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New year, new yearbook!

by nic ~ January 6th, 2010. Filed under: Around the Office.

It is the new year and now is a great time to get started on your yearbook, before revising for exams starts to take over. The more of your book you can get done now the easier the whole process will be.
If you are not sure how you want your book to look yet, you [...]

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Google error!

by nic ~ February 24th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

The AllYearbooks offices have been a bit quiet this morning, Gmail is not a happy bunny and has been down most of the morning so one of our lines of contact with clients has been cut!  For a while it was fun watching the whole world twitter about the lack of Gmail but now I [...]

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Designing your own pages

by nic ~ February 10th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Almost everyone designs some of their own pages for their yearbook, whether it is an introduction page, a review of the school play or a photo collage.  There are a few things you might want to consider when you start thinking about page design, one of which is a tricky thing called bleed!
In design terms [...]

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Yearbook Covers

by nic ~ February 2nd, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Now the yearbooks are well on their way don’t forget about your cover.  David and I enjoy helping design covers, last year people came up with some fabulous covers and we’re waiting to see all your ideas for this year.
One of the things that can hold up making a cover is getting a good quality [...]

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Collages

by nic ~ January 29th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Now the exams are over,  everyone is getting down to some serious work on their yearbooks… especially uploading photos.  So here are some tips on making the most of our collages and remember we make 10 collage pages for you in the price of your yearbook:-)

Remember to upload the highest quality photos you have.  Some [...]

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Happy New Year!

by nic ~ January 2nd, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

It looks like lots of people’s new year resolution was to “set up a yearbook” yesterday we had several new clients setting up books:-)  Decembers quiet times in the office will be soon be over as the deposits start flowing in David and I will be getting creative with collages and front covers.
The new year [...]

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Happy holidays

by nic ~ December 24th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

Things have slowed down a little in the office over the past few days, not so many urgent emails to deal with but we can see that lots of you are getting busy with your books.  Even today on Christmas Eve lots of people are beavering away uploading photos and tweaking the profile page lay [...]

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Christmas in the office

by nic ~ December 18th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

Well I have had some Christmas lights up on my monitors for a couple of days now but today Christmas really arrived in the form of Ewa form our lovely printers.  She came bearing a huge pile of boxes tied up with ribbon and full of yummy goodies and Christmas crackers.
Whilst Jake and Gem took [...]

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Keeping the cost down

by nic ~ December 2nd, 2008. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

People are making real headway with their books at the moment and that includes finalizing the numbers and getting deposits in.  Which often leads to the question “how do we make our book cheaper?”  Well, we do our best to keep the prices down at this end, our returning customers know that we have hardly [...]

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Office life

by nic ~ October 1st, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

Today we have been catching up with clients and finding out how their books are coming along, it is always nice when people get organised early.  The weeks before results days are always hectic!
David and I have also been having a mammoth game of truth or dare jenga! So far no winners but I have [...]