Category: New Features
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Custom backgrounds, messages/signature pages and more (oh my!)
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 –…
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It’s busy season – and next year
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…
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Screencast: overhauled ‘Members’ area
[hana-flv-player video=’/wp-content/uploads/members2.flv’ width=’408′ height=’424′ autoload=’false’ splashimage=’/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/members.jpg’ srt=0 /] 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…
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Screencast: uploading many photos at once
[hana-flv-player video=’/wp-content/uploads/photo-uploads.flv’ width=’408′ height=’392′ autoload=’false’ splashimage=’/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/uploads.jpg’ srt=’0′ /] 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…
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Screencast: photo management improvements
[hana-flv-player video=’/wp-content/uploads/photo-management.flv’ width=’408′ height=’392′ autoload=’false’ splashimage=’/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/photos.jpg’ srt=’0′ /] 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…
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Yearbook usability improvements
After launching the new features last Friday, Jake has been busy carrying out impromptu usability tests with people who could be potential AllYearbooks customers. So far, the results have been interesting! Lots of the copy wording on the main website and yearbooks area is being updated to make it more…
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Yearbook, year book, year books, yearbooks – the linguistic solution
Since starting out working for AllYearbooks, I’ve been surprised by some of the linguistic spin that the English are prepared to put on the word yearbook. Thankfully, we don’t see emails with a horrifying hyphen: year-book or year-books. But, we do see a LOT of emails asking about a year…
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Site Development – Part 2: Yearbook PDFs
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…
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Site Development – Part 1: The live chat
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…
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Web-based yearbook systems: AllYearbooks vs. the competition
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…
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