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 some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned. Some basic WP Settings Here is what I do in the dashboard: 1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post. 2. Delete the default Links. 3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/ 4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins 5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at: http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed Custom Posts and Child Theme We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of [...]
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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 some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned. Some basic WP Settings Here is what I do in the dashboard: 1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post. 2. Delete the default Links. 3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/ 4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins 5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at: http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed Custom Posts and Child Theme We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of [...]
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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 this tutorial, namely the TwentyEleven which comes with the WP installation. Adding a Theme Like on any live site, our test site on BitNami allows us to add themes either from the Dashboard (upload the theme’s zip file) or by pasting the theme into the themes folder in wp-contents. Access your BitNami environment using Windows Explorer and surf to the themes folder. You will see the same folders and files structure under htdocs as you are used to when accessing your WordPress folder on a server using an FTP client. In order to add Themes, we just drop theme folders into the ‘themes’ folder as per above. As you can see, I have amongst others) added my Semiomantics XO (the ‘xo’ folder under themes). XO will serve as the parent theme of the new website. Instead however of customizing XO directly, I will create a child [...]
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-publishing-1/blog-for-money/.How to set up a Money Making Blog We are looking at 4 essential elements needed to make money with your blog. 1. Traffic Where there are no visitors, there is no money. Traffic will depend on how well you communicate the existence of your content or how well you promote your blog. Some of the most used ways to bring visitors to our blog are email, search engine optimization, aggregators, social networking, wod to mouth. In short: all means of communication are good to make people aware of our blog or a blog post. 2. Content While the first task of your content is to be noticed by search engines and spiders in order to be indexed and listed in the most appropriate way, the second task is to provide your reader content of interest and value. The indexing and listing makes it possible for people to find your posts when they search for information, solutions, benefits or for whatever they may type into a search box. Once they are on your site, the quality of you content will decide on your success; it can build trust, inspire authority [...]
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-publishing-1/your-shop-on-google-top-10-with-your-sho/.Google Top 10 Ranking for your Shop New Ideas New Performance Is your shop ranking on Google Top 10? Under a relevant keyword? Can Search Engine Users find your shop on Google Top 10 when looking urgently for a product? Frameworks tuned to reach Google Top 10 Semiomantics has been tuning sites for top 10 performance for years and while things become more complex online, a new Content and Ads delivery system which can be used even by a complete newbie has been developed based on the huge experience gained over time and from daily practice. Unique Opportunity to enter the Google Top 10 Elite On June 30 the new Script, YORGOO Booster, will be officially released to the public. However we will train a handful online marketers, newbies and pros during the coming week-end to understand Search Engine Marketing and the use of the new script. The Ycademy Online Seminar, taking place this coming week-end will deal with YORGOO Booster and with all the elements it can transport and deliver right to the Top of Google. 2 Benefits You will be amongst the first owners of a new kind [...]
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis/simple-shopping-cart-for-your-blog/.Simple Shopping Cart for Semiomantics Sites If you don’t need a whole shop, here is a simple solution to create quickly a shopping cart on your site where interested visitors may order multiple products. This cart can be added to posts, pages, widgets or anywhere in the php script. This is a demo test only! Please read this post at YorgoNestoridis.com to see the demo. List of Products Service 1 [wp_cart:Service 1:price:100:end] Service 2 [wp_cart:Service 2:price:200:end] Service 3 [wp_cart:Service 3:price:300:end] Cart and Check out Click on one or more buttons and check your cart on top of the page. You can manage orders and check out with PayPal. The feature can come in handy even if it may need a tweak to automate fulfillment. Incoming search terms:simple shopping cart to email address Related posts:Ycademy Online Seminar BIG NEWS Ycademy Seminar: How to Build an Online Business Make Money with YORGOO Press Seminar Dealing with Images on your Blog How to Build an Online Business 5
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis/how-to-build-an-online-business-104/.How to Build an Online Business: Business Portal We have reached the stage of implementation and we will start by building a Business Portal. Different considerations will guide our choices. Consideration In view of the Target Market (South Africa) we will register and set up a local domain for the main business web site. The site will have a portal function and link to the various business branches represented each by its own website. Structured portals or directories usually are not very Search Engine efficient. For this reason we use CMS Software with high publishing power. A second important issue concerns local partners. We want to provide prospects as from the beginning with local contacts. The Choices We have registered the domain yorgoo.co.za. As YORGOO is our Brand in the global market, used to make advanced technology available to a large public and to provide free services, we want to profit from eventual synergies resulting from the established reputation of YORGOO Enterprises. The Website will be built on a customized Semiomantics Business Site Script. We are using an adapted magazine type layout for user friendly navigation and we will add [...]
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Working from Home News on Google
NY - Working from Home is an important keyword on all big search engines. On Google there are over 100 million search returns on Working from Home. If you add to it the word "news" and make it "Working from Home News", Google returns over 400 Million results.
Interestingly on the News related Working from Home term, there are next to no advertisers. Work from Home and Working from Home are the privileged keywords of the traditional Home Business Industry.
Zo Nicholas' Publication, Working from Home News is full of interesting content for Work from Home Aficionados. One of the reasons is in the fact that Zo has a huge experience and knowledge which she is willing to share on her site.
Lack of knowledge, lack of experience means loss of time and money. Most home business developers commit the same errors, namely when it comes to online marketing. Take the shortcut and pass by Zo's site to improve your online performance, it's worth while.
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(Note there are 441,000,000 search returns and we aim top 10)
One of the most important tips I found on Working from Home News is: start working on your own visibility instead of just booking Google Ads. Google Ads are a great tool, however they are extremely expensive when they are not accompanied by an attractive landing site. Note: it's not a landing page but a landing site!
Lead generation has changed over time and while a simple pop-up with an 'opt-in here' box was enough a few years ago, we need today more sophisticated tools and environments which inspire confidence and trust.
What the Feedback records do for EBay sellers, do Google rankings and listings for most other environments. A bought spot on Google's top 10 page of the targeted keyword can never be the equivalent to an authority site on the organic top 10 listing on the same page.
Replicated landing pages have become about useless and yet some people have only realized since we have an economic crises that you need a landing page at all instead of sending people directly to a product or business page. Sorry to say, but you have missed the train and you are just about to miss the next train.
Today the world is shaped by social networks. Users of Facebook and such like are used to a certain comfort and an attractive interactive environment, for most the only way to imagine socializing online. Sending Facebook users to a landing page with traditional "work from home fire your boss" slogans is inefficient and a waste of time. To the contrary, it's destructive when it comes to the relations you have built in your social network.
We have been running permanent tests on advertising online for over 5 years and from our own experience we know that advertising is not a one-way road and it is not a war you can fight with just one arm.
Nowadays we need to combine our strategies in a much more thought through way to use our advertising dollars in the best possible way. The single one strategy with an increasingly growing importance is your personal authority outside of the social network environment. Business is not done and deals are not closed on social networks but in your own external environment. Your website must therefore beat Facebook anytime!
Social Media Marketing is about meeting people in social networks and getting them out of the social network to close a deal. It only works if you provide an inspiring site, a site which confirms and builds additional trust and confidence.
Objective bench marks about how trustworthy you are, are nonexistent except if you can show positive feedback (blog comments), independent editorials about you on Google (looking up the site owners name on Google, the suggested business opportunity's company name and related topics) and yet that is just an indication. You may try to look at performance records, visible presence, and more and yet nothing will ever equal the personal experience people have with you by dealing with you OVER TIME.
Having said the above, we can deduct that online you have many entries, many places you go to and you communicate through; but in the end you have only one reputation to lose. The same is true for your business opportunity. Mixed reputation records are the best killer of a business online; would you buy from a seller with a positive feed-back record of 70% only on EBay?
Or, would you join a business where 3 out of the top 10 Google entries talk about spam, lawsuits or fraud? You probably would not even join if 90% only are flawless. Think about EBay's standards where over 98% of the feed backs need to be positive to keep Power Seller status.
How about if Google creates even a recommended search category for Scam under your business name, or if you are claiming to sell 'natural' food supplements and Google comes up with a recommended search for side effects or another doubt inspiring category 'does it work'?
Would you sign up with a company corresponding to the above profile? Seriously?
Herbalife
Herbalife fullfills all the above criteria; would you sign up after consulting Google?
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My point is not to judge Herbalife here or to take position about the quality of any products or business opportunities. My point is: the internet is one big town and you have only one reputation to preserve or to lose. If you are suffering from a mixed image, your reputation is harmed. Some companies and individuals do not attach enough importance to their image online and wonder why their popularity online is not what it appears to be in a closed vase environment offline.
Would you want to associate your name with a company or business opportunity which shows signs of hampered reputation on the most simple Google search returns? Can you afford to spend your time and money to fix the reputation of your Merchant and to convince your prospects and customers that what they see online 'is not true'; can you really afford it?
The real issue is that Your Reputation and the perceivable reputation of the Business you represent or are a distributor of will impact directly on your sales figures. Herbalife is probably not an online opportunity, otherwise they would take care of their online reputation. The strategy is: grab people online and drag them to a low-tech one to one environment to close deals. The internet in any case would not help here as transparency becomes a stumbling block.
The way to sell is by selling yourself first. Don't count on anyone else. Your reputation sells and with your reputation you sell anything! A modern Working from Home enterprise has the absolute freedom to choose sell any product or service to sell: sales are linked to YOUR relationships and less on the reputation of the merchant or the product you sell. The power is on your side not on the merchant: I therefore cannot understand, how so called business opportunities where you have to pay for a license, can survive, if elsewhere the wind has turned long ago to a situation where you are paid to promote a company or their products instead of having to pay for doing so.
Working from Home is a brilliant idea. Be proud to belong to this industry; the sales power is with you and depends on the relationships you are able to build online or offline. The rest is secondary.
Working from Home News will provide you with information, ideas and inspiration, a great site with great content!
Yorgo Nestoridis
PS: Working from Home News is built on YORGOO Press with the aim to offer visitors an interesting, stimulating and interactive (landing) environment.
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Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/ycademy/banner-rotator-for-semiomantics/.
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Banner Rotator for Semiomantics
I know, you have seen them all and there is nothing exciting about banner rotators … until you see the new Component we use in Semiomantics scripts:
This rotator can be customized for sidebars, posts, ...
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1.1 Flash Components by Semiomantics
Semiomantics Flash Components for Ycademy May Seminar
The upcoming Ycademy Seminar is focusing on Flash, Flash Components and user experience enhanced by Flash. The Seminar is designed for Website Designers and ...
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1.1 Flash Components by Semiomantics
Semiomantics Flash Components for Ycademy May Seminar
The upcoming Ycademy Seminar is focusing on Flash, Flash Components and user experience enhanced by Flash. The Seminar is designed for Website Designers and [...]
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1.1 Goals
1.2 Topics and Workshops
1.3 1. Introduction to Flash and its use in modern web and media design
1.4 2. Flash Pro
1.5 3. Flash Components
1.6 4. Flash Template Editing
1.7 5. PowerPoint to Flash Conversion
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Embed PowerPoint in Flash
While we are focusing on Flash these days, we are also interested in tools which can make our life easier, namely PowerPoint to Flash converters.
Ycademy May Seminar Participants will be playing with an advanced ...
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Create your First Flash Document Tonight
At tonight’s Ycademy Flash Workshop we will finish the intro to Flash and create a first animated Flash Document.
We will continue working with the Live Conference tonight; please login from ...
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 to [...]
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1.1 Ycademy Photo Gallery
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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 them ...
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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 makes ...
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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 need ...
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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 work
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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.
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Best Flash Website with Semiomantics Evolution
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