If you’re an avid and observant user of our awesome online service, you may notice bump-up in speed and reliability of our website from today onwards. We’ve migrated to some lovely new hardware with more speed, memory and overall grunt — meaning faster and easier creation of your yearbook! We’ve also brought online further servers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, I’m finally doing a monster chore that I’ve been putting off and putting off – updating the main ‘brochureware’ website with all the latest text and images. The text and images are already written and taken – they’ve all been used in our brilliant information packs. The problem is there’s just been soooo much [...]
Lately, I’ve had various frustrations with Drupal which have moved me away from using it for various things. I’d like to go through where I’ve moved away from Drupal, why I’ve made those changes, and my future Drupal decisions. WordPress rather than Drupal blog To begin with, this blog is now on WordPress rather than [...]
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: $ [...]
Just a quick one, it looks like once Jake and I sort out the remaining bug fixes and an assortment of data processing jobs, we will be launching the new 2009 website! Some time by the end of today… The great thing is that our lovely customers will now be able to sign up for [...]