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Mr Yearbook Man

by jake ~ March 21st, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

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

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Your data is safe with us

by jake ~ March 12th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

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 [...]

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Data loss

by jake ~ March 11th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

Due to user error, we lost some data this morning. Any changes made to yearbooks this morning between 2am and 10.45am will have been lost. We apologies for the obvious inconvenience caused and will keep you informed as this progresses.
No data entered before 2am this morning should have been affected. However, all data entered after [...]

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Now we can visit you too!

by jake ~ February 5th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve been trialling for a while now the concept of visiting schools (and other groups) around the country and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Our customers (and potential customers) really value being able to ask questions to us face-to-face, as well as flicking through our yearbooks and getting a feel for them in their [...]

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AllYearbooks provide “a professional and personal service”

by jake ~ January 13th, 2010. Filed under: Testimonials.

A testimonial hot-off-the-press from a yearbook we’ve just finished for a group of engineers studying at Imperial College in London:
“I have been nothing but impressed by the service offered by AllYearbooks. AllYearbooks offer a professional and personal service that has ultimately lead to a high quaility yearbook. The online service allows for [...]

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Christmas Day Yearbooks

by jake ~ December 26th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

Christmas Day. A day to open copious presents, eat masses of food and watch The Queen on TV. And, it would appear, to work on your yearbooks. Editors from the following schools were dedicated enough to their yearbooks to login yesterday, on Christmas Day:

Cathkin High School
High School For Girls Gloucester
Haverstock Class of ‘05
St.Bartholomews
The Woodroffe school
Harlaw [...]

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Be aware of yearbooks that fall apart

by jake ~ November 25th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

During a visit to a customer this week we were horrified to hear that there’s a big yearbook company out there – one of our main competitors – trying to sell yearbooks which easily fall apart. As our customer rightly said, the yearbooks were “completely crap”.
We’ve spent a lot of time and research making our [...]

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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, [...]