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New bad-ass servers!

by jamey ~ June 15th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office, News, Technology.

If you’re an avid and observant user of our awesome online service, you may notice bump-up in speed and reliability of our website from today onwards. We’ve migrated to some lovely new hardware with more speed, memory and overall grunt — meaning faster and easier creation of your yearbook! We’ve also brought online further servers [...]

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Custom backgrounds, messages/signature pages and more (oh my!)

by jamey ~ November 2nd, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Technology.

It’s been a fair while since I’d last put my proverbial pen to paper and so I’ve decided to tell you all about our latest enhancements to our site that are almost guaranteed to bring joy to your day. Firstly, we’ve reinstated in the much-needed messages and signatures pages – there are currently twenty to [...]

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Cambridge City Council: possibly the best in the West?

by jamey ~ April 9th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

Our newest recruit Ben, who has joined the ranks of our highly valued sales, design and administrative team, had the bright idea of calling up the council to recycle a boatload of cardboard boxes we had lying about the office. Huge monitors, new laptops, new people – these things all produce cardboard boxes! Amazingly, there [...]

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It’s busy season – and next year

by jamey ~ April 6th, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Technology.

It is currently our ‘very busy’ period in the AllYearbooks office; Nic and David’s workload has shot through the roof, there are over two hundred collage pages to create seemingly all the time, lots of deadlines for many of our customers’ yearbooks are coming up soon and monies are flying in like nobody’s business Normally [...]

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Screencast: overhauled ‘Members’ area

by jamey ~ March 4th, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

a three-minute screencast showcasing our overhauled ‘Members’ area within a yearbook (full-screen recommended) We just launched a completely overhauled ‘Members’ area within our yearbooks. Instead of the slow, long list of members that it used to be, the Members page is now based around a fully-featured search that allows you to quickly see, at a [...]

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Screencast: uploading many photos at once

by jamey ~ March 4th, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

A quick screencast showcasing our improved photo uploading system (full-screen recommended) To follow up from the previous blog post, this short screencast demonstrates how photo uploading works for our yearbooks. The much-demanded feature to be able to upload more than one photo at a time is here. In the future, we plan to add a [...]

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Screencast: photo management improvements

by jamey ~ March 4th, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

A quick screencast showcasing the photo management improvements on an example photo folder (full-screen recommended) Recently, we upgraded the photo management so that it’s now easier to use and work with. You can now navigate between photos in a fashion similar to websites like Facebook or Flickr; whilst viewing a photo, click on it (or [...]

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Our new updated chat system

by jamey ~ February 11th, 2009. Filed under: News, Technology.

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 [...]

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Yearbook usability improvements

by jamey ~ February 10th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office, Features and Ideas.

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 [...]

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Automated backups

by jamey ~ December 15th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office, Technology.

After far too much time and effort, Jake and I have managed to make an automated backup system for the AllYearbooks office. Our main network shared drive will (hopefully) now be backed up on a daily basis to two portable 2.5in SATA hard drives, both which will be stored off-site. Our main office server which [...]