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Mobile WordPress and Social Media The fast evolution of the mobile web has created new needs for publishers, whereas the objective remains to integrate mobile web targets into an existing workflow and to optimize productivity with the help of automated conversion scripts and tools. What’s New on Mobile WordPress and Social Media At Semiomantics the starting point for our development is the most comprehensive conversion plugin, called WPTouch Pro. WPTouch has released its latest version end of March 2012 with some adjustments for iOS 5.1 and many other fixes and developments: * Added: Custom advertising options for iPad * Added: Simple caching of desktop functions.php * Added: Russian language file * Added: Automatic archiving of previous settings in wptouch-data directory * Added: Compatibility setting for BuddyPress Mobile AJAX support * Fixed: Changing user-agent matching that may have interfered with advertising in certain scenarios * Changed: Replaced include with locate_template in theme files, should allow child overrides of custom WPtouch Pro template files * Changed: Algorithm to reload settings; may have caused settings to be lost in a certain scenario * Updated: All translations based on 2.6 strings * Fixed: An issue with Register and Lost password links in Classic * [...]
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XO Theme for WordPress Styling After each post, we display Tag, Category and RSS references. They are not part of the actual post; they are of a rather technical nature and may help visitors to find contextual content on the site. The SEO impact of publishing such Meta Information is discussable. Styling the Author Name We want to display the author’s name underneath the main title in small but remarkable fonts: .post .meta, .hentry .meta,.post .meta a, .hentry .meta a { color:#111111;letter-spacing:5px; } Note: we just use letter-spacing to gain visibility. Bottom Tags Usually these meta tags are printed in small print, often difficult to read. For the purpose of this exercise we have switched to a serif font (Times) and increased letter spacing for better readability: .storycontent .postmetadata, .storycontent .tags { font-family: Times, "Times New Roman",serif; font-variant:small-caps; font-size:16px; line-height:1.1em;color:#101010; letter-spacing:2.5px; } .storycontent .postmetadata a, .storycontent .tags a{ color:#000000; } Nothing really exciting here: we are using small-caps (alternatively upper-cases) and letter-spacing of 2.5px.Note that letter-spacing can take decimal values. The fun is in experimenting with font, colors and styles! Related posts: WordPress Date Styling Custom Typography on Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/semiomantics/how-to-create-a-favicon-with-photoshop/.Create .ICO Files (Favicons) with Photoshop The favicon or icon is part of the customization of a website. The favicons show namely in the browser tabs. Nowadays most browsers will also show .gif and .png icons; the .ico format is preferred by Internet Explorer. A quick and easy way to create a Favicon is by using the online tool put at disposal by favicon.com. A better result can be achieved by editing the favicon in Photoshop; however Photoshop does not support the .ICO format in its native version. A plug-in can remedy. Download and install the Plug-in To start with, download the free Plug-in from Telegraphics. Paste the plug-in file (ICOFormat.8bi, or ICOFormat64.8bi for the 64 bit version) in your Photoshop: …Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop/Plug-ins/File Formats. re-start Photoshop. Parameters you must respect The .ico file format will only be available in Photoshop if you respect the following: Maximum file size 256 x 256 pixels RGB, Bitmap, gray-scale or Indexed mode Maximum 8 bits per channel To save an image as .ico, use “save as” and select from the drop-down the ICO format. How to Create an Icon or Favicon in Photoshop Favicons [...]
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/web-design/create-butrtons-with-photoshop/.Free Button to Download Our last two Photoshop workshops dealt with buttons. Creating buttons allows us to have a closer look at blending options as well to start working with vector masks. Here is a sample of last night’s work: As you can see, the [...]Related posts:Create a Favicon with PhotoshopWatermark and Copyright with Photoshop CS4Resizing Pictures in PhotoshopBook covers and Jewel Cases with PhotoshopCreate your First Flash Document
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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/semiomantics/semiomantics-evo-2-images/. Contents [ hide ] 1 A sneak-preview of Evo 2 2 Author: A sneak-preview of Evo 2 Later today, Ycademy Seminar participants will build their own Evo2 based on the default as per Evo 2 Images here below: 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. This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page. Related posts:Bold WordPress tuned by Semiomantics Flash Components by Semiomantics Elegant Web Design New Evolution by Semiomantics Semiomantics Evolution Combo Elegant Web DesignRelated posts:Bold WordPress tuned by SemiomanticsFlash Components by SemiomanticsElegant Web Design New Evolution by SemiomanticsSemiomantics Evolution ComboElegant Web Design
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