About
The only one of our addresses that names a thing rather than a kind of school
Yearbook Gallery is built and operated by Stanley Studios. Every other address in this family names an institution — a preschool, a high school, a university. This one names an object that all of them make, which is a different axis and it is why the site exists.
Why the artifact gets its own front door
Because the reader is defined by a job rather than by a building. A yearbook adviser in a middle school has far more in common with a yearbook adviser in a university than either has with the rest of their own institution: the same deadline, the same problem of getting material out of people, the same three weeks in which everything goes wrong.
And because the book raises one question none of the school sites raise. Everything else in this family is re-resolved when somebody looks. A book is the exception, and an exception that large deserves somewhere to be explained rather than a paragraph inside a page about something else.
The cost of the decision is that this site cannot state a single rule, because a yearbook inherits its school’s. We have chosen to make that the subject rather than to smooth it over, which is why the filters on the book page start with which band you are in.
Who builds it
Stanley Studios, which ran the studio side of school photography before it wrote software for it. Standing in the gymnasium first is why the operational parts arrived early: the absence list, the retake that has to supersede cleanly, the family that agreed in September and changed its mind in March.
It produced two decisions that look conservative. Correctness rules live in the storage layer rather than in screens, so a wall applies to a feature whether or not its author thought about it. And where a clever mechanism is optional, the dull one wins — a photograph reaches a student through a roster lookup, because the school already knows who was there.
The plain inventory
Software marketing describes planned work in the present tense and lets the reader sort it out. This is the whole picture, and every other page here agrees with it.
| Area | State | What that means exactly |
|---|---|---|
| Composing pages from the gated library | Working | What can be placed is already only what may be placed |
| A withdrawal reaching an unprinted book | Working | A rebuild excludes them; it is not a hunt through spreads |
| An index derived rather than typed | Working | One list rather than two that can disagree |
| Minor-held editor roles walled from outward operations | Working | Checked before the role's own permissions are considered |
| Printing, binding and shipping the book | Not us | A separate arrangement; leave it where it is |
| Anything purchasable -- copies, ads, a run | Early access | Live payment is not turned on; no checkout exists anywhere |
| Proving a face template was destroyed | Not finished | The cleanup raises a standing alarm rather than pretending |
No adoption figures, no school names, no testimonials and no page counts from books we have supposedly produced. A product at this stage that displays those has usually manufactured them.
Questions about us rather than the product
Do you replace our yearbook company?
Not the printing. Who prints, binds and ships the book is a separate arrangement and you can leave it exactly where it is. What changes is where the imagery lives and what governs it before a page is composed, which is the part most yearbook arrangements do not address at all.
Is this a separate product from the school platform?
No. It is one part of a platform a school runs on, with its own front door because an adviser is a specific reader with a specific year. The platform is at homeroom.software.
We are a university. Is this for us?
Yes, and the rules you are under are genuinely different from a school's -- no age floor, adult subjects deciding for themselves. That difference is written out on what it inherits rather than glossed, and the wider material for your institution is at university.gallery.
What does it cost a school?
The platform is free to the school. There is no per-student fee and no seat licence. The intended income is elsewhere and live payment is not turned on, so today the business model is described rather than running.
Who reads it when we get in touch?
A person at Stanley Studios. There is no form on this site because nothing here collects anything from you. What a first conversation looks like is on talk to us.