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How to make WordPress Themes Responsive

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Responsive Themes for WordPress Responsive Websites become a must in 2012. This tutorial demonstrates how to make your WordPress Theme Responsive. What is Responsive Web Design? In very simple terms: Responsive Web Design aims to display content adapted to the visitors screen size. This means namely that the layout width must be fluid, i.e....
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Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012 - The XO Theme for WordPress remains the most flexible theme for custom development, accessible to most anyone Related posts:

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Trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012

By Bianca Gubalke

Trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012 In a world of infinite choice, we all have our personal preferences when it comes to creating the Web Design for our personal websites and blogs – and this is exactly what many of our customers will tell us, especially if they have a business with set colors, fonts and...
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Windows 7: God Mode Tip

By Zo Nicholas

By Zo NicholasWindows 7 :  God Mode Tip I really like my new Windows 7, its such an improvement on Windows Vista. Today a friend passed on a super tip that I would like to share. Ever heard of GodMode? GodMode is a cool feature that allows you to see all the computer settings in one place,...
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Christmas Card 2011

By Bianca Gubalke

Christmas Card 2011 As the Festive Season is rapidly approaching, it’s time to think of how to wish “Merry Christmas” and  a “Happy New Year 2011″ . Here’s a first Christmas Card 2011 for YOU – I just loaded the tiny video clip on YouTube! Christmas Card 2011 The above Christmas Card 2011 was...
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Google Top 10 with Semiomantics Network

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Google Top 10 by Streamlining Semiomantics 1.1 Google Top 10 Secrets 1.2 Google Top 10 on YouTube Google Top 10 by Streamlining Semiomantics Yesterday’s Ycademy call dealt with streamlining communication flows through a small Semiomantics Publishing Network, such as YORGOO Publishing. The purpose was to show how the high performance publishing engine...
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Cape Town Christmas on Google

By Bianca Gubalke

Cape Town Christmas on Google Loyal to our regular monitoring of the SEO performance of our WordPress based Semiomantics websites and blogs – our own as well as those of our valued customers – , I am extremely pleased to see an excellent Google ranking of my article “Cape Town Christmas Gift Fair 2011″...
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The Purpose of a Website

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 The Purpose of a Website 1.1 Expand your Business to the Internet 1.2 Build Brand Recognition and Notoriety 1.3 Preserve and impact on the Image of the Business – Goodwill 1.4 Communication with a market or a social environment 1.5 Increase the level of service to customers 1.6 Let other people build your...
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Facebook and Home Business

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo NestoridisFacebook and Home Business Facebook and other social networks have become a marketing playground for Home Business Builders. However, the invasion of the Social Environment by MLM freaks and so called get rich quick Home Business Builders is damaging the fun of social networks and may drive people away. Push Marketers spam and...
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New Facebook Page

By Bianca Gubalke

New Facebook Page Following up on yesterday’s post HERE, and based on the fact that WordPress now allows for superb – yet quite complex and time-consuming -  integration possibilities with Facebook, all participants of this past weekend’s Ycademy Seminar November 2011 developed a new Facebook Page – also called “Fanpage”. New Facebook Page It’s...
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Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca GubalkeBianca Gubalke on Google Wave Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave – I am excited about this future-oriented new Communication and Collaboration tool on the Web – and I thank the friend who invited me. As yes. . .  it needs an invitation… and it’s early days. However,  Google Wave can only be as...
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Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca GubalkeBianca Gubalke on Google Wave Bianca Gubalke on Google Wave – I am excited about this future-oriented new Communication and Collaboration tool on the Web – and I thank the friend who invited me. As yes. . .  it needs an invitation… and it’s early days. However,  Google Wave can only be as...
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Facebook Fanpage

By Bianca Gubalke

Facebook Fanpage Creating a Facebook Fanpage from our WordPress has become possible and, accordingly, this month’s (current) Ycademy Seminar November 2011 focuses on setting up the Best WP based Facebook Fanpage based on our purpose and online media marketing requirements.   Facebook Fanpage The question to ask ourselves is: “Who would we like to...
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Communication with Birds

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca Gubalke Communication with Birds Communication with Birds is a red thread through my life. . . but this was definitely a Cape White-eye SOS this morning! Panic in my garden! Social Networks These tiny birds form large “social networks” outside the breeding season and often visit flowering bushes or berry-bearing plants in large flocks – appearing...
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Watercolor Online

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca Gubalke Contents [ hide ] 1 Watercolor Online 1.1 Watercolor Online 1.2 Honey Bee on a Bottlebrush Watercolor Online Watercolor Online – is this possible? I loved doing watercolors in the good old days before the PC entered my life, and I still admire artists who really know how to create this form of spontaneously controlled Artwork where...
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Malachite Sunbird

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca GubalkeMalachite Sunbird The Malachite Sunbird – or so-called Green Sugarbird – is endemic to the Cape Peninsula, right at the tip of Africa. It depends on the many nectar-producing plant species and the insects attracted to them on which they feed  – especially the sugarbush Protea, the Pincushion Protea Leucospermum and Pagodas Mimetes,...
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Malachite Sunbird

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca GubalkeMalachite Sunbird Malachite Sunbirds (Nectarinia famosa, 1766, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa ) are beautiful little emerald jewels on flurry wings. Attracted by the rich colourful proteas and many other flowering species in my garden, I have a couple of them breeding and it’s not rare they even come into my Studio…...
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Experimenting with Photoshop Filters

By Bianca Gubalke

Experimenting with Photoshop Filters While there’s nothing better than a good picture or photo to start out with, we should regularly be experimenting with Photoshop Filters and Tools to know what they do and to see the effects we can achieve. It’s just like playing the piano every day… so here’s my original lavender...
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Google Wave Communication Tools

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca Gubalke Contents [ hide ] 1 Google Wave Communication Tools 1.1 About Google Wave 1.2 Google Wave Communication Tools on Google Top 10 1.3 Google Wave Communication Tools on Ycademy Seminar Google Wave Communication Tools Google Wave Communication Tools determine the way we will communicate and interact on Web2.0 in the near future; it is the big OLA!...
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Google Wave Communication Tools

By Bianca Gubalke

by Bianca GubalkeGoogle Wave Communication Tools The brand-new Google Wave Communication Tools are about to create waves and will definitely open new horizons of never before experienced speed in terms of Online Communication. Now it’s all about catching the “Google Wave” . . . firstly understanding and then implementing this “personal communication and collaboration tool” that...
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