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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 [...]

david

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 [...]

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 [...]

jake

2008-2009 yearbook website launched!!!

by jake ~ September 10th, 2008. Filed under: News, Technology.

Woo… we’re there! After lots of debugging, last minute error catching, tweaks, geeky Linux commands and general mayhem, we’ve finally launched the new website At around 13:37 this afternoon with only about 2 minutes of down time. Unfortunately there was no big red button to press, but the ‘launch sequence’ was something like this: $ [...]

jake

Ready for 2007-2008 Yearbooks

by jake ~ September 9th, 2007. Filed under: News.

Just a quick hello to say yes, we are still here, and that we’re now ready to make yearbooks for the 2007-2008 academic year (though we still have 2 or 3 stragglers from the previous year yet to complete their yearbooks!). We’ve been extremely busy in the last academic year, making yearbooks for over 60 [...]

jake

Editor-Only & Primary School Yearbooks

by jake ~ September 20th, 2006. Filed under: News.

We’ve just added one of our most requested features – the ability for yearbook editors to add new members, rather than the members having to register an account and join the yearbook themselves. This also makes it possible for a teacher or student to be the only person who uses the online service if they [...]

jake

Our Customers Love Us!

by jake ~ September 7th, 2006. Filed under: News.

Our unique yearbook system is amazing – and now its not just us saying that. For the 2005-2006 academic year our red-hot yearbook system was only just ready in time to catch a few stragglers in May. We nervously awaited all kinds of bugs and problems but came through with great results, far surpassing our [...]

jake

Yearbook Prices Slashed

by jake ~ July 25th, 2006. Filed under: News.

We’ve slashed our prices on all paperback and hardback yearbooks, bringing our already low prices to absolutely amazing market-beating prices. Check them out for yourself to see just how cheaply you can get a quality yearbook now. We’ve an option for every budget – making yearbooks truly affordable for all. Prices go as low as [...]

jake

Yearbooks in under a month!

by jake ~ June 20th, 2006. Filed under: News.

The Beaminster and Colfox sixth form contacted AllYearbooks.co.uk on Friday 19th May, ready to start their yearbook with us from scratch… on Wednesday 14th June we delivered the books to their school, beating their deadline of 28th June by two weeks! That’s just 25 days for a yearbook. And with even more improvements to our [...]

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AllYearbooks.co.uk Founder Gets Married!

by jake ~ June 14th, 2006. Filed under: News.

The founder of AllYearbooks.co.uk, Jake Gordon, last week married his fianceé Gemma Edwards on Saturday 3rd June. The wedding took place druing gorgeous weather in rural Wales and was an amazing success. The venue for the wedding was a former slate quarry which now hosts a unique tipi village and barn. So not only does [...]