Web Graphics Design

What’s the Secret of a captivating Web Graphics Design or a precious Perfume?

• Essence
• Sensuality
• Elegance
• Style
• Character
• Joy!

Essence – reflecting who you are and underlining your Brand. . . while letting the pictures talk, captivate and trigger the Results you expect!

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Web Graphics Design

What’s the Secret of a captivating Web Graphics Design or a precious Perfume?

• Essence
• Sensuality
• Elegance
• Style
• Character
• Joy!

Essence – reflecting who you are and underlining your Brand. . . while letting the pictures talk, captivate and trigger the Results you expect!

Read more soon. . .

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The Gift of Listening

During this precious yet in many ways loud and commercialized time between Christmas and New Year, find some moments where you give yourself space – ideally in Nature – and… listen.

Become totally still.

Quietly observe the energy and beauty that surround you; open yourself as they slowly embrace and flow into you… dissolving time and space… gently pulling you into a stream of consciousness where you are totally at peace and filled with the joy of just Being. Being connected. Connected with Oneness, Energy, Being.

Once you received this ‘Gift of Listening’… pass it on as the most profound gift you can ever give. Behold its essence as you move into the new year and life’s madness claims you back again…

The Gift of Listening

What do I mean with passing on the “Gift of Listening”?

There is so much talking, chatting, interaction of human minds… and so little real understanding which comes from really listening… meaning giving the other person room and space for expression, for being… and then taking it in with your entire being… feeling… before you think, before you respond, before preparing your own answer, clinging to your own mind, your own ego, your you.

Real listening is being in touch with one another on a much deeper level, a level beyond thought, where we are all One. That’s true Communication where magic can happen.

Thinking of you, Besma Bashier!

Besma Bashier

Talking of Magic!

I am thinking of you, dearest Besma, and your family… as after all this time you have finally settled in your new ‘home’, you are coming to ‘peace’.

I am passing on your good wishes to everyone who reads this and our blessings are with you… and our hope to see your lovely smile and hear your gentle voice live soon again!

Wishing YOU Happy Holidays and a Graceful Moment of Stillness!

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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

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

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:

Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler

Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa

Christmas Card personalized by Bianca Gubalke

Personalized Christmas Card by Bianca Gubalke using her Photoshop skills.

Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

Personaized Christmas Card Hack by Yorgo Nestoridis

From the Sphere to the Cube:

Hack 2

Hack 3 based on Toni Leuenberger

Hack 3

And while it’s so nice:

Christmas Card Hack 4

Laetitia Hack:

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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Best Price Sneakers

Sneakers at the best price are a trendy way to win the hearts of youngsters and oldies as well. The Sneaker as a fashion accessory or a cult status symbol is always a welcome present not only for athletes and hip-hoppers.

Best Price Nike Kicks

Insiders know: there is only one place for shopping for the latest from Nike at the best price: GlobalSportsUS in London!

I just caught the latest video on YouTube featuring the latest trends.

Ismail and Faiz setting Global Trends

Global Sports interpretation of trendy Nike Bling Sneakers is just smashing; Luxury and Creativity united on Nike Swarovski Crystal Custom Shoes at the best price.

Have a look and then rush to Global’s online outlet where you will find Christmas goodies for the whole family!

PS: They deliver fast and safely – I know from my own experience.

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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Best Price Sneakers

Sneakers at the best price are a trendy way to win the hearts of youngsters and oldies as well. The Sneaker as a fashion accessory or a cult status symbol is always a welcome present not only for athletes and hip-hoppers.

Best Price Nike Kicks

Insiders know: there is only one place for shopping for the latest from Nike at the best price: GlobalSportsUS in London!

I just caught the latest video on YouTube featuring the latest trends.

Ismail and Faiz setting Global Trends

Global Sports interpretation of trendy Nike Bling Sneakers is just smashing; Luxury and Creativity united on Nike Swarovski Crystal Custom Shoes at the best price.

Have a look and then rush to Global’s online outlet where you will find Christmas goodies for the whole family!

PS: They deliver fast and safely – I know from my own experience.

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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Web Design Consulting

For the purpose of  Web Design Consulting, we have set up a new website at :

http://web-design-consulting.biancagubalke.net.

Here we will post content about:

• Web Design
• Web Graphics Design
• Website Publishing
• Web Development Support

Web Design Consulting

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WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

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WP 2.9 User Features

*  Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ’spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ’smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ’separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php

Semiomantics Themes

All Semiomantics Themes will run on the WP 2.9 backbone. You will not notice any visual or visible difference except if you are hosted on outdated MySQL software; in such a case we recommend to either not update or to move the blog to a host fulfilling the appropriate server requirements. (See above: Server Requirements -  our Suggestion remains ChiHosters).

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The WP 2.9 version provides new options for optimization and modifies some of the features we have overwritten in the past for optimized performance. Also, as some of the hooks for plugins have changed, which will allow us to enhance our performance with special add-on scripts.

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

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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Semiomantics XO 2010 Licenses Limited Edition

Semiomantics XO 2010 Limited Edition allows Web Site Developers to build sites based on the finest Script which has ever left the Semiomantics site smith. Semiomantics XO 2010 has been extensively tested by Ycademy Pros since September 2009 and the 2010 Release Candidate has been debugged since and completed with some amazing features.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Frameworks perform without Plug-ins

In the past, the performance of basic Semiomantics Frameworks was based on a combination of  the WordPress back-bone, the Semiomantics script  (sometimes modified), WordPress plug-ins and a set of editing and publishing rules.

Most of the technical issues experienced were caused by the plug-ins.

Semiomantics XO 2010 performs without any plug-ins. We still recommend and install an anti-spam plug-in if the site allows for WordPress Comments and Pings. However, we expect that the traditional blog comments will soon be replaced with external Web 2.0 applications, namely with a Google Wave insert, which makes Akismet and such like obsolete.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Personal Blog and CMS

Economic Hosting due to low use of Memory

The absence of plug-ins decrease dramatically the need for server resources. Recently we have passed the need for 64 MB of memory namely with some media oriented sites and with aggregators. Shared hosting allocating 64 MB RAM or more is difficult to find and becomes an expensive issue.

The Problem with Plug-ins

While the WordPress development is greatly depending on plug-ins, which are made available for free by plug-in developers, they often constitute a stumbling block for beginners and advanced users in as much as they need attention and maintenance (updates, upgrades, sometimes customization).

Most plug-ins have been straight to the point a few years ago; today most popular plug-ins have been enriched by tracking features and multiple links and feeds out which are uncontrollable by the average user. Some plug-ins import whole external websites into the dashboard, donation buttons and even unrelated third party links and features.

It is not always clear whether plug-ins actually enhance the overall performance of a site or whether the site serves merely to improve the plug-in developers own site.

The Semiomantics Solution

Semiomantics has rewritten plug-ins for a while now for commercial customers and cleaned out what is not actually needed. Also, some “performance enhancers” have been added to the framework scripts to reduce the need for plug-ins. Semiomantics XO 2010 uses only about 50% of the Memory of comparable earlier versions, in any case clearly below 32 MB of RAM.

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License is more than just a license to use the XO scripts and to commercialize it. The License includes all trainings and support needed to customize and to adapt the scripts to the needs and preferences of customers. In fact it is designed for people who would like to start their own business building high performance sites for customers and it includes support and workshops to improve knowledge concerning web design, namely CSS, as well as Graphic Design with Photoshop and basic php coding.

XO’s best performance can be reached by respecting a set of editing and publishing rules which apply specifically to Semiomantics XO and which are the results of thorough in-house testing.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Seminar

The first specific Semiomantics 2010 XO Seminar exclusively for License holders, will take place on January 9, 2010. This one day seminar will highlight the new features of XO as well as detail the most efficient way to customize and adapt the scripts to the needs of customers.

Also the seminar participants will build a site with optimized XO default configuration which will serve as a model for any customer job.

Semiomantics XO additional templates for Photo blogs and Personal may be elaborated time permitting.

Investment and Limitation

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License has been issued in 10 only samples:

5 are Developer Licenses for people who use the scripts as a base for own development and who will not be allowed to use the Semiomantics Signature for their out-put but who will have to brand their work. These licenses are sold out.

5 are Semiomantics Business Licenses, allowing for the use of the Semiomantics script and brand as per above description. 2 only such licenses are available at this point and reserved for YORGOO – Ycademy Pros till December 16, 2009. After that date they will be withdrawn and allocated to external developers in the queue.

The Business Licenses include access to special trainings, seminars and workshops reserved for license holders.

How to get your License

For more info, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com

Buy now from HERE (some Internet Explorer users have reported check-out problems: with FireFox no problem is known.)

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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