Category: Around the Office
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Worst yearbook ever?
Follow these 5 top tips to ensure your yearbook isn’t the “Worst yearbook ever”: allow us to make up to 10 collage pages for you… they look lovely! use our online system and allow members to upload their own photos rather than using low-resolution ones taken by the school photographer…
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The Guardian talks yearbooks
A lovely article just came out in The Guardian talking about how yearbooks are really taking off now here in the UK. We were featured heavily in the article, including quotes I made – all very exciting 😀 We can’t wait to see the article in the printed copy of…
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Uploading masses of photos into your online yearbooks
You can upload two types of photos into your yearbooks: profile photos and collage photos. Profile photos are used on your individual profile pages (or at least your space on that page if more than one person per page), and collage photos are uploaded into photo folders such as “Summer…
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Laminated hardback yearbooks are *really* popular :)
After sending 10 yearbooks to print this morning I was amazed by the number of them that were hardback rather than paperback, so I did a bit of number crunching. It turns out that this academic year we’ve seen a marked change in the percentage of our customers going for…
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Welcome back from holidays!
Easter holidays are now over, and it’s back to school again for most of our customers. We’ve been busy working with you on your yearbooks over the Easter break, and now we’re really ramping up the number of yearbooks we’re sending to print each week. If you haven’t already, figure…
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Site downtime
We apologise for the downtime the site has experienced yesterday (1 hour) and today (5 hours). The downtime was caused primarily by a corrupt table in the database (which was fixed without damage) which caused a domino effect of other problems. We believe we’ve now addressed the issues but we’re…
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Mr Yearbook Man
The world needs a new hero. The world needs… Mr Yearbook Man! Coming soon to a screen near you.
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Your data is safe with us
Yesterday at 10.40am, Jamey, my fellow web developer, accidentally deleted out the entire database holding all our yearbooks online – photos, entries, pages, users… everything. Suddenly anyone trying to access the website would have seen a blank error page, not knowing the full extent of the problem. I found out…
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Data loss
Due to user error, we lost some data this morning. Any changes made to yearbooks this morning between 2am and 10.45am will have been lost. We apologies for the obvious inconvenience caused and will keep you informed as this progresses. No data entered before 2am this morning should have been…
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Now we can visit you too!
We’ve been trialling for a while now the concept of visiting schools (and other groups) around the country and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Our customers (and potential customers) really value being able to ask questions to us face-to-face, as well as flicking through our yearbooks and getting a…
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