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Semiomantics XR – Responsive WordPress Theme

By Yorgo Nestoridis

XR – New Responsive Universal WordPress Theme Semiomantics is releasing its new flagship theme, the XR for WordPress. The time is right to move on and to take advantage of the most recent WordPress and browser developments. Influenced by the broad acceptance of HTML5 and CSS3, boilerplate developments and bootstrap as well as easy...
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Monkey Valley Resort Workshops

By Bianca Gubalke

Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/media-marketing/monkey-valley-resort-workshops/.Monkey Valley Resort Workshops While the Alan Marriott Extreme Hypnosis Show on Saturday 24th July was not quite a “Monkey Valley Resort Workshop”, the venue is regularly used for Workshops and Conferences by large Corporates and small Businesses alike. The natural environment is ideal...
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Bistro Sixteen82

By Bianca Gubalke

Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/bistro-sixteen82-3/.Bistro Sixteen82 on Google Top 10 Bistro Sixteen82 is a highly defended niche keyword on Google Top 10 – anything to do with food and wine always is :) And of course, there is Steenberg Vineyards…and domain names count. So, where are we after...
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Semiomantics XO Flash Header Accordion

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/semiomantics/semiomantics-xo-flash-header-accordion/. Contents [ hide ] 1 Semiomantics XO Flash Header Accordion 1.1 Flash Accordion for Semiomantics XO style 1 1.2 Flash Accordion for Semiomantics XO style 2 Semiomantics XO Flash Header Accordion Based on the recent May Seminar, Semiomantics has created a special header for Semiomantics XO featuring a...
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How to use the Crop Tool

By Bianca Gubalke

How to use the Crop Tool on Google In my previous article HERE I explained how to use the crop tool in the new Adobe Photoshop CS6. Here I do my daily SEO and monitoring to keep an eye on how my articles perform on Google Top 10.   How to use the Crop...
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Ycademy Online Seminar June 2012

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas: Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through...
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Website Security

By Bianca Gubalke

Website Security Website Security is an issue website developers as well as website owners are threatened and occasionally challenged with. With the sophistication of today’s hacking and phishing tactics, you want to make sure your hosting package includes maintenance and support as otherwise the threat of losing a lot of time, nerves and money...
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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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Restaurant Websites

By Bianca Gubalke

Restaurant Websites Today, even the most popular restaurant needs a presence online and there are extensive web developments for Restaurant Websites.   Restaurant Websites While we may all have our favourite hangout spots and like to follow our friends’ suggestions when visiting a new one, Restaurant Websites help to find new places when travelling...
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Make Your Website Mobile

By Bianca Gubalke

Make Your Website Mobile Actually, the title of this post should not be “How to Make Your Website Mobile” – as for this you use a plugin like WP Touch Pro. The issue here is – as discussed in my earlier article on  “iPhone Simulator”  (or ‘iPhone Emulator’ as it was called in the...
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Author Blogs

By Bianca Gubalke

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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Conferences and Events Websites

By Bianca Gubalke

Conferences and Events Websites Conferences and Events Websites are a topic I am currently focusing on as developing a new company website for Conference Management Services in Southern Africa. This will also include Weddings and Destination Management. For more information and to see some of my work in this area, please go to my...
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iPhone Simulator

By Bianca Gubalke

iPhone Simulator Not everybody owns an iPhone – but as Web Designers we are facing the fast evolution of the Mobile Web and have to make our websites mobile. So how can we design what we can’t see? The answer is an iPhone Simulator. The question is really: which one? The first sketches I...
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Customizing CSS in WP Mobile Theme

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Common Changes This post lists some CSS snippets to customize WPTouch Pro. Remove the Page Title Area Note: When removing the page title area we recommend using a child theme’s stylesheet and applying the code below to its corresponding stylesheet, per the instructions on applying custom CSS. In the iPhone theme: In the iPad...
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Customizing CSS in WP Mobile Theme

By Yorgo Nestoridis

Common Changes This post lists some CSS snippets to customize WPTouch Pro. Remove the Page Title Area Note: When removing the page title area we recommend using a child theme’s stylesheet and applying the code below to its corresponding stylesheet, per the instructions on applying custom CSS. In the iPhone theme: In the iPad...
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1 May 2012 Results

By Bianca Gubalke

1 May 2012 Results Most will look at 1 May 2012 results once the day is over… here in Noordhoek, South Africa, we do the opposite! After a day and night of tremendous gale-force storms with the sound of the ocean reverberating so loud at 3:15 am in the morning we thought the water...
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Hotels and Lodges Websites

By Bianca Gubalke

Hotels and Lodges Websites When designing Hotels and Lodges Websites… I focus on offering visitors a personal taste of the real atmosphere of the place – mostly in form of photos, images or videos and perhaps some great testimonials of guests who shared their impressions of that ‘place’. People and Place… Place and People...
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Cars and Trucks Websites

By Bianca Gubalke

Cars and Trucks Websites The net abounds with Cars and Trucks Websites – however, how user-friendly and Google efficient are they really? We did quite some research when creating a new website for Used Cars and Trucks for our customer Magnetic Transport Surplus in Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao. Cars and Trucks Websites Just as...
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Art Exhibitions on Google

By Bianca Gubalke

Art Exhibitions on Google Having published my article just a few minutes ago, let’s see its immediate impact: As per screenshot, you see that Art Exhibitions Websites is on Google Top 10 – rank 7 to be exact – within 14 minutes on 165 000 000 search returns! Art Exhibitions on Google Art Exhibitions...
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