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Archive for October, 2009

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Early-bird discounts extended – save up to 10%!

by jake ~ October 28th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve decided to extend our early bird discounts by a month. You now get 10% off your total order if you get a £200 deposit to us by end of November, or 5% off by end of December.
We’ve done this to alleviate the frustration some students are finding in getting the school finance departments to [...]

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How our online yearbook system works

by jake ~ October 27th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

There are now many companies offering online yearbook-creation systems. But they all work differently. I’ll try to explain how ours differs from the competition, and why we think ours is is the best.
1. Online DTP yearbook creation
Most of the US yearbook publishers and a couple of UK companies have basically put a DTP (desktop publishing) [...]

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Windows 7 arrives!

by jake ~ October 22nd, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve just received our 6 copies of Windows 7 so that Jamey and I can finally upgrade from Windows XP, and Nic, David and Pratik can get off that blasted Vista. It all means we’ll be able to make your yearbooks that little bit easier

Edit (Jamey): I don’t actually like Microsoft, or Windows, [...]

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Talk on our AJAX yearbook system

by jake ~ October 9th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

On Wednesday night Jamey and I did a one hour talk at Refresh Cambridge on our use of an AJAX layer on top of AllYearbooks, our web-based yearbook creation system. It was rather technical but at the same time we could easily have talked for twice as long and still not have covered all the [...]

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Who to speak to about your yearbook

by jake ~ October 6th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

This year we decided that we’re growing so fast that it would be easier for our customers to – as much as possible – speak to just one of us, rather than whoever answers the phone first. We’ve made this really easy:

Pratik will be helping with all Year 11  (S4 in Scotland) yearbooks
David will be [...]

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Instant yearbook price quote

by jake ~ October 1st, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

We love being transparent about our prices – and we’ve always put as much pricing information as possible on our website for anyone to see.
Because the price per book changes as you change the number of copies and pages in your yearbook, we used to have a full grid of our prices on the prices [...]

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Save up to 10% on your yearbooks!

by jake ~ October 1st, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve finalized details of a special offer we’re making to anyone who pays their deposit nice and early. Save the following amounts on your yearbooks by getting your £200 deposit to us early:

10% off if received before end of October
or 5% off if received before end of November

Note: these offers cannot be used in conjunction [...]