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eddz

A warm welcome and some new features!

by eddz ~ March 4th, 2011. Filed under: Around the Office, Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

We’d like to start this blog post by welcoming the new yearbook coordinators, Harry and Becky, who bring their skills and experience to our team! They’ve joined us temporarily to help us during the busy season for yearbooks, which is just kicking off. As always, we’ve been working hard to create new features that make [...]

jamey

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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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 [...]

jamey

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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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 [...]

david

Yearbook, year book, year books, yearbooks – the linguistic solution

by david ~ February 1st, 2009. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News.

Since starting out working for AllYearbooks, I’ve been surprised by some of the linguistic spin that the English are prepared to put on the word yearbook. Thankfully, we don’t see emails with a horrifying hyphen: year-book or year-books. But, we do see a LOT of emails asking about a year book or year books, and [...]

jamey

Site Development – Part 2: Yearbook PDFs

by jamey ~ December 12th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Technology.

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 [...]

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Site Development – Part 1: The live chat

by david ~ December 12th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

It’s site development season! The last few months in Jake and Jamey’s room haven’t just been about increasing monitor volume. While Nic and I keep on top of everyone’s needs, they’ve been programming like demons. So what’s new? There’s even better security and backups for the online information and enough server capacity to support all [...]