Basic CSS3 to Customize your WordPress Theme

With the increasing browser compatibility of CSS3, additional customization of websites is in the reach of most anyone (Even a Monkey can do it, according to Nikos Advertizopoulos …). Tonight we will start with a series of calls to become familiar with the possibilities arising from the use of CSS3 on WordPress to improve typography and font styles.

You may follow the progress of the work at the Ycademy Demo Site which features the Semiomantics XO Theme.

Looking forward to seeing you on YorgoLive tonight.

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Christmas Cards Personalized

The yearly returning Christmas Season offers a nice opportunity to create personalized Christmas Cards. Here below some samples from our friends who either created a card or personalized an existing design.

Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger, Switzerland

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Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger

Building Authority, trust and confidence is a permanent effort we carry over into 2010.

Christmas Card Personalized by Laetitia Paris, France

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Christmas Card personalized by Laetitia Paris

Campaign on Laetitia’s personalized Christmas Card … simply a Must!

Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler, Germany

Seasn Greetings on Ute Schaedler’s website:

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Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler

Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa

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Christmas Card personalized by Bianca Gubalke

Personalized Christmas Card by Bianca Gubalke using her Photoshop skills.

Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

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Personaized Christmas Card Hack by Yorgo Nestoridis

From the Sphere to the Cube:

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Hack 2

Hack 3 based on Toni Leuenberger

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Hack 3

And while it’s so nice:

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Christmas Card Hack 4

Laetitia Hack:

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Hack 5

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Implementing your Facebook Strategy will be at the center of the November Ycademy Seminar. This hands-on Seminar and Workshop will stretch over two days and build with participants an eye-ball-twisting Facebook presence. See the seminar schedule at the bottom of the post.

The Seminar is designed for WordPress Developers and WP users who are looking for high productivity and customized publishing and marketing solutions.

This topic deals with efficient strategies which will efficiently improve your Facebook presence.

Visit the Semiomantics Facebook Page

Surfing through Facebook we notice some common errors well intended people commit when building their Facebook presence. We will discuss these issues and show you how to eliminate them from your personal or business Facebook.

While content is king, there are different ways of making it accessible to visitors. We will discuss the recent changes Facebook has implemented and show you where the focus should be in order to improve your visibility, traffic and business or network expansion on Facebook.

Function of your strategy we will define and optimize privacy settings in order to grant potentially interested visitors access to relevant information. Privacy, Accessibility and List-building as well as Targeted Communication are the essentials of this key session.

For people looking for you, your business, services or products, your Profile and Info page are of the utmost importance, the more that your info is visible from outside Facebook and therefore Google efficient. We will set up with participants an efficient Info Page.

We will discuss the recent changes implemented by Facebook and how they impact on our strategies.  Friends, Fans and Subscription features impact on the way we expand our network and influence on Facebook.

Overview of the Facebook Page feature. Integration techniques, Apps, Content, Canvas and Pages.

The focus is on the technical set-up of a Facebook Page. As  content we will use a graphic, picture of video.

What is it you actually wish to display on your Facebook page? In fact there is no limit and it depends entirely on your strategy.

This is the center piece of the seminar. Creating Facebook Page right from your WordPress site is now possible. We will set up a reveal page and different Facebook pages depending on participants needs. In fact we show you how to create a whole website in Facebook, straight from your WordPress.

While this works with most any WordPress 3.1 enabled Theme, we will demonstrate the integration with Semiomantics XO.

In fact we will work with a professional plugin modified for Semiomantics XO.

The Seminar will guide you to master the following and more:

• Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress

• Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways

• Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages

• Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor

• Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks

• Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization

• Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO

• Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog

• Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages

• Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages

• Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Add Facebook related widgets to your front and/or content pages. Google+ and Twitter buttons. Pull in Facebook Albums, Events, like Buttons and more. Use Facebook Connect to log in to or to register with your blog.

Create content which is only accessible after visitors clicked the “Like” button. A smashing filter which allows you to manage accessibility right from your XO.

Saturday and Sunday November 26/27, 2011.

We start at 1 pm London Time and end at 9 pm London time both days.

You need a WordPress blog preferably with FTP access.

Scripts and all other materials are provided.

We will install the necessary scripts for you previous to the Seminar; please get your Tickets early. If we are not yet in possession of the FTP access to your site, please send it by email to Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

The Price for Participating, Materials and access to recordings is $85.

Click to get your Ticket

Discount as usual for Ycademy Pros. Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the code or any other question you may have pertaining to the Seminar.

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Google Wave: the first ever online Workshop and Seminar

The Ycademy Online Seminar on November 21/22, 2009 will feature Google Wave and Social Network Publishing. This will be the first ever Online Seminar and Workshop dedicated to Google Wave, the new and future oriented Communication Tool.

Google Wave

What is Google Wave

“Google Wave is “a personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.

Initially released only to developers, a “preview release” of Google Wave was extended to nearly 1 million users beginning September 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite up to twenty additional users.” (Wikipedia)

More on Google Wave to follow shortly

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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Are you getting ready for the 2011 finals?

We offer you the best Cape Town Conferencing Venue for your final workshop 2011, annual conference meeting or even Xmas Party at Monkey Valley Resort in Noordhoek, South Africa – just about 30 kms South of Cape Town.

Best Cape Town Conferencing

Please visit the Best Cape Town Conferencing Venue HERE  – and note just some of our regular clients! Don’t procrastinate your decisions as our beautiful venue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean is filling up fast!

Have a look at the great November 2011 Promotion as Accommodation in paradise is concerned… hurry – that’s all I can say :)

While we are still waiting to integrate the Booking System for easy bookings, you can get all your information directly on the website, including contact information in whatever you are interested in. Or simply leave a comment and you will be contacted directly from Monkey Valley Resort.

FireFox or Internet Explorer

In terms of website development, this new Monkey Valley Resort website is being designed using Mozilla Firefox, where it shows perfectly.

There are slight diversions on Internet Explorer that still need some additional coding… too bad that they can’t find a general norm. But this too shall pass :)

BOOK NOW!

Are you getting ready for the 2011 finals?

We offer you the best Cape Town Conferencing Venue for your final workshop 2011, annual conference meeting or even Xmas Party at Monkey Valley Resort in Noordhoek, South Africa – just about 30 kms South of Cape Town.

Best Cape Town Conferencing

Please visit the Best Cape Town Conferencing Venue HERE  – and note just some of our regular clients! Don’t procrastinate your decisions as our beautiful venue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean is filling up fast!

Have a look at the great November 2011 Promotion as Accommodation in paradise is concerned… hurry – that’s all I can say :)

While we are still waiting to integrate the Booking System for easy bookings, you can get all your information directly on the website, including contact information in whatever you are interested in. Or simply leave a comment and you will be contacted directly from Monkey Valley Resort.

FireFox or Internet Explorer

In terms of website development, this new Monkey Valley Resort website is being designed using Mozilla Firefox, where it shows perfectly.

There are slight diversions on Internet Explorer that still need some additional coding… too bad that they can’t find a general norm. But this too shall pass :)

BOOK NOW!

FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic.com is still very much a work in progress.

A brand new theme, Semiomntics XO, new design and a new cleaner look. Still some bits to tidy up, a bit more work on the stylesheet to get the result I am after. All this of course takes time. So, so far..

Old Web Design on FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic

Old Free Leads and Free Traffic

FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic.com new Web Design

Still work to be done.

Free Leads and Free Traffic – new

Microsoft Updates

Daily Online Training Call

Thursday 22nd October

Microsoft Updates

Superb information call focusing on the latest Microsoft release, Windows 7 and other relevant updates. Lots of information on the practical application of various  releases to make your computer life a pleasurable experience.

Images   

Any blogger knows that images talk and how important it is to have good graphics easily visible online.  Benefit from your daily posts and images using readily available free software 0nline.

Training Call Workshop

The workshop was a step by step practical application of certain programs to gain visibility online. 

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

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When considering a new web design for any site one must take into  a few important factors.  First and foremost it must be customer-friendly, appealing to the eye, content clearly visible and easily navigated.

Web Design for Free Leads and Free Traffic

FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic is rather an old blog that has been neglected but not forgotten.  The design is outdated  and not very attractive. It needs a complete overhaul, a new design and a new future.

Old Web Design on Free Leads and Free Traffic

I have decided to change the appearance, the theme, and use the Semiomantics XO script which is much more versatile and appealing and technically more Google efficient. Also, too many plugins make the old site heavy and  slow to open.  The whole site  lacks personality.

Within the next few weeks I will endeavour to bring some life back to the site and a little modernity.

Daily Online Training Call

Tuesday 20th October

Security Issues

One of the main problems of being online is the  security issues. With so many bugs and viruses around that can bring about total choas on a computer or even worse, everyone is very careful to f ind and install a good anti-virus program.

Tonites call covered these kind of  security issues and the latest updates from Microsoft relating to viruses.

Training Call Workshop

This evenings  workshop covered working with images, Picasa and uploading to work to a blog.  

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

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• Header Graphics 2

Daily Online Training Call

Tuesday 20th October

Security Issues

One of the main problems of being online is the  security issues. With so many bugs and viruses around that can bring about total choas on a computer or even worse, everyone is very careful to f ind and install a good anti-virus program.

Tonites call covered these kind of  security issues and the latest updates from Microsoft relating to viruses.

Training Call Workshop

This evenings  workshop covered working with images, Picasa and uploading to work to a blog.  

For recordings of the training:

Daily Online Training call recording

For more information about the Daily Online Training calls click here.

Read more..

• Editing photos with filters
• Creating a Static Background on a blog
• Web Design images
• Web Design fonts
• Web Design font
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• Header Graphics 2

Web Design images 2009 by Zo nicholas

Creating a collection of web design fonts in the gallery for further use on different sites.

Font Galleries

Fonts - fonts  used on web design sandbox

Fonts 2 - mixed collection of fonts

Fonts 3 -  coming soon

Part of the ‘look’ of any website is the fontface that is used, for the title and the body or contents. Visitors do remember the look, the colour and the feel of a site. 

For this site, ‘Web Design’, I have already settled on a title font, however for the h1,h2,h3 that is used in the body I have been experimenting with a few different fonts to see which suits the layout and title of this site better.

There are many sites online that offer free fonts. Decide on the category of font that suits the style of your site and save the font to your hard drive. By building up a selection of fonts you can thus experiment on your site.

Choosing a font

Choosing a font for Web Design

Fonts do have to be clearly visible and esily read if used mainly in text.
After much consideration I came down to two choices. The Dali font and the sf_scribbled_sans_bold both handwriting fonts. The Dali font I decided that  here it was too thin and too feint in certain letters like the ’s’, so not too easy to read, whereas the sf sctribbled sans bold was much more inkeeping with the title font and by being bold and easier to read.

Web Design is a ’sandbox’ – hence the style of font here marries up with the ‘note taking’ scribble/experimental theme.

Branding by Ycademy

It has been a long way to brand yourself, your business or your online presence. Now it’s time to implement your brand. next week’s Ycademy Seminar will, amongst others, focus on the implementation of your image.

Branding your Website

The exercise with Semiomantics XO RC is finished and the resulting brand elements are implemented on your site:

Implementation on my Design Site.

Branding your Social Networks

Import your brand elements to your social network sites where allowed:

Implementation on Twitter.

Branding your Media Site

Your Brand extends to your Media sites:

Implementation on YouTube.

Look forward to a busy October Ycademy Online Seminar!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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Sometimes a plain photo or image is rather boring and makes no impact at all. Just by adding a border to a photo or image gives it a complete lift and adds a new dimension.

Add a border using Gimp

Here are some examples of borders using a free photo/image editor like Gimp. These require no technical skills, just a few simple mouse clicks hence easy to use by anyone.

For this example I have chosen a photo of a dragonfly, caught firmly on my washing. As you can see it is a plain photo, just catching the moment.  

Dragonfly

Opening the Gimp editor I opened the image I want to use and then selected ‘Filter’ and then selected ‘Decor’. By using the ‘Add a Border’  and making a few adjustments this changed the dimension of the photo.

Dragonfly with border

Re-using this new image of the dragonfly with a border I again  selected ‘Border’ and created a green border around it. A border within a border.

Dragonfly with green border

The more you experiment with the editor the easier it gets. Heres another example of just playing around with the editor.

Dragonfly playtime

Sometimes a plain photo or image is rather boring and makes no impact at all. Just by adding a border to a photo or image gives it a complete lift and adds a new dimension.

Add a border using Gimp

Here are some examples of borders using a free photo/image editor like Gimp. These require no technical skills, just a few simple mouse clicks hence easy to use by anyone.

For this example I have chosen a photo of a dragonfly, caught firmly on my washing. As you can see it is a plain photo, just catching the moment.  

Dragonfly

Opening the Gimp editor I opened the image I want to use and then selected ‘Filter’ and then selected ‘Decor’. By using the ‘Add a Border’  and making a few adjustments this changed the dimension of the photo.

Dragonfly with border

Re-using this new image of the dragonfly with a border I again  selected ‘Border’ and created a green border around it. A border within a border.

Dragonfly with green border

The more you experiment with the editor the easier it gets. Heres another example of just playing around with the editor.

Dragonfly playtime

Grunge Chrome Fonts

Chrome and grunge fonts, what a funny mix. Have a look at the below images and see what messed up chrome fonts do to Yorgo.

Grunge Chrome 1

Grunge Chrome Fonts 1

Grunge Chrome Fonts 2

Grunge Chrome Fonts 2

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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More Chrome Fonts for your Corvette

Shiny Chrome effects are nice, however their effect depends on the Font used. Here below a few samples for the name chrome of Larrie Perkins, Ute Schaedler, Bianca Gubalke, Hanno Coetzee and Zo Nicholas.

Chrome Fonts

Chrome Fonts

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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Transparent Glass Butterfly for Laetitia Paris

Playing with Glass Fonts, I came accross a nice little Butterfly (Mouche de beurre); here is the transparent glass version with a Y for branding purposes :-).

Glass Butterfly

This one is for Laetitia Paris collection.

Mouche de Beurre

Mouche de Beurre 2

Flash Version of Transparent Glass Butterfly

The same transparent glass butterfly as 1 above in flash: click HERE.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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