Highly Recommended

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Yearbook Machine is used by the UK’s top schools and universities.

Using Yearbook Machine to create our college yearbook made the painful process of forcefully extracting fond memories from your peers actually enjoyable. With relatively little effort on either the students' or the editors' parts we created a truly unique book that people found difficult to stop complimenting us on.

The website's intuitive and interactive system made contributing as easy and satisfying as an hour's worth of Facebook stalking with the bonus of actual physical results. I grew up with a yearly yearbook, and the one created for us by the young and enthusiastic staff of Yearbook Machine is by far the best of them all.

My college had not been successful in producing a yearbook since 2004/5, and I needed to not only try something new but also motivate an entire year group of finalists who had seen nothing but failure in previous years. This year, over 80% of the third year participated in the creation of the yearbook, and they did this while studying for final exams. There is no way that this would have been achieved had it not been for the design of the Yearbook Machine website: the finalists loved exercising their banter in a silent library, stalking yearbook profiles during short breaks, and reminiscing with nostalgia during particularly long and depressing nights of revision.

As head of the Yearbook Committee, I also loved how easy it made my life - had I attempted to produce such a high quality yearbook without Yearbook Machine, I would have had to quit, return the following year, and fully devote those weeks to a project that still would not have looked so good.

When we decided to be editors for our yearbook, we were dreading the stress and time that it would take up over our exam period.

We needn't have worried: Yearbook Machine is incredible, it allowed us to get 300 people to make their profiles in a very short space of time, along with simple pages for making articles and anything else you would want. It was so simple, and the company were willing to adapt to our every need to make it perfect. We are all ecstatic with our shiny new hardback books, and everyone has said they will keep them forever.

I'm not entirely sure how it wound up this way, but in the weeks of our book’s production, Yearbook Machine became the most trending website on our school’s internet system, beating even Facebook and Wikipedia. The banter-fuelled success was most likely down to the functional website design; it was so easy to use that the majority of the leavers had too much to say as opposed to too little.

Compared to previous years, where there had been gaping holes as pages just weren't completed, the 2011 Yearbook was pulled together on time. Full credit to the production team at Yearbook Machine who anticipated every question before we had a chance to ask it. Forget hesitant expectations entirely – everyone was happy with the final result and every student joined in – leaving us with an end product to keep for the rest of our lives.

I have not had one negative piece of feedback from my year regarding their yearbook. Its professional look, easy-to-read layout and quality finish should make it something to treasure in the years to come. To create it, meanwhile, took surprisingly little effort because of the intuitive way Yearbook Machine has been set up.

At first, the package offered by Yearbook Machine seemed too good to be true. Eventually, however, their down-to-earth approach and willingness to help in any way they could put my mind at ease. This was topped off by a finished product that is incredible to look at, hilarious and touching to read and was so easy to create that it left me free to concentrate on my final end-of-year exams.

Originally when trying to find a yearbook designer I searched the internet, which I soon realised was such a waste of time when I found Yearbook Machine. Not only were the team really helpful when I had any questions, in both their response time and answers, but making the yearbook was just such an easy process. It was just as described - like a Facebook page, and everything was made a lot easier by the fact is was online.

At first I thought the price was a bit high, but this changed when I saw the end result - it was worth every penny! The paperback version is really nice, and we had such positive feedback from the year. It looks professional and sophisticated. Even people from outside the school who have seen the yearbook are so impressed with it!

Yearbook Machine made the process of creating our yearbook both more straightforward and more enjoyable. The website was easy to use and the support we received was constructive and useful. The entire year group felt that the appearance of the final product was very impressive and everyone was delighted with the quality of the yearbook.

We didn't think about producing yearbooks until late into our final year so we thought finding a company that would make the process as simple as possible while still producing the results we wanted was going to be an impossibility. But Yearbook Machine proved us wrong. The online site was well laid out and each student was given control of their own personal page and username. This meant the whole year were excited about the project - whilst making our jobs as organisers much easier! As our school's yearbook committee we have all received many compliments about how lovely the final books looked and as much as we'd love to take credit for them it was entirely down to Yearbook Machine!

Our yearbook committee had researched several yearbook companies to find the perfect one for our year, but the interactive and online creative system of the Yearbook Machine stood out most for us. The system was very easy to use and also very straightforward, so it really made the whole process fun and exciting! As one of the organisers of our yearbook, I found the 'progress check' very helpful, as I was able to see what stage everyone was at and could send personal reminders to make sure they met the deadline. We also had a lot of fun picking the templates we could use for each page, as there was a wide range to choose from. All the effort put in creating the yearbook has certainly been worthwhile, and extremely rewarding. We were all impressed with our yearbooks, and can look back fondly on all of our memories, favourite quotes and 'Most likely..' awards. Thank you for all your help, and for putting up with our numerous phonecalls!

I didn't have any expectations before starting as it was our school’s first yearbook and we were interested to see how it would go.

Luckily, we weren't dissapointed. Working with Yearbook Machine has been a great experience. We were never let down and always kept good communication. The team has been amazingly helpful, especially when we were close to the deadline. The system itself is ingenious, enhanced with many options to make your yearbook as personalised as possible. Despite starting late, we managed to finish everything on time and the books were of exceptional quality. No student had any complaints about what they received, and the few extras were sold out as soon as the yearbooks were delivered. Elegant, colourful, entertaining- definitely a service Concord College will use in the future.

Yearbook Machine provide beautifully designed yearbooks with a range of options at affordable prices. The service was exceptional -any requests or problems were dealt with quickly and with a friendly manner. Making the yearbook was easy and the online system was clearly made to make the life of the editor a little easier - in fact it was so good that we had more peopl than we thought sign up. I would definitely recommend using Yearbook Machine and would use them again myself.

From the beginning to the end of the process of organising our college yearbook, the system of creating yearbooks at Yearbook Machine made our life as editors much easier. After previous experience of one of us editing our school yearbook, we expected a lot of work, but Yearbook Machine’s simple and effective editing method enabled us to engage our year in the process more fully and make it fun as opposed to a chore. Once our year had completed their yearbook profiles, uploaded any photos and voted in any polls they wanted to be featured in the many included pages offered, Yearbook Machine did the hard work. The finished product was creative yet professional looking, and we were very impressed with the quality of service we received throughout the process; no problem was too big or too small for Yearbook Machine. In addition to this, the price was by far the most competitive we saw on the current yearbook market. Most importantly, the rest of our year were extremely pleased with their yearbook, and all remarked on how fantastic it looked and that it would be a wonderful keepsake of our time at university. Thank you Yearbook Machine!

Having Yearbook Machine design our yearbook was excellent – we were still able to make our own decisions about the style, layout and content, yet didn’t have to worry about creating a professional end product ourselves. The website makes everything so easy to do, such as making photo collages and voting on the online polls, and the whole year enjoyed logging on to fill out their profiles and add comments. Our year is definitely the first in our school to have a modern and stylish yearbook, all thanks to Yearbook Machine!

Yearbook Machine has been a great system for creating our Leavers’ Yearbook. Rather than having to write a whole page about yourself, which many of us found a bit cringy in our sixth form yearbooks, you can write about your friends. This gets people reminiscing about their time at uni, writing lots on each other's pages, and leads to a great finished product which will serve as a fantastic memento. The product also looks great, especially with the leather bound effect.

I found the company's staff incredibly helpful, in tailoring each yearbook to exactly how you want it to appear. No detail was found too minor to change at the last minute, which meant that every aspect of it has been done perfectly.