Getting your yearbooks can be really exciting… but now we’re making it even more exciting with a little competition we’ve just launched which can win you £200 just by taking a photo and sending it to us when you get your books. So what are you waiting for? If you’ve already got your yearbooks from [...]

Follow these 5 top tips to ensure your yearbook isn’t the “Worst yearbook ever”: allow us to make up to 10 collage pages for you… they look lovely! use our online system and allow members to upload their own photos rather than using low-resolution ones taken by the school photographer allow us to help you [...]

A lovely article just came out in The Guardian talking about how yearbooks are really taking off now here in the UK. We were featured heavily in the article, including quotes I made – all very exciting We can’t wait to see the article in the printed copy of the Education Guardian tomorrow! You can [...]

In the past, and with many of our competitors, you’d wait months from when you think your yearbook is complete until you get it delivered, partly because of a long and laborious proofing process. Not with us. With our advanced online system, we put you in control of the whole proofing process. No more waiting [...]

You can upload two types of photos into your yearbooks: profile photos and collage photos. Profile photos are used on your individual profile pages (or at least your space on that page if more than one person per page), and collage photos are uploaded into photo folders such as “Summer Party 2009″ which can then [...]

After sending 10 yearbooks to print this morning I was amazed by the number of them that were hardback rather than paperback, so I did a bit of number crunching. It turns out that this academic year we’ve seen a marked change in the percentage of our customers going for hardback yearbooks, particularly laminated hardback [...]

Easter holidays are now over, and it’s back to school again for most of our customers. We’ve been busy working with you on your yearbooks over the Easter break, and now we’re really ramping up the number of yearbooks we’re sending to print each week. If you haven’t already, figure out when you need your [...]

We apologise for the downtime the site has experienced yesterday (1 hour) and today (5 hours). The downtime was caused primarily by a corrupt table in the database (which was fixed without damage) which caused a domino effect of other problems. We believe we’ve now addressed the issues but we’re be checking the server as [...]

The world needs a new hero. The world needs… Mr Yearbook Man! Coming soon to a screen near you.

Yesterday at 10.40am, Jamey, my fellow web developer, accidentally deleted out the entire database holding all our yearbooks online – photos, entries, pages, users… everything. Suddenly anyone trying to access the website would have seen a blank error page, not knowing the full extent of the problem. I found out about 20 seconds later when [...]