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Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012
Building Apps for mobile devices becomes crucial for online success as an increasing number of web users shift to mobile devices and as the usage stats of mobile users has already passed web usage by desktop and lap-top users in many countries. Learn how to Build a Mobile App for iOS, Android and Windows...
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3
Customizing WordPress Child Theme In this tutorial we will create Custom Post Types and add variables and functionality to them. Also we will add some styling for more user-friendly display in the dashboard. Having set up our basic Child Theme structure we will now proceed with the customization. But before that we will do...
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2
Build a Custom WP with Semiomantics XO This post focuses on setting up our Main Theme and a Child Theme. For the purpose of this exercise we will use Semiomantics XO as the parent theme because it’s flexible, user-friendly and highly optimized. In fact you can use most any decent WP theme to follow...
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Author Blogs
Author Blogs Author Blogs are not necessarily writer blogs, meaning websites of published authors, as many people believe. In many cases they are personal blogs or websites where the focus can be on any specific topic – eg. gardening or cooking – or the author’s family or life in chronological order – which brings...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 6
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/lightroom-presets-for-landscapes/.Lightroom Presets for Landscapes
Presets area handy start … to create your own presets, adapted to your needs, taste and the purpose of your visual communication.
Landscapes are just an example and if I just use here another mediocre picture from the cheap $50 cam, it’s...
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Digital Photography Ycademy 4
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/digital-photo-ycademy-4/.
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1 Create your Photo Gallery
1.1 Ycademy Photo Gallery
1.2 Limitations
Create your Photo Gallery
Nice, your work! What’s next? We need an attractive and accessible way to share our photo- or other graphic work.
Looking at Photo Galleries online, you will notice: most of...
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Local Website Design
How to build a Local Website Go Local is the name of the game in 2011/12 and the success of bringing the global web developments back home is a trend of the time. First it was about tagging people, now we tag locations, be it on social networks such as Facebook or on Photo...
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Local Website Design
How to build a Local Website Go Local is the name of the game in 2011/12 and the success of bringing the global web developments back home is a trend of the time. First it was about tagging people, now we tag locations, be it on social networks such as Facebook or on Photo...
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Ycademy Easter Contest
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/people/ute-schaedler/ycademy-easter-contest-4/.
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1 Ycademy Easter Contest
1.1 HTML editing
1.2 Play with transparencies
Ycademy Easter Contest
Editing xml text is not all that difficult … once you get used to the format. In Semiomantics Evolution you can edit straight HTML code into the text tags, which...
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Ycademy Easter Contest 3
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/online-publishing/ycademy-easter-contest-3/.
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1 Implement your Flash Showcase
1.1 Prepare your upload
1.2 Upload and start populating Semiomantics Evolution
1.3 Edit menu.xml
1.4 Populate your image gallery (about)
1.5 Populate your Showcase or Portfolio
Implement your Flash Showcase
Once your script is cleaned out and reduced to what you actually...
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Ycademy Easter Contest 2
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/ycademy-easter-contest-2/.
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1 Build a Flash Showcase
1.1 1. Organize your work
1.2 2. Organize your Site
Build a Flash Showcase
Based on yesterday’s post with the terms of the contest, I will try to guide you step-by-step through a possible way of proceeding.
1. Organize your...
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Ycademy Easter Contest
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/ycademy-easter-contest/.
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1 Best Flash Website with Semiomantics Evolution
1.1 The best small flash site with Semiomantics Evolution
1.2 Tips
1.3 Deadline
1.4 Price
Best Flash Website with Semiomantics Evolution
Subsequent to the Ycademy March Seminar, I would like to launch an Easter Contest for all Seminar participants.
Here...
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Essex by Zo Nicholas
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/semiomantics/essex-by-zo-nicholas/.
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1 Essex -New Website with Semiomantics Evolution
1.1 Essex Showcase by Zo Nicholas
Essex -New Website with Semiomantics Evolution
The beauty of England and of Essex in particular will be featured on Zo Nicholas’ new website: My Essex. Zo is building the site...
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Spectacular Flowers by Ute Schaedler
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/semiomantics/spectacular-flowers-by-ute-schaedler/.
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1 Ute Schaedler builds a Flower Site at the Ycademy Seminar
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Resizing Pictures in Photoshop
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis/resize-a-picture-in-photoshop/.
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1 Resizing Pictures in Photoshop
1.1 Digital Photo resizing
1.2 Resizing in Photoshop
Resizing Pictures in Photoshop
For the purpose of the Seminar, we need to reduce the size of images for faster loading. One of the main issues is related to backgrounds.
Using a...
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Build your Flash Website Step 3
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/build-your-flash-website-step-3/.Build your Flash Website Step 3
Following some basic branding yesterday, and last night’s Ycademy call, the journey continues today with the choice of colors and fonts.
In order to choose a color scheme it is important to see how the site script will render fonts...
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Build your Flash Website Step 2
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/build-your-flash-website-step-2/.
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1 Build your Flash Website Step 2
1.1 The Menu – the Site Structure
1.2 Basic Customization – Branding and Look
Build your Flash Website Step 2
After yesterday’s definition of the project, we will move a step further today and implement basic customization....
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Build your Flash Intro
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/build-your-flash-intro-2/.
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1 Build your Flash Intro
1.1 Flash Intro for Gene Line
Build your Flash Intro
The flash intro is designed to anticipate your home or product page for example. In the case of a blog, you may replace your home page with the...
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Build your Flash Website
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/build-your-flash-website-4/.
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1 Define the Project
1.1 The Purpose of my Flash Website
1.2 The Flash Website Framework
1.3 The Main Categories
Define the Project
In view of the upcoming Ycademy Seminar, I will anticipate in a series of posts how participants can prepare the event and...
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Build your Flash Intro
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/build-your-flash-intro/.
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1 Build your Flash Intro
1.1 Flash Intro
Build your Flash Intro
After the 3D logo session last Friday, we have another unique session in store: Build your Flash Intro tonight at Ycademy.
Join from yorGOtalk at 7 pm London time (GMT).
Flash Intro
A flash...
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