Yearbook Software Programs
Yearbook Software Programs Yearbooks are important memorabilia of every student's time in school
. As the years go by, one will enjoy thumbing through his or her yearbooks, remembering all the fantastic experiences that he or she had during their school years. Therefore, it is very important that a high school or middle school yearbook staff ensure that their annuals offer the best features that are available to them. With all of the different yearbook software programs, it can be difficult to determine which school yearbook company is the best selection. However, when one compares the individual companies side by side, the choice becomes clear. The following is a detailed review of four popular yearbook-making companies.
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Josten's
The Josten's school yearbook company produces a wide variety of school memorabilia products, including yearbooks, school rings, and graduation announcements. Their high school and middle school yearbooks are oftentimes sought out by groups who wish to purchase a traditional-style annual. Josten's yearbooks are highly customizable, giving the high school or middle school yearbook staff much freedom in designing their annual's layout. Students can choose a high-quality design with numerous pages or a shorter, less impressive design. Of course, should students wish to publish high-quality yearbooks, their school will pay a premium for these heightened features. Good-quality printing, vivid color, and numerous pages can be achieved only by paying an additional several hundred dollars. Some schools try to save money by downloading excess photos onto a CD, which is included in the yearbooks. However, these CD's show none of the creative design that a the pages of yearbooks feature, and are literally just a bunch of pictures that Josten's has downloaded onto a disc. In order to publish excellent yearbooks with the Josten's company, a school must spend thousands of dollars which could have been used to fund educational supplies and school functions.
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My Yearbook
My Yearbook's program is oftentimes used by students and alumni of a school in order to stay in touch with one another. On this website, students can chat with each other, meet new people who attend or had attended their school, and share precious photos and memories. The program has a very open layout, allowing its members to talk with each other in a very relaxed and comfortable manner. Many people enjoy the socialization opportunities that this website presents. However, this program does not produce true yearbooks either in physical or digital format. Many schools choose to use this program in the mistaken belief that it will provide an easy and inexpensive way for students to post their pictures and share common memories. However, this websites shares far more traits with a dating or socialization site than with actual yearbooks. Photos cannot be stored, adorned, or arranged in any specific manner using this program. While members of this website can share memories with each other through chatting and online dates, there is no compilation of these memories that former students can look back on and cherish. This practically defeats the purpose of a yearbook-making program.
Yearbook Interactive
This yearbook-formatting program enables users to create an entirely digital annual. Truly superior to traditional, paper-printed yearbooks, digital yearbooks open up multiple creative opportunities for a school's annual-making staff. Digital yearbooks are environmentally friendly, saving thousands of pounds of paper that would have been used to print the physical annuals. They allow for an unlimited number of projects and pages. The yearbook-making staff members can easily compile their work on the digital software, and the school can produce as many or as few of the CD's or DVD's that it requires. With the advent of digital yearbooks, schools are given a plethora of creative opportunities with which they can preserve their students' memories. Unfortunately, Yearbook-Interactive's digital formatting program is simply not up to par. While the world of digital yearbook-formatting offers innumerable distinct advantages over that of traditional yearbooks, this particular program makes it very difficult to utilize these benefits. This brand's software layout can be very confusing to new users. Especially if one is not familiar with computer formatting programs, it can be nearly impossible to comprehend the software's scattered links and arbitrary menus. Assistance from the company's customer service can be difficult to track down, and the website's Frequently Asked Questions section yields little to no help. Furthermore, licensing to use this program is very costly. Schools are required to pay thousands of dollars up front in order to use the software.
YearBookAlive
YearBookAlive is another digital yearbook-formatting program. This software offers all of the benefits that one would expect from an electronic yearbook-designing program. Users first build their project, adding photos, class and grade descriptions, comments from students, and depictions of special events. One can even add hours upon hours of video clips and music, creating a truly lifelike experience that will transport former students right back to their school days. YearBookAlive also offers fifteen different templates with which schools can design their projects. These templates present an easy, efficient way for a yearbook-making staff to design an aesthetically pleasing and coordinated project. After the project has been completed, one must simply copy the virtual annual onto a CD or DVD. Schools are able to make inexpensive copies of as many CD's or DVD's as they need. The layout of YearBookAlive confers innumerable distinct advantages upon its users. One can organize his or her project however he or she wishes: for instance, content can be sorted by class, teacher, event, season, or anything else that one can think of. The software can be accessed by either one administrator at a time or by multiple staff members, depending on whatever is best for the specific school. Users can easily compile and moderate photos, videos, music, and comments. Additionally, YearBookAlive offers a fantastic embedded chat feature. With this feature, students and former students who own a YearBookAlive annual can stay connected even years after they have left the school. Furthermore, YearBookAlive software is remarkably affordable. YearBookAlive charges a single fee for use of its entire program. An annual single user site lisence costs $499, and a multi-user site lisence costs $699. Adding 'School Chat' to the program costs just $100 more. After paying this one-time price, there are no more fees that the school has to pay. The school can make as many copies of the annual as it wishes and can then sell these copies to its students for whatever price it chooses to charge. The school keeps 100% of the profits that are generated by its sales.
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The Bottom Line
Yearbooks provide a fantastic opportunity to preserve a group's memories for years to come. Unfortunately, not all yearbook software programs provide schools with all the features they need to produce a spectacular annual. With its digital software format, its fundraising opportunities, and its ease of use, YearBookAlive is the best choice for high school and middle school yearbooks. This program will help schools create marvelous memories that will last for years to come.
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Yearbook Software Programs
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