Download New Christmas Content
Posted by: In: Backgrounds, Downloads, Yearbook Samples, Yearbooks Desktop 10 Dec 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , , , , ,

One of the great new features in this year’s edition of Yearbooks is the ability to download new packages of content from this website.  Every month we will be releasing new graphics that can be quickly imported into Yearbooks to add new clip-art, backgrounds, templates and cover images.   All of these images are provided for free to registered users, and are completely optional.  You can pick and choose the packages you wish to download and import, whether it is one package or all of them.

This month’s package contains, you guessed it, Christmas images!  This package includes 16 new clipart images, as well as 20 new backgrounds!  Here is a brief sample of what is included in this package.   You can download the package below.

Christmas Content Preview

Download “Christmas Package” Christmas.ybk – Downloaded 1139 times – 13 MB

Watch this site for additional content for your Yearbook!  Leave us a comment if you have any questions or suggestions on new graphics for Yearbooks.

Download Halloween Clipart and Nature Themed Backgrounds
Posted by: In: Backgrounds, Downloads, Yearbook Samples, Yearbooks Desktop 18 Oct 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , , , , , ,

One of the great new features in this year’s edition of Yearbooks is the ability to download new packages of content from this website.  Every month we will be releasing new graphics that can be quickly imported into Yearbooks to add new clip-art, backgrounds, templates and cover images.   All of these images are provided for free to registered users, and are completely optional.  You can pick and choose the packages you wish to download and import, whether it is one package or all of them.   We are also producing a tutorial video in which Dave will demonstrate how to download, import and use these images in your Yearbook.

Our first download package features new Clip-art images with a Halloween theme!   Here is a brief sample of what is included in this package.   You can download the package below.

Halloween Clip-art Package #1

Halloween Clip-art Package #1

Download “Halloween Clipart Package #1” PKG_Halloween.ybk – Downloaded 737 times – 693 KB

Our second package contains some of the classic backgrounds that have been featured in Yearbooks over the past ten years, specifically those with a Nature Theme.  Again here is a sample of the contents, you can download the packages below.

Nature Backgrounds Package #1

Nature Backgrounds Package #1

 

Download “Nature Themed Backgrounds Package #1” PKG_Nature.ybk – Downloaded 1142 times – 23 MB

 

Watch this site for additional content for your Yearbook!  Leave us a comment if you have any questions or suggestions on new graphics for Yearbooks.

 

 

Yearbook Flashback – Looking Back at 100 Years of SAIT Polytechnic
Posted by: In: Flashback, Yearbook Photos, Yearbook Samples 20 Sep 2013 Comments: 0 Tags: , , , ,

This week’s Yearbook Flashback features Canada’s oldest technical college, SAIT Polytechnic, or Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Established in 1916 in Calgary, Alberta, SAIT was also Canada’s first publicly funded technical institute and has won dozens of internationally recognized awards for it’s commitment to higher education standards.  With over 73,000 students registered in 2013, producing a Yearbook can be a massive undertaking, in terms of financial, technological and in human resources.

Flashback to SAIT Yearbook from 1946

SAIT Yearbook from 1946 shows an early version of Alberta’s provincial flag.

In recent years, they have created a fantastic online library to promote and preserve their school memories.   Available on the SAIT archive website are digitally preserved copies of their annual Yearbook for public viewing.  Their first Yearbook was published in 1918, and currently over 50 editions dating back to that first edition can be viewed online, with more Yearbooks being added as they are rediscovered.  Some of the editions are over 300 pages in size!  One can easily imagine that this book could be larger than some of the engineering textbooks that the students read.  In addition to the Yearbook archive, one can also view over 20,000 historic photographs from the campus and of the city of Calgary.

If you are a Yearbook designer or adviser, or are seeking out new ideas to incorporate into your Yearbook project, then archives like these are a great source for inspiration.  We highly recommend that you take some time to browse books from years past, and take screen shots or printout any pages or designs that catch your eye.  Watch this blog for more flashbacks and examples of Yearbooks from our distant and recent past.

The trend in archiving Yearbooks is quite popular at the college level, it’s hoped that more and more high schools can find the time and budget to start preserving their Yearbooks in a digital form online.  Our Yearbooks Desktop software creates a high resolution, digital PDF output of your Yearbook, which is the perfect format for archiving online.