YearbookLife is having a Best Yearbook Contest, which is available exclusively to current YearbookLife customers. YearbookLife is inviting all our schools to participate by submitting their 2010-2011 elementary, middle school and high school yearbooks to our Best Yearbook Contest.
YearbookLife is challenging your yearbook staff to design and create the “Best” school yearbook. The school yearbook will be judged on the following 4 criteria: originality of the yearbook cover design, yearbook creativity, yearbook theme consistency, and yearbook image quality.
So put your “Creative Cap” on. If you think your school has the “Best” yearbook, you can enter our contest for the chance to win some cash prizes for your school. ONLY Current Customers ELIGIBLE.
Prizes will include:
- Grand Prize – $1000 cash prize
- First Prize – $500 cash prize
- Second Prize – $250 cash prize
The Best Yearbook Contest runs from October 25, 2010 through March 25, 2010. YearbookLife will only be accepting school yearbooks submitted on or before March 25, 2011. Winners will be announced by June 1, 2011. For complete contest guidlines visit https://www.yearbooklife.com/best-yearbook-contest.
Please see the official rules for a complete list of rules and requirements.
As your yearbook staff comes together and starts to brainstorm about school yearbook ideas. There are a few things everyone should know about developing and creating a school yearbook.
Here are some yearbook terms that all yearbook staffers should know brought to you by YearbookLife:
Coverage: What you plan to cover in your yearbook such as events, topics, people, etc.
Yearbook Theme: The verbal and visual idea that ties this year’s book together
End sheet: The paper between the cover and the title page and also where your theme elements should appear after the cover
Title Page: The 1st page of your yearbook, where all the important information goes
Section Divider: The title pages for every section of your yearbook which is where your yearbook theme elements should be visible
Table of Contents: Most often found on end sheets or opening spreads, tells where to find the divider for each of your sections
Index: A list of names and organizations and what pages to find them on
Folio: The part of your spread that contains the page number, section, topic, and any accompanying graphics
Sidebar: Extra coverage on a spread, usually fun stuff like Q & A’s, polls, charts, quick quotes, etc.
Signature: Every 16 pages of your yearbook is a signature. It’s how the pages are actually printed before they are folded, sewn, and cut.
Flat: One side of a signature
Spread: 2 pages side-by-side in your yearbook
Gutter: The space in a 2-page spread where the pages are folded and things can get lost
White Space: The space on a spread where the background can be seen where there are no photos, copy, or graphics. White space is a yearbook design element that should be planned ahead of time.
Deadline: It is when your pages are due in order for the yearbooks to be printed on time.
We hope that this will help get everyone on your yearbook staff on the same page. Now it is time to start creating your school yearbook. Contact YearbookLife today if you need a quality yearbook publishing and printing company.
DVD Yearbooks
Since a yearbook and/or a DVD’s sole purpose is to let your students preserve memories for years to come, a DVD will be obsolete in only a few years. It’s virtually impossible to listen to an 8-Trak Tape, a vinyl record or cassette player today. Even the VHS recorder is almost entirely gone. There are new emerging technologies today that will replace the DVD in the same way. Your students will find it almost impossible to relive their most treasured memories in only a few years. What happens if it gets scratched and no longer works? A printed school yearbook has a shelf life of 120 years.
There are 1,080 hours in the school year and that doesn’t include extracurricular activities. There are also 50 plus classes in most schools today, giving you a potential of over 50,000 hours of content. You can only get 45 minutes to an hour on a DVD. How many events and how many children do you think will not be included on a DVD? Every single student and staff member can be found in the pages of a print school yearbook. Furthermore, when the vast majority of your parents don’t see their child on the DVD they won’t buy it again next year and many of them will want their money back this year.
Do you remember the fun of having all of your friends sign your yearbook with a message dedicated just for you? That is impossible with a DVD.
Online Yearbooks
An emerging trend is to publish an online yearbook. The idea is wonderful but the truth is if these companies go out of business, as so many online companies do, your child’s yearbook is gone forever. These companies must store the online yearbook on a server somewhere and most are using third party servers which require a monthly or annual fee. If these fees are not paid by the online yearbook company then all of the information housed on those servers, ie. your child’s yearbook, is permanently deleted. As we have seen over the last dozen years many online yearbook companies have closed their doors. Over the last two years more have closed their doors than in the previous five years combined. The simple fact that over 95% of businesses close within the first two years is scary enough.
The main reason you purchase the yearbook is for everlasting memories. No online yearbook company can guarantee you’ll be able to view your book next year much less five years from now.
The hard copy school yearbook is still the best choice for all the right reasons. Contact YearbookLife today to get more information on our yearbook specials.
SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom’s eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off.
YearbookLife is a publisher of military photo books for the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, National Guard, Army Reserve and Coast Guard. We make it easy to do a quality full-color military deployment book around your schedule and budget. From company to brigade, YearbookLife has a book plan that works for any size group.
You can now properly preserve your treasured military documents, photographs and mementoes within our military scrapbook albums. Albums for all branches of the U.S. military are in stock and ready for immediate delivery to you.
Whether you or a family member has just completed a tour of military service, we can create a custom military photo album or military scrapbook highlighting special events, and accomplishments during your military service. We can create a military photo album personalized any way that you like. Army photo albums, Marine Corps photo albums, Air Force photo albums, Navy Photo albums, and U.S. Coast Guard photo albums are all available at YearbookLife.
Military Photo Books are also great gifts for veterans, those on active duty or retiring from military service, and individuals who have recently enlisted. We can print yearbooks for the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and the Special Forces.
At YearbookLife, we have lots of experience in creating military yearbooks and we can help you get started with creating your military yearbook. Contact us today to get a free quote on your military yearbook.
