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A new academic year(book)

by jake ~ September 9th, 2011. Filed under: News.

Hello, and welcome to a new academic year! We’re very excited this year about a number of things we’re working on at AllYearbooks HQ and we’re absolutely thrilled about the amazing feedback we received from so many customers in the year just gone. We delivered a record number of yearbooks across the UK over the [...]

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Graphical background chooser

by jake ~ July 14th, 2011. Filed under: Around the Office.

Following popular demand for this feature, we’ve finally added a graphical way for you to pick a background for pages in your yearbook. Enjoy

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It’s yearbook season!

by jake ~ May 12th, 2011. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’re now well and truly into yearbook season now here at AllYearbooks HQ. This month we’re on target for sending well over 100 different yearbook titles to be printed, with over 1,500 people logging in to the website every day! As always, we’re receiving some fantastic feedback from customer who’ve received their yearbooks, as well [...]

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Easter holidays

by jake ~ April 12th, 2011. Filed under: Around the Office.

It’s holiday time! For you, that is – and also for us in a way as well. The Easter holiday gives the AllYearbooks team a chance to have a slight breather as our workload decrease a smidgen. Last week saw an absolutely huge amount of artwork being submitted for us to make, and I’m happy [...]

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Race conditions and caching variables

by jake ~ March 31st, 2011. Filed under: Drupal.

I would like to claim an utter hatred of race conditions. This is where code is written in such a way that it doesn’t fully consider the possibility of another thread (e.g. another website hit) or threads occurring concurrently. Consider the following which has been increasingly frustrating me recently: Drupal stores variables in the ‘variables’ [...]

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Mr Yearbookman saves the day

by jake ~ February 7th, 2011. Filed under: Around the Office.

Wanna see our managing director…. errr…. I mean Mr Yearbookman save the day (in a yearbook related way, of course)? Watch away…

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Importing Facebook photos into your yearbook

by jake ~ December 6th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve just launched a really, really cool feature: importing photos you’re tagged in on Facebook into your yearbook! No more finding photos on Facebook, right clicking, saving to your computer then re-uploading them to AllYearbooks. When in a photo folder you simply click the ‘F import’ button and you’re whisked away to a page on [...]

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Video: types of yearbooks

by jake ~ October 14th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

Want to know the difference between the four types of yearbooks we offer? Well, now you can find out… in full glorious 720p high-definition video! Lots more yearbook videos to come in the weeks ahead Let us know if there’s anything particular that you’d like to see in one of them.

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More online yearbook system awesomeness

by jake ~ October 14th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

Another week, another load of improvements to our quite formidable online yearbook system. Today we’re launching a new guided experience for editors just setting up their yearbooks, along with the option of opting out of things such as online profiles, uploading photos and voting in awards.

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Amazing new yearbook system

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

We quietly launched our new online yearbook system last week and the response so far has been amazing. New and previous customers alike have been commenting on how user-friendly and intuitive it is, a big step up from our previous design that served us well for around 4 years. If you haven’t got started with [...]