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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 we [...]
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 mentioned [...]
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 hosts [...]
As David pointed out in the last blog post, we are currently under heavy development here at the AllYearbooks’ offices busy developing new and exciting features for the coming academic yearbooks. Apart from the chat system (which is already working) we’re well on the way to implementing a new way of generating the final PDF [...]