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jake

Proofing your yearbook

by jake ~ May 3rd, 2010. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

In the past, and with many of our competitors, you’d wait months from when you think your yearbook is complete until you get it delivered, partly because of a long and laborious proofing process. Not with us. With our advanced online system, we put you in control of the whole proofing process. No more waiting [...]

david

Ideas for Custom Yearbook Pages

by david ~ November 17th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]

david

Making Your Voting Polls a Success

by david ~ November 13th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]

jamey

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 [...]

jamey

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 [...]

nic

Designing your own pages

by nic ~ February 10th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]

david

Promoting yearbook post…

by david ~ February 9th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]

nic

Yearbook Covers

by nic ~ February 2nd, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]

david

Yearbook committees – yay or ney?

by david ~ January 30th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

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 [...]