Category: How To…
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CV Skills – How to make your yearbook work for you
Just this morning I was chatting to a student who had started a project with an ulterior motive in mind. She wasn’t making it purely for the memories (it’s a nice little bonus though) but as a means to fulfilling an academic project 🙂 Courses such as the AQA Baccalaureate include…
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The Yearbook Checklist
A good plan can be a real lifesaver when it comes to balancing commitments in your final year; between mocks, exams, college/uni applications (not to mention the all important prom preparations), you’ll have a fair amount on your plate! We want to make yearbooking as straight forward as possible which…
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Creating beautiful pages
Lee, our resident designer, has written a guide to help you craft unique and beautiful pages using the wide range of tools that our system offers. The tutorial includes advice for how to customise your background, choosing a complementary colour palette, and picking fonts best suited to the style you…
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Motivate and Inspire: Promoting your project and getting people involved…
How to get people active in their book is something that comes up time and time again. People are keen to have the finished product but often less enthusiastic or forgetful when it comes to doing their bit! We’ve been working hard to find ways to engage with your members…
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Wondering where to start?
Having trouble getting started? No problem – have a look at our support site which is full of useful tips, videos and explanations ranging from profile question ideas, to detailed guides on how to use our system.
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A warm welcome and some new features!
We’d like to start this blog post by welcoming the new yearbook coordinators, Harry and Becky, who bring their skills and experience to our team! They’ve joined us temporarily to help us during the busy season for yearbooks, which is just kicking off. As always, we’ve been working hard to…
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Proofing your yearbook
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…
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Ideas for Custom Yearbook Pages
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…
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Making Your Awards a Success
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 awards work is to be sure it’s inclusive and the questions are…
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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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