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jake

Web-based yearbook systems: AllYearbooks vs. the competition

by jake ~ October 9th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News.

Hmm… we’ve spent a bit of time recently testing our online yearbook system versus ‘similar’ systems offered by our primary competitors here in the UK. The results were… umm… interesting. In brief: we believe that we are far, far, far and away the best. [1] It would probably be unfair to name names. But we’ve [...]

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New feature: better photo browsing

by jake ~ October 9th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

I’ve just launched a new feature to enable members of a yearbook to more easily browse through photos uploaded by other members. On each member’s yearbook entry page there’s now a list of all photos they’ve uploaded. Nice and simple.

david

New resources for editors

by david ~ September 24th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

From having worked a fair bit – mostly in moments between manic emailing, yearbook activity and big session stamp-licking – on making, amongst other things, PowerPoint look pretty (not an easy task, ladies and gentlemen), it’s nice to finally see the products up and available online. For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, [...]

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Online polls (awards) for members to vote on

by jake ~ November 21st, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

We’ve just added a new feature to allow yearbooks to have polls (awards) for members to vote on. As always, we listen closely to our customers’ desires and act accordingly. Each yearbook can have unlimited polls for members to vote on. For example, a question may be ‘Most likely to be Prime Minister’ or ‘Most [...]

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New Feature – Yearbook Photo Gallery

by jake ~ September 1st, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

Whilst schools, colleges and universities have been sleeping over the summer, we’ve been super-busy tweaking our online yearbook system to make it the best available, anywhere… ever! Our latest new feature is a photo gallery for every yearbook. Members of a yearbook can simply upload a photo and its added to the yearbook home page. [...]

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New Feature – Suggest Answers To A Friend

by jake ~ July 25th, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

We’ve just launched yet-another-new-feature to make yearbook making even more fun – suggesting answers. Anyone in a yearbook can suggest answers for other members in the yearbook, just as easily as they can write their own answers. It works like this: Liz suggests a biography for Steve Steve edits his yearbook entry and is notified [...]

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New Feature – Search

by jake ~ July 18th, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

We’ve just launched a new search engine for our site, making it easier for you to find people, yearbooks and other content. Just type your keywords in the search box at the top right of the page and browse through the results. We also take pride in having an extremely easy website for search engines [...]

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Live Usability Testing

by jake ~ July 12th, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

We’re currently carrying out extensive usability testing to help improve our yearbook service. But we’d like as much of your feedback as possible too. If you think anything on the site can be done better; that you find something confusing; that something doesn’t quite work as expected, then let us know. You may find links, [...]

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New Feature – Preview All Pages as Images

by jake ~ July 10th, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

This week sees yet another new feature – the ability to preview all pages within a book as images (jpg files), saving hefty PDF downloads. Many more features are planned to make our yearbook service better and better this summer. As always, editors and members of a yearbook have various privacy options to choose from [...]

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New Features & Usability Improvements

by jake ~ July 4th, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

Following feedback from our clients so far, we’ve just launched a load of new features and usability improvements, including: Ability to add an unlimited number of custom questions to each yearbook, with various options as to how to display them, how many words per question etc Big improvements to the usability of the setion editing [...]