The AllYearbooks offices have been a bit quiet this morning, Gmail is not a happy bunny and has been down most of the morning so one of our lines of contact with clients has been cut! For a while it was fun watching the whole world twitter about the lack of Gmail but now I [...]
It’s the final day of half-term week for most people, and everyone seems tro have vanished! Dead … or just gone somewhere away from a computer to relish in their last few hours of freedom and holiday homework guilt, the inbox is left quiet. With little enough interest in yearbooks today, I might as well [...]
The first email I got this morning had this question: “do we have to go through the website to make our yearbook? – can we not send you the information and you make it into the yearbook?” We get asked a lot, and I think it shows how people are thinking about the website in [...]
We launched a major new feature on the 14th of October last year: a built-in chat system. Since then, we have chatted to a remarkable 144 different customers who have yearbooks with us and in that time over 12,000 lines of chat have been sent back-and-forth between the staff here and our wonderful customers. When [...]
Almost everyone designs some of their own pages for their yearbook, whether it is an introduction page, a review of the school play or a photo collage. There are a few things you might want to consider when you start thinking about page design, one of which is a tricky thing called bleed! In design [...]
After launching the new features last Friday, Jake has been busy carrying out impromptu usability tests with people who could be potential AllYearbooks customers. So far, the results have been interesting! Lots of the copy wording on the main website and yearbooks area is being updated to make it more clear, concise and easy-to-use. As [...]
We’ve had some people in the last few weeks talking about promoting the yearbook. Not surprising, because we’re heading for times when there’ll be rushing and shouting and deposits… and then it’s yearbook publishing time – oh no! A great way to start is collecting deposits – it makes people want to try it out [...]
The new look online yearbook site for our customers has FINALLY gone live! After a couple of months of extra development – where Jake and Jamie basically decided to skip ahead and stick a load of extra stuff – we launched on Tuesday, with a swift and nifty update on Wednesday to bring in the [...]
Now the yearbooks are well on their way don’t forget about your cover. David and I enjoy helping design covers, last year people came up with some fabulous covers and we’re waiting to see all your ideas for this year. One of the things that can hold up making a cover is getting a good [...]
About five years a go, me and a bunch of climber friends of mine in Sheffield built an eight foot high snowman, with a snow scarf, a snow hat and a snow dog. I’ve got some great pictures somewhere, which I’ll try to dig up for this post. Now we want to see what you [...]