Things have slowed down a little in the office over the past few days, not so many urgent emails to deal with but we can see that lots of you are getting busy with your books.  Even today on Christmas Eve lots of people are beavering away uploading photos and tweaking the profile page lay [...]

Well I have had some Christmas lights up on my monitors for a couple of days now but today Christmas really arrived in the form of Ewa form our lovely printers.  She came bearing a huge pile of boxes tied up with ribbon and full of yummy goodies and Christmas crackers. Whilst Jake and Gem [...]

There’s a Canadian yearbook company that also keep a blog about yearbooks which seems well worth a read: www.yearbookpublishingandprinting.com

We needed to disable all of Drupal’s CSS files from our theme. Here’s how we did it: function THEMENAME_preprocess(&$variables) {   // Get rid of all of Drupal’s CSS files   $css = drupal_add_css();   foreach ($css['all']['module'] as $file => $status) {     if (!strstr($file, ‘modules/MYMODULE’)) {       unset($css['all']['module'][$file]);     }   }   $variables['styles'] [...]

After far too much time and effort, Jake and I have managed to make an automated backup system for the AllYearbooks office. Our main network shared drive will (hopefully) now be backed up on a daily basis to two portable 2.5in SATA hard drives, both which will be stored off-site. Our main office server which [...]

As David pointed out in the last blog post, we are currently under heavy development here at the AllYearbooks’ offices busy developing new and exciting features for the coming academic yearbooks. Apart from the chat system (which is already working) we’re well on the way to implementing a new way of generating the final PDF [...]

It’s site development season! The last few months in Jake and Jamey’s room haven’t just been about increasing monitor volume. While Nic and I keep on top of everyone’s needs, they’ve been programming like demons. So what’s new? There’s even better security and backups for the online information and enough server capacity to support all [...]

People are making real headway with their books at the moment and that includes finalizing the numbers and getting deposits in.  Which often leads to the question “how do we make our book cheaper?”  Well, we do our best to keep the prices down at this end, our returning customers know that we have hardly [...]