yearbook companies

is this company good, http://www.allyearbooks.co.uk/school at producing yearbooks. It seems good, as anyone used it? and any other yearbook company recommendations?

Thanks,

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Reply 1

Wildebeest

My school are using www.meno-recollections.co.uk - apparently the online login system to upload files is very good.

Reply 2

thefish_uk

At my school we had one student who graphic designed the whole thing and sent it direct to a local printing company. All in all it ended up looking completely awesome and not at all tacky like some of these company-made ones seem to be. Doing it this way though the major difficulty was data collection - obviously you don't want to be typing the stuff off 200+ paper forms into the computer so we made our own website (which admittedly required some know-how).

It's a great way of doing things if you know what you're doing, but if you're not confident it's probably best to use a company!

Reply 3

pianofingers

Like thefish_uk, I'm making the yearbook myself on my mac, and then uploading the PDF to Lulu, an online print-on-demand publishing company, and the price shouldn't really exceed £10 per book, which is excellent, and also as it's print on demand, we won't have an excess inventory.

Reply 4

Sunnydazzleeyes

Our year book is £8 each
but i don't know what company

Reply 5

becky.fm

Ours is £10, and over 300 pages! :eek:

Reply 6

Beautiful_Plumage

Bexiness!

Ours is £10, and over 300 pages! :eek:

wah?!?! My yearbook was £20 and only 20 fllipping pages long! :eek:

what a rip-off it was, it was downright awful, the format was all mixed up e.g. the contents page was in the middle of the book etc... :frown:

Reply 7

becky.fm

Beautiful_Plumage

wah?!?! My yearbook was £20 and only 20 fllipping pages long! :eek:

what a rip-off it was, it was downright awful, the format was all mixed up e.g. the contents page was in the middle of the book etc... :frown:

Well, because there is over 300 people in my year, the majority of whom would want one, the price was really cheap! :biggrin:

I've haven't seen it all yet. I'm best looking forward to all the teachers awards: 'worst dressed' :rofl:

Apparently, when you see it all together, it looks amazing! :p:

Reply 8

Wildebeest

Listen to this for a fact - our upper sixth have to pay £24 for their yearbooks, and it is a private school! :eek:

Reply 9

becky.fm

Wildebeest

Listen to this for a fact - our upper sixth have to pay £24 for their yearbooks, and it is a private school! :eek:

That's nearly as much as my prom ticket! :s-smilie:

Reply 10

Dark and Lovely

we're using meno and its £15 each

Reply 11

SweetLikeChocolate

For our Yr 11 one, we used Rondale yearbooks, their website is www.schoolyearbooks.net it has 32 pages and cost about £15 i think.

Reply 12

NickiM

Wildebeest

My school are using www.meno-recollections.co.uk - apparently the online login system to upload files is very good.

Ours uses that too...but I don't know how good it is going to be.

Reply 13

Chezua

heheh, my school can't afford for yearbooks cos nobody would want to buy them at 15 quid (doh) so we decided to film and interview everyone and put it on DVD instead. actually i think it's way better than the traditional yearbook cos you get to see your mates 'animated'. also it's good fun, think about sneaking with a video cam and secretly videoing everyone *lmao*

Reply 14

[Vicki]

Me and my friends are making the year book
We dont know how much its going to cost at the moment but the company they went with last year only cost them £10 a year book
We are doing a DVD too hopefully of us all at our ball in may

Reply 15

Lykabelle

Yep my school is currently using allyearbooks. We're going to order about 250 books which will cost about £11 each. It's a good company because it's quite cheap however it does take ages to type up everyone's captions and upload their pictures if you decide that only a select few of you should do it. I'm involved in organising the yearbook because in my sixth form it's us head girl/boy/deputies doing it. Although it is a system where everyone in the yearbook has a username and password to log in so if you decide to do so, everyone has the chance to upload his/her own photo, type in their caption etc. and a few people can be editors to ensure everything is kept 'clean' :wink:

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They make good photo collage pages- all you have to do is send them the photos and tell them what kind of layout you'd like perhaps from the example yearbook that they send to you and the staff make the pages really quickly. We got the collage pages within an hour once we spoke to them on the phone. You can create your own custom pages perhaps on microsoft publisher and then convert it to PDF or let them convert it to PDF for you for the pages to go in the yearbook. It's pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Reply 16

Chezua

11 quid a book?!

and you guys are prepared to pay for em?

Reply 17

Lykabelle

yep i thought £11 was quite cheap actually considering most people pay about £15 for a yearbook. But I've heard my college wants to charge people £20 for a yearbook if they're not going to the leavers' dance (a yearbook is included in the price of our leavers' dance). Our yearbook is going to be 49 pages long.