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Photobucket hijacked my blog

So for anyone who has a blog you know that you have three options for the look and feel. You can use a blogger standard template, download fancier templates or create your own.

In the initial creation of my blog I chose a combo of the last two options. I downloaded a template I liked and then slightly modified it a bit.

Long story short, apparently in the template one of the images linked to Photobucket (I'm not even going to link to Photobucket I'm so ticked at those guys right now).

Something must have happened to that image because suddenly my blog was hijacked by Photobucket. I've switched to a basic blogger template until I get the time to custom design my own template (so please bare with me while I use this somewhat mundane template for my blog).

An image of what photobucket did to my blog is below.

 

I mean, what the heck? So I'm sure anyone using the template I was using is experiencing the same problems.

Lesson learned... if you are doing anything Web-related check the code and if you find any references to photobucket DO NOT use that template.

This also really goes to show how crucial Web designers are and how in this age of point-and-click Web 2.0 services, that nothing is as simple as it seems.

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