Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

Semiomantics Mobile Developments

Build­ing Apps for mobile devices becomes cru­cial for online suc­cess as an increas­ing num­ber of web users shift to mobile devices and as the usage stats of mobile users has already passed web usage by desk­top and lap-top users in many countries. Learn how to Build a Mobile App for iOS, Android and Windows...
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3

Semiomantics XO Custom Magazine for WordPress

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...
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2

Semiomantics XO for WordPress - Custom Magazine

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...
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How to build a custom WordPress Site

Semiomantics XO Custom Theme for WordPress

Cus­tom Word­Press Design and Developments This post will start a series of arti­cles about build­ing cus­tom Web­sites based on Word­Press and the Semi­oman­tics XO Theme. We will there­fore use most of our remain­ing daily Ycad­emy calls this month to go into advanced cus­tomiza­tion issues. But first we will start at the begin­ning by plan­ning and...
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SuperMoon 2012 Image

Super­Moon 2012 Image

The edited ver­sion of the Super­Moon 2012 from Vouliagmeni.

SuperMoon 2012 Vouliagmeni Greece

How to shoot the Moon with a Point and Shoot Camera

Vouliagmeni Moon MAy 4, 2012

Vou­liag­meni Moon Photo with Point and Shoot Camera Believe it or not, it is pos­si­ble to shoot the Moon with an aver­age point and shoot cam­era. In fact, for as long as you dis­pose of a rea­son­able opti­cal zoom (300–400 mm equiv­a­lent) and the pos­si­bil­ity to switch to man­ual set­tings, you should be able...
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How to Preview your Mobile WordPress for iPhone and iPad

Semiomantics Mobile Developments

iPhone Sim­u­la­tor or Emu­la­tor for WordPress? Sub­se­quent to last week’s Ycad­emy Sem­i­nar, I read on Bianca Gubalke’s blog a post about the dif­fi­culty to cre­ate a Word­Press Mobile ver­sion with­out hav­ing recourse to a pre­view tool. As I agree with this state­ment, I will show you here below a sim­ple method to pre­view your...
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Give WordPress an App Look

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App Look for WordPress Screen­shots — under development  
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Mobile Developments for Small and Home Business

YORGOO App

Mobile Devel­op­ments for Small and Home Business The rapid expan­sion of the Mobile Web and the suc­cess of smart­phones and tablets open new oppor­tu­ni­ties and imper­a­tives for Web­site Devel­op­ments. In as much as Semi­oman­tics is con­cerned, the focus is set on two main issues: Con­ver­sion and inte­gra­tion of web con­tent into an App Pub­lish­ing on...
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Customizing CSS in WP Mobile Theme

Semiomantics XO Mobile for WordPress

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 theme: Remove reflec­tion...
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Eval base64 Hack Solutions

WordPress Theme Yorgo

eval base64 on Word­Press or other Sites Word­Press and other CMS pow­ered sites are often tar­gets for hack­ers who mass-inject some code into php and or html files. What to look for The cases I came across so far showed a hack just before the clos­ing body tag in form of a short script point­ing to an...
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Local Website Design

Vouliagmeni Local Footprints at Astir Beach

How to build a Local Website Go Local is the name of the game in 2011/12 and the suc­cess of bring­ing the global web devel­op­ments back home is a trend of the time. First it was about tag­ging peo­ple, now we tag loca­tions, be it on social net­works such as Face­book or on Photo...
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