Monday, August 30, 2010

The gang at the YOC!

Look at these smiling faces at the Yearbook Order Center!  They are revved up and ready to go!

And Alder Creek Middle School in Truckee has reported that they've already sold more than 100 copies so far, so the race is on!

Hot new features for eDesign!

The Yearbook Wrangler and HJ Yearbooks are happy to announce the release of several new eDesign features!

Smart Template: Now users that drop a new template will be asked if they’d like Smart Template to automatically replace the content. More info in the eDesign Help section, for current HJ Yearbook clients.

Custom Endsheets: Schools that have requested custom endsheets from their plant will have access to an additional spread at the beginning and end of the ladder for online endsheet creation.

Facebook Sneak Peek: We received great feedback during the initial trials for Sneak Peek, and have incorporated it into the final version. Sneak Peek is available for customer books! Yay!

Pop-in Fun Shapes: We are testing a cool new concept in 2011 books with new Fun Shapes. These can be found under Pop-ins > Fun Shapes. Try them out, and check the eDesign Help for a Cool Tips topic with ideas on how these can be used in your layouts.

Yearbooks on Ancestry.com

If you ever doubted that yearbooks are valuable historical documents, then check out Ancestry.com.  This genealogy website has an entire section dedicated to yearbooks, with some 60 million records covering from 1875 to 1988.


Click on the yearbook section at Ancestry.com to access the site's yearbook search engine, to read real-life stories of people's research into their pasts via yearbooks, and to see celebrity yearbook photos.  There's also a collection of funny nicknames gleaned from yearbooks, and links to other yearbook-related articles and more.  There's even a form if you're interested in submitting your own yearbooks for Ancestry.com's database.