Category: Technology
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Preparing for the 2013 busy season
Preparing for the 2013 busy season At the end of August 2012, and after nearly two years of development, we launched our new and exciting yearbook creation system along with a raft of changes to our product and pricing. Feedback on these changes has been overhwelmingly positive, however there have…
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Towards real-time yearbooks
We’ve been working hard for well over a year here at AllYearbooks on our new yearbook-creation system, which will completely replace our current site over the coming months. We’ve been keeping it pretty much secret until now but are bursting with excitement to take a few minutes to let you…
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New bad-ass servers!
If you’re an avid and observant user of our awesome online service, you may notice bump-up in speed and reliability of our website from today onwards. We’ve migrated to some lovely new hardware with more speed, memory and overall grunt — meaning faster and easier creation of your yearbook! We’ve…
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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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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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Automated backups
After far too much time and effort, Jake and I have managed to make an automated backup system for the AllYearbooks office. Our main network shared drive will (hopefully) now be backed up on a daily basis to two portable 2.5in SATA hard drives, both which will be stored off-site.…
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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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Updating the AllYearbooks website
Well, I’m finally doing a monster chore that I’ve been putting off and putting off – updating the main ‘brochureware’ website with all the latest text and images. The text and images are already written and taken – they’ve all been used in our brilliant information packs. The problem is…
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Using less Drupal
Lately, I’ve had various frustrations with Drupal which have moved me away from using it for various things. I’d like to go through where I’ve moved away from Drupal, why I’ve made those changes, and my future Drupal decisions. WordPress rather than Drupal blog To begin with, this blog is…
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