Category: Fun
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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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Our new updated chat system
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…
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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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2008-2009 yearbook website launched!!!
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…
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Ready for 2007-2008 Yearbooks
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,…
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Editor-Only & Primary School Yearbooks
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…
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