Custom pages are such an amazing way of making your yearbook more exciting and more personal. Making them on your own software and uploading to the All pages section is easy – figuring out what to put in is often less easy.
For tips on making and uploading, scroll back and you’ll find Nic’s older post [...]
Here’s something we haven’t covered yet. Nicola actually drafted this article, for our forthcoming Knowledge and Yearbook Help system, but I’ve trimmed it up for here as so many people are interested!
The big thing for making your polls work is to be sure it’s inclusive and the questions are interesting for everyone in the year.
You [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
We’ve had some people in the last few weeks talking about promoting the yearbook. Not surprising, because we’re heading for times when there’ll be rushing and shouting and deposits… and then it’s yearbook publishing time – oh no!
A great way to start is collecting deposits – it makes people want to try it out and [...]
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 [...]
Hello, and welcome to radio yearbook! Or something.
We had an email today asking about getting a yearbook committee together, and it brings up the question – how essential is the traditional yearbook committee?
With our online yearbook creation system to gather information and create your member pages, a lot of the work is already done! We [...]
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 [...]