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Digital Railroad, a popular service for professional photographers to archive and sell their images, has closed their doors. On October 28th, existing clients who logged onto Digital Railroad were told they had 24 hours to download their photo archive. However, as clients scrambled to download their images from DRR’s servers, their servers crawled to a [...]

clickbooq’s rich internet application for professional photographers has reached the semi-finalist rounds for this year’s Adobe MAX awards. Adobe MAX is an annual global awards event that recognizes the most innovative projects and services built using Adobe technology. The finalists in each of the six categories (Advertising & Branding, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, Public Sector, [...]

We asked one of our clickbooq photographers to tell us what it was like being on the campaign trail. Lonnie C. Major, who shot the cover of the January issue of BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine, describes the three days he followed Senator Barack Obama on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa in January 2008. “[Senator [...]

If you’re new to the interactive space, or just want to brush up on your web lingo, we’ll be defining some terms for you to help make sense of how the internet works. Web Browser is the generic name for the software you use to view and navigate web page. The browser translates HTML code [...]

How to Post Price Lists and Create Lightboxes with Easy to Remember URLs Here’s a few tips for taking full advantage of your clickbooq FTP account. To post a pricelist on your clickbooq website, or any downloadable file, you can upload the file to your FTP account and easily link to it within a Content [...]

clickbooq is one of the sponsors for WedComp ’08, an international wedding image competition open to all wedding photographers. Leading wedding photographers Susan Stripling, Brooks Whittington, Garrett and Joy Nudd, and David Beckstead are judging the competition. The overall winning image will receive a free annual subscription to clickbooq plus a $1,000 cash prize. WedComp [...]

When using Adobe Photoshop’s Save for Web feature, you may have noticed a shift in color or a reduction in contrast from your originals. This change is due to the fact that Photoshop is a color-managed application and the Web is not. When you utilize Save for Web, the color profile saved to your image [...]

So you’ve finished building your new clickbooq portfolio website and are ready for launch. How can you make the most of your new website launch? Here’s a few pointers to drive traffic to your new website: If you haven’t done so before, submit your website to directories so you can get some inbound links to [...]

While it has been quiet on the clickbooq blog front, it is not for lack of activity. This past month we’ve been hard at work tweaking clickbooq’s Toolbox – where you build and manage your website – and your front-end flash website. We’ve listened to your feedback and requests to introduce new features and enhance [...]

Google has upgraded their Analytics software and released improved tracking code. If you have already installed Google Analytics tracking code on your site within clickbooq’s Settings interface, we recommend installing the new code to take advantage of Google’s latest upgrades and improvements. The old tracking code looks like this (the x’s would be your unique [...]