Category: Around the Office
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New year, new yearbook!
It is the new year and now is a great time to get started on your yearbook, before revising for exams starts to take over. The more of your book you can get done now the easier the whole process will be. If you are not sure how you want…
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Christmas Day Yearbooks
Christmas Day. A day to open copious presents, eat masses of food and watch The Queen on TV. And, it would appear, to work on your yearbooks. Editors from the following schools were dedicated enough to their yearbooks to login yesterday, on Christmas Day: Cathkin High School High School For…
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Making babies, and affordable yearbooks
It’s our hundredth blog post! It’s also the week of the birth of Jake’s second baby, a wee lady-tike. Let’s dedicate this post to her. In response to his request for name suggestions I think she should be called Alice. May she tumble down many rabbit holes. However, I’m not…
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Be aware of yearbooks that fall apart
During a visit to a customer this week we were horrified to hear that there’s a big yearbook company out there – one of our main competitors – trying to sell yearbooks which easily fall apart. As our customer rightly said, the yearbooks were “completely crap”. We’ve spent a lot…
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Early-bird discounts extended – save up to 10%!
We’ve decided to extend our early bird discounts by a month. You now get 10% off your total order if you get a £200 deposit to us by end of November, or 5% off by end of December. We’ve done this to alleviate the frustration some students are finding in…
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How our online yearbook system works
There are now many companies offering online yearbook-creation systems. But they all work differently. I’ll try to explain how ours differs from the competition, and why we think ours is is the best. 1. Online DTP yearbook creation Most of the US yearbook publishers and a couple of UK companies…
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Windows 7 arrives!
We’ve just received our 6 copies of Windows 7 so that Jamey and I can finally upgrade from Windows XP, and Nic, David and Pratik can get off that blasted Vista. It all means we’ll be able to make your yearbooks that little bit easier 🙂 Edit (Jamey): I don’t…
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Talk on our AJAX yearbook system
On Wednesday night Jamey and I did a one hour talk at Refresh Cambridge on our use of an AJAX layer on top of AllYearbooks, our web-based yearbook creation system. It was rather technical but at the same time we could easily have talked for twice as long and still…
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Who to speak to about your yearbook
This year we decided that we’re growing so fast that it would be easier for our customers to – as much as possible – speak to just one of us, rather than whoever answers the phone first. We’ve made this really easy: Pratik will be helping with all Year 11 …
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Instant yearbook price quote
We love being transparent about our prices – and we’ve always put as much pricing information as possible on our website for anyone to see. Because the price per book changes as you change the number of copies and pages in your yearbook, we used to have a full grid…
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