right now! That’s the only thing you can take with you and it’s the only thing left after the wedding. If that sucks … you won’t want to look at your memories. You will look at your photos and go, “I hate these pictures. I should have spent the money.”
How true, How true.
You can read the rest of the article here.
Later…
