Basic CSS3 to Customize your WordPress Theme

With the increasing browser compatibility of CSS3, additional customization of websites is in the reach of most anyone (Even a Monkey can do it, according to Nikos Advertizopoulos …). Tonight we will start with a series of calls to become familiar with the possibilities arising from the use of CSS3 on WordPress to improve typography and font styles.

You may follow the progress of the work at the Ycademy Demo Site which features the Semiomantics XO Theme.

Looking forward to seeing you on YorgoLive tonight.

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Transparent WordPress Custom Theme

Playing with the XO Theme Version 3.3.x from Semiomantics and CSS3, I notice how easy it is for most anyone to customize the XO Theme by adding transparencies and other CSS3 elements. Here below you find some drafts. You may visit the test site from : http://globalthebrand.com.

On the test site we use the Semiomantics Widgets and Theme Handler plug-in as well as a modified Supersized plug-in; the latter needs some more work to make it more responsive. Also we use TubePress which behaves fine also on mobile.

The Theme is Semiomantics XO with 3 custom child-themes; any theme can be associated with any page, post, category, tag or sidebar.

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New Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress

The above Screenshots represent just some of the pages, features and looks the 2012 Edition of the high performance XO Theme for WordPress has up its sleeves. The above site is the fruit of the 2 Days Ycademy Online Seminar for Semiomantics Developers and designers.

The 2012 Edition of XO is focused on even more flexibility in as much as editing, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility are concerned.

The Site displays perfectly on Mobile devices, showing responsiveness also of the plugged in scripts chosen of which some have been adapted to satisfy the high standards of Semiomantics Publishing Scripts for Excellence.

The site elaborated at the Ycademy Online Seminar this past week-end features some smashing features, such as:

• Background Slideshow, customizable for each page, post or archive
• Built in Directory
• Media Library for YouTube and Vimeo
• Pro-sliders which can be deployed anywhere on the site
• In addition to the responsive design, a separate light Mobile Version is available
• Bold and Efficient Navigation
• Built in Custom Fonts
• Social Network connectivity and publishing
• and much more.

The XO script is well commented and offers designers a clean and straight forward environment for custom developments. XO uses best practices for WordPress development and makes the best use of the possibilities offered by the WP back-bone, assuring smooth integration and optimized conflict handling.

XO is a great playground for designers. The DIY version allows anyone to adapt layout and colors to taste right from the back-office; there is no need to have any knowledge about coding or designing. The theme behaves like a Chameleon and adapts to specific needs with just a few clicks of the mouse: pre-configured layout elements transform your XO quickly into a Magazine, Newspaper, personal Author Blog, a Media Hub, a Shop, a Marketing Machine, a Social Media Publisher, a Product Promoter or a Fan Site or most anything your imagination dictates.

For the professional designer, XO offers a well commented environment. Custom code can be added right from the dashboard or, as I prefer using a child theme. XO is tuned for HTML5 and CSS3 use, making it a modern and inspiring framework for exceptional design effects.

Out of the box, the XO Theme for WordPress provides a stable and reliable, robust and optimized solution for common use. It provides built in features such a slider with multiple transitions and a one click selector for easy use.

Layouts can be easily adapted to needs and purpose of the site. In fact, most custom designers rely on the theme engine to format efficiently layouts.

The site featured in the above gallery uses a few pro plug-ins to add functionality in function of customer requirements. The integration of such add on scripts is a relatively simple process for designers and developers.

XO has been developed for high performance, productivity, excellence in publishing and flexibility. For the professional users, the XO Theme constitues a solid base with a huge potential for customization and creative artistic expression.

The release of XO Version 3.3.x is planned for the first week of February. The present Release Candidate has been thoroughly tested. A few minor issues will be taken care off before XO will be available to the public.

If your site is running on Semiomantics XO suing basic customization, the theme can just be overwritten. (Save your custom CSS beforehand.)

If you are using a custom version with custom developments or a child theme, some of your customization will need to be adapted to the enhancements of XO 2012. This concerns namely custom headers and footers as well as custom functions.

Support for developers and designers is available as usual at our Ycademy Online Calls and Seminars or through Semiomantics Pro Support.

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Semiomantics XO with CSS3 and HTML5

Time has come to learn about new technologies available for web designers and developers. All common browsers are increasingly able to read and interpret CSS 3 and HTML5 and about all computers are equipped to read java and jQuery. Therefore new possibilities become available to XO developers which we will focus on during the January Seminar.

XO has evolved over the past 4 years along with WordPress Developments. The theme has become responsive and shows perfectly on smart phones and tablets.

Subsequent to the release of WordPress 3.3.x XO needed some adjustments and updates which we have implemented and tested. New design functions become available for advanced customization. XO remains the most flexible theme for custom development, accessible to most anyone.

The goal of the seminar is to become familiar with XO and it’s new features as well as to learn how CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery allow to adapt XO to most any customer’s needs.

Some of the technical issues we will have a detailed look at are:

• Transparencies with CSS3
• Background Sliders
• Mobile Verions using WPTouch Pro
• Content and Frame sliders with Pro Slider and SlideDeck Pro
• Social Network connectivity with FacePages
• How to make a WP theme responsive (adapting to different screen sizes such as Smart Phones Tablets and bigger)

The most obvious expansions are via plug-ins. We will show how to make the best use of plug-ins for the Mobile Web, Social Networking, Social Media Publishing, Social Network Marketing as well as for more attractive display. Time permitting we will look into additional functions, such as shopping cart or marketing specific scripts.

We also will start looking into another important chapter:

How to convert your XO sites into a Mobile App!

In order to make the understanding easier, we will build a new site during the 2 days event. Please join our pre-seminar call on Thursday to prepare the event by setting up a new XO powered site.

All materials will be provided. You will just need some images/photos, videos and other content you may want to use to populate the XO site.

Saturday and Sunday, 28/29 January, 2012 from 1 pm London time till 9 pm London time.

Tickets are available on our new shop at HIOD.com. Please click on the below image to order.

Discounts as usual for Ycademy Pros: Please mail Bianca at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the coupon code.

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A clip with XO 2011 Sites

 

The clip presents some of the custom sites built on Semiomantics XO 2011.

Semiomantics XO 2012 will be released in January to catch up with the latest WordPress developments.

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10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Implementing your Facebook Strategy will be at the center of the November Ycademy Seminar. This hands-on Seminar and Workshop will stretch over two days and build with participants an eye-ball-twisting Facebook presence. See the seminar schedule at the bottom of the post.

The Seminar is designed for WordPress Developers and WP users who are looking for high productivity and customized publishing and marketing solutions.

This topic deals with efficient strategies which will efficiently improve your Facebook presence.

Visit the Semiomantics Facebook Page

Surfing through Facebook we notice some common errors well intended people commit when building their Facebook presence. We will discuss these issues and show you how to eliminate them from your personal or business Facebook.

While content is king, there are different ways of making it accessible to visitors. We will discuss the recent changes Facebook has implemented and show you where the focus should be in order to improve your visibility, traffic and business or network expansion on Facebook.

Function of your strategy we will define and optimize privacy settings in order to grant potentially interested visitors access to relevant information. Privacy, Accessibility and List-building as well as Targeted Communication are the essentials of this key session.

For people looking for you, your business, services or products, your Profile and Info page are of the utmost importance, the more that your info is visible from outside Facebook and therefore Google efficient. We will set up with participants an efficient Info Page.

We will discuss the recent changes implemented by Facebook and how they impact on our strategies.  Friends, Fans and Subscription features impact on the way we expand our network and influence on Facebook.

Overview of the Facebook Page feature. Integration techniques, Apps, Content, Canvas and Pages.

The focus is on the technical set-up of a Facebook Page. As  content we will use a graphic, picture of video.

What is it you actually wish to display on your Facebook page? In fact there is no limit and it depends entirely on your strategy.

This is the center piece of the seminar. Creating Facebook Page right from your WordPress site is now possible. We will set up a reveal page and different Facebook pages depending on participants needs. In fact we show you how to create a whole website in Facebook, straight from your WordPress.

While this works with most any WordPress 3.1 enabled Theme, we will demonstrate the integration with Semiomantics XO.

In fact we will work with a professional plugin modified for Semiomantics XO.

The Seminar will guide you to master the following and more:

• Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress

• Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways

• Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages

• Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor

• Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks

• Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization

• Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO

• Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog

• Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages

• Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages

• Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Add Facebook related widgets to your front and/or content pages. Google+ and Twitter buttons. Pull in Facebook Albums, Events, like Buttons and more. Use Facebook Connect to log in to or to register with your blog.

Create content which is only accessible after visitors clicked the “Like” button. A smashing filter which allows you to manage accessibility right from your XO.

Saturday and Sunday November 26/27, 2011.

We start at 1 pm London Time and end at 9 pm London time both days.

You need a WordPress blog preferably with FTP access.

Scripts and all other materials are provided.

We will install the necessary scripts for you previous to the Seminar; please get your Tickets early. If we are not yet in possession of the FTP access to your site, please send it by email to Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

The Price for Participating, Materials and access to recordings is $85.

Click to get your Ticket

Discount as usual for Ycademy Pros. Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the code or any other question you may have pertaining to the Seminar.

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WordPress 3.3 Update for XO by Semiomantics

Semiomantics XO users: update to WP 3.3 and appreciate the new admin bar featuring also your XO theme menu. Also new: the drag and drop media up-loader as well as the admin menu :-).

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How to Use WordPress for Online Marketing

The August Ycademy Online Seminar will focus on transforming your WordPress CMS into a powerful Marketing Machine.

Online Marketing is about gaining high visibility within a target market and submitting to targeted audiences our products and services. While a business website is the base of the online presence, the visibility and traffic remain the essential part of the marketing process.

Semiomantics has proven for years its ability to gain high Google rankings, visibility and traffic in most any niche and under most any keyword. The XO script allows us to out-perform competitors when it comes to publishing.

Attracting potential customers to our website is the first step, keeping visitors on the site and making them return is a second issue all together. Also, with the often large number of affiliate links users have to fight with, we need to implement features which make the workflow more efficient and allow to automatically promote affiliate links under multiple keywords. In fact, this does not only concern the promotion of Affiliate links, but any link to which we want to drive traffic.

The Semiomantics XO Framework is built with all the characteristics required for a high performance marketing website. Flexible layouts, easy customization and above all, highly optimized for Search Engines, XO serves as the ideal starting point for any online marketing effort.

Depending on the marketing strategies, various scripts can be added to XO to execute marketing tasks.

The Seminar will focus in depth on two main strategies:

1. Email Marketing
2. Affiliate Marketing

We will look into two aspects of Email Marketing:

1. Technical issues
2. Look and Perception (Design)

Email Marketing allows to follow up on visitors and their interest in our content. These follow ups can be implemented by using features such as

• Opt-in list building
• Auto-responders
• Newsletters
• News blasts
• Individual mails
• Lead capture pages

…  and so on.

Follow-ups aim conversion as well as bringing our content in front of a highly targeted audience (warm market).

The first part of the Seminar will resolve all technical issues and make sure that all participants are fully equipped to launch email campaigns as per individual needs. This means mainly that we will configure and set-up the mailing scripts and features, test them and build one or multiple newsletters to which visitors can subscribe.

Designing a Newsletter is similar to designing a Website in as much as the Look and Feel goes. Also, a newsletter, namely its online version can include functions for feed-back and interaction. We will distinguish between the emails being sent out to subscribers and the online version of the newsletter.

Once the functions decided, we will apply graphic design to make the mails and newsletters look attractive and functional.

To start personal Newsletter Theme Development, each participant will receive a copy of the XOmail theme, which will serve as a bases point for customization and adaptation to individual needs.

At the seminar we will customize the Email marketing publications to fit into each participants XO theme design (Logo, color, graphics, fonts, layout).

The set-up and implementation of the above will take a good part of the Seminar’s 2 day schedule.

To conclude the Seminar we will have a closer look at one aspect of Affiliate Marketing, namely the integration of automated link promotion. This is not only important for affiliate marketers but for all those who sell own products and services as well (target your shop). In fact, you could also just promote and automatically build links back to your main authority posts or pages.

Join the Seminar and we will show you how :-).

As usual, the Seminar will take place Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm – 9 pm London Time.

Ticket price: as usual: $85

Discounts for Ycademy Pros as usual – please ask Bianca for the Code. (bianca(at)ycademy.com)

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Semiomantics XO PhotoPress

This website is dedicated to the beauty and functionality of publishing Photos with WordPress. Photo Press is the Photo Website of YORGOO Press; it demonstrates various layouts and ways to present photos in a user-friendly, attractive and useful way. The site displays perfectly on mobile devices as well.

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No need to say much about XO for WordPress, its extraordinary performance has been proven times and again. The present site shows the flexibility of XO allowing professional designers to apply the most exciting designs to a high performance script without impacting negatively on the overall performance.

XO PhotoPress is a custom built WP theme based on the XO Framework from Semiomantics. It displays as well Photo Albums and Galleries as well as an integrated Blog; it also can serve as an image Aggregator displaying media in most any format and layout. The Theme is designed for Professional and non-professional use and can easily be used by individuals without advanced knowledge.

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Google Top 10 with Photos on XO for WordPress

Last night, the participants of the Image Editing and Publishing  Seminar by Ycademy, have demonstrated with a live test, how a well published digital photo can reach Google Top 10 on the general as well as on the image search engine.

Semiomantics XO is in my opinion the best publishing framework for WordPress. XO powered websites reach high visibility and perform extremely well on search engines namely on Google. Since the release of XO 2011, pre-configured custom post formats are available, namely for media publishing.

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The search term: Publishing Digital Photos on WordPress returns over 19 million results. Before our publication, WordPress and related sites were on top. As you can see from the above shots, all top 30 positions have been grabbed by seminar participants’ author blogs or related websites.

The above is also a nice demonstration of the power of the YORGOO Publishing Model as presented a few years ago and revised recently.

Besides the general search results, we also the Google Image search:

Click to see the results on Google Image Search

5 of the top 7 are images published during the seminar following the XO Publishing recommendations, namely Ranks 1,2,4,5,6; Rank 3 features an image posted earlier on Joe Cettina’s site.

Here are just a few of the images published by seminar participants (sorry guys, I just pinched them from your sites):

Ute Schaedler's High Speed Flower

My Low Speed Greek Fishing Boat

Joe Cettina's Bridge

Zo Nicholas Garden

Bianca Gubalke's Rainy Day

My Wall from Syros

Christelle Kleinhans Wedding Flowers

Barry Bell's Birding Trip

High visibility with media files is the essence of successful media based marketing. Showing nice images is one thing, providing visitors with services and goods is another issue. The publishing power of your XO, the quality of your graphics and images constitute a powerful tool to market most any product.

The Ycademy August Seminar will focus on: How to use your Publishing Power and Media to flatten the Path to Profitability.

I am looking forward to seeing you there.

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Digital Photography and WordPress

“How to Edit and Publish Digital Photos” is the focus of the Ycademy Online Seminar in July.

Taking photos has become a relatively easy and cheap task with the proliferation of accessible digital cameras and mobile devices, such as smart-phones and tablets. Of course the quality of the pictures varies in function of the quality of the camera and the skill of the photographer. Some of the shortcomings can be compensated by improving skills and post editing.

The Seminar will deal with editing digital photos using namely Photoshop and OnOne Professional Photo Tools.

Original 124 Kb

… after some basic editing …

Edited 153 Kb

… for web and devices with reduced JPEG quality.

30% JPEG for Web 27 Kb

Editingand post editing have a lot to do with the purpose of the image as well as on the destination platform. We will look into different options and detail specific requirements for the mobile web.

The above sample shows that editing makes the image heavier! The more filters, masks and brushes we apply the more Kb we ad and the slower the image will load once on the site. Here it is getting interesting: the above image counts 124 Kb as shot (it has just been cropped to 300 pixels wide), then we have added 29 px while editing and in the end reduced the JPEG quality to end up with a final 27 Kb, i.e. 2 Kb less than what we added by editing, amd yet, the image is more dynamix, vibrant and sharper.

In order to use editing tools efficiently, we must acquire some knowledge about the different filters and masks. We need to learn some terminology and we need to learn to translate the desired results into professional lingo, so that we use the appropriate tool to achieve the desired result.

The absence of such knowledge results in a “roulette approach” and therefore to unpredictable results and bloated file sizes.

Publishing Images and Photos with Semiomantics XO on WordPress

With WordPress 3 many new features became available and Semiomantics exploits them with the recent XO versions. In as much as images, videos and galleries are concerned, XO provides special post formates which are ideal for Media Publishng.

We will explain the custom formates and how to create a specific media feed stream throughout an XO publishing Network.

To apply the new skills and knowledge, we will build a photo content management system on XO. To anticipate the work and to make the best use of the time we dispose of, we will start building the Photo Site during the 2 Pre-Seminar calls on Tuesday and Thursday next. During these two sessions we will namely focus on customization and design of the XO to end up with a photo site which will provide multiple media streams to be used on other sites of the network.

July 30 – 31, 2011 as usual starting at 1 pm London Time each day and ending at 9 pm London Time.

Tickets: $85 with the usual special discount of $50 for Ycademy Pros; please get the Ycademy Pro Discount code from Bianca (@) ycademy.com as usual.

Click on the Image to get your Ticket - Thank You.

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XO Press Aggregator Script for WordPress

Brilliant new YORGOO Press set ups! After the recent move from News Cast scripts to Semiomantics XO, and the clean out after an important hack, the YORGOO Press sites have been set up with a new structure, whereas each site got it’s own independance.

Here some screenshots of the recent YORGOO Press Developments on Semiomantics XO.

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How to customize WPTouch Pro for XO

Customizing your WPTouch Pro skin is similar to customizing your XO all together, In fact, from an editing and design point of view, be prepared to some work! To display your Mobile XO on multiple platforms of the mobile web, you need to take into account the different screen resolutions and of course screen sizes, which means that you may have to load different versions of your graphics and images.

For the purpose of the XO Blog Mobile version, I have thought about sticking to my preferred design colors and fonts: red and gray scale as well as Helvetica for easy reading.

As you can see, from the above blog home, I have taken out backgrounds, round corners, paddings and margins to just separate posts by a dotted line. Header size, icons and post thumbnails have been increased in size for a better surf experience.

The menu page underwent the same cure:

As you know, I like it bold and minimalist and I guess it’s pretty much what you get here.

The same style you find on pages, such as the author page which includes the contact form:

/*WPTouch Pro Style for Semiomantics XO Mobile
Author: Yorgo Nestoridis
Style URL: http://semiomantics.com/xo/xo/xo-mobile-them…th-wptouch-pro
Designed for Semiomantics XO Blog at http://semiomantics.com/xo
tags:mobile theme for wordpress, wordpress mobile, xo, mobile, semiomantics xo.
Date: June 29, 2011
*/
.post .thumbnail-wrap {position: relative;float: left;display: block; height: 90px;width: 120px;margin-right: 8px;}
.post img.attachment-post-thumbnail {width: 120px;height: 90px;border:2px #FFF;}
body.wptouch-pro {background:#fff;}
.clean-white a#logo-title {color:#000000 !important; text-shaddow:none !important;text-shadow:none !important;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:24px;font-style:bold;}
.clean-white #header {background:#FFFFFF;color:#000;height:70px;border-bottom:3px double #000;}
.clean-white a#header-menu-toggle {background: #D40000;width:40px;height:40px;}
.clean-white #tab-bar {background:#ffffff;border-top:3px double #000;}
img#logo-icon {width:57px;height:57px;}
#main-menu{margin-top:18px;}
.post {padding:0px !important;margin:1px 3px 0 3px;border-bottom: 1px dotted #222222;border-top:0 !important;!important;border-left:0 !important;}
.post h2, .post h2 a {font-weight:bold;}
#content{margin-top:9px;}
a#logo-title {padding-top:22px;}
a.read-entry {background:#d40000;color:#FFFFFF;margin-bottom:5px;}
.post.page-title-area img{width:114px;height:114px;}
#main-menu ul li img {width:48px;height:48px;}
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a.read-entry {margin-left:10px;}

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Contents

Semiomantics XO Mobile on iPad

The XO Startup Page on iPad 2

XO Home Page on iPad

XO Blog Menu

XO Mobile Main Menu

Screenshots

Subsequent to the recent Ycademy Online Seminar, Semiomantics Developers are prepared to build XO Mobile versions for display across most any mobile platform. Here some quick photos of what an XO can look like on an iPad.

The XO Startup Page on iPad 2

XO Home Page on iPad

XO Blog Menu

XO Mobile Main Menu

The above are just some photos taken outside in the sinking sun on late afternoon.

Screenshots

To compare, here are some screenshots right from the iPad:

Or the start-up screen:

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NewsCast by Semiomantics

NewsCast is the latest development by Semiomantics and we are quite proud of it. In fact, it’s the most user-friendly script we have ever produced and while the theme requires to configure the options from the dashboard, about all semiomantics scripts have been built into the wordpress script. This means: we will not require many plug-ins as in previous versions.

There is not much there for the time being but here are two samples:

Please find the users guide for NewsCast HERE

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Semiomantics NewsCast is a customized WordPress Based Website. We will load it according to specifications.

Pricing: as per today $1250 installed and customized.

As per today, no performance records are available however, being a Semiomantics script, it is expected to perform in a comparable manner as XO, Private and YORGOO Press. NewsCast is a highend script!

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NewsCast 12 Hour Promo for Ycademy and YORGOO Pro only

Did you read the posts about our new Product and Theme NewsCast?

NewsCast by Semiomantics

Post by Bianca Gubalke

Demo Site

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In order to give Ycademy Pros and YORGOO Pros a due advantage, we launch a 12 Hours only promo:

Get the new YORGOO NewsCast Script as well as all subsequent updates for the unique Price of $29.95 during the next 12 hours.

Not sure?

Join tonight’s online YORGOO Call at 9 pm GMT (London) at yorGOtalk.

Each Purchase provides a license for personal use only. You are not allowed to resell or put at the disposal of any third person all or parts of the NewsCast Package.

The price includes future updates.

We will not sell more than 25 copies of this unique script in total.

Custom Built Versions with Semiomantics Full Pack will be available as from $750 ( as YORGOO Press) under the Semiomantics Product Line.

We will develop this script further and update and upgrade as WordPress updates.

In the future we may add upgrade modules for various purposes such as social network marketing, media casting, live streaming and such like. Such upgrades are not included.

A special install session will be held on Thursday evening at 8 pm London; recordings will be available for all purchasers.

I stick with my earlier claim: this is a dream website as it is scalable and offers unlimited possibilities for expansion. Without exaggeration, this is the hottest deal we were ever able to offer, considering the licenses concerned. More tonight.

Please get your NewsCast from HERE

Sorry, we did not set up a sales page as this is just a quick promo, probably mainly for people who know about the publishing power of our scripts and also as there are only 25 units available; we will rather focus on support and install services than on hyping up something that’s better than any hype can ever express:-).

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News Cast by YORGOO – The Dream Web Site

A New Semiomantics Framework called YORGOO News Cast is to be released later this week. News Cast is the flagship of the Semiomantics News Paper and Magazine type of publication frameworks, including the Tabloid, the YORGOO Press and now the YORGOO News cast theme.

YORGOO News Cast has a “foldable” or scalable News Paper layout. The Front Page is built in modules which can be switched on or off with a mouse click to fit the layout to the user’s needs.

Featured Video and Image categories are brought to the top of the page, as well as the latest news headlines. This gives a quick, informative and yet complete overview about the latest and most important happenings on the site.

Default images and automated thumbnails are associated with each post in the different category fields of the layout.

Page menus above and Category menus below the header make the site accessible and easy to surf.

Compared to YORGOO Press, single pages and single posts are easier to read due to improved styling.

Built in Hooks for Flickr allow external management of image streams.

Feeds per Category are automatically made available to visitors making it easy to extract targeted feeds from the site.

Advertising on the site is similar to YORGOO Press: reserved spaces in the layout where html code is added as well as widgets which can be added to or replace content of content fields in the layout.

Default language is English. A language file allows to translate the theme quickly into any language.

Multiple style sheets are built in and can be selected from the dashboard. Customization is easily possible by editing the CSS files.

YORGOO NewsCast will be added to the Semiomantics Product Catalog. Pricing will be similar to YORGOO Press. Site install and support is included in the price.

Licenses will be available for single site, multiple sites and developers.

A total of maximum 20 News Cast Sites will be built.

A launch Promo will be announced shortly for Ycademy Pros and YORGOO Pros.

Join the online YORGOO NewsCast Presentation on Monday, July 6, 2009 at 9 pm London Time at yorGOtalk.

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WordPress for Facebook Seminar

Welcome to the WordPress for Facebook Seminar! This seminar is about Social Media Marketing and Communication involving WordPress, namely the Semiomantics XO Framework and Facebook.

During the next two days we will elaborate and implement strategies to automate publication and communication across platforms with a special focus on the mobile web.

Why would you want to combine WordPress with Facebook?

The main reason is to remain in control of your content, its presentation and the way it streams to and from Facebook. Also, a self-hosted WordPress provides you with better content management features and automation tools than Facebook.

If you are a Facebook freak, you can even spend the rest of your life within Facebook and publish at the same time through WordPress Semiomantics XO right from within Facebook. Our pre-seminar sessions demonstrated how to embed your XO on a Facebook Canvas page, from where you have complete access to your WP installation, dashboard and editing and publishing tools.

If you don’t want to spend any time in Facebook, then you just need to implement Social Media Marketing and Publishing Strategies as lined out in the YORGOO Publishing Model and your Facebook antenna will do its job automatically and send traffic back to your site.

WordPress and namely the extended Semiomantics XO Framework provide visitors from the mobile web with a top notch surfing experience! Fast loading pages, easy to surf menus and the look of a mobile application are achieved with the use of WPTouch Pro, the most advanced tool out there to assure cross platform publishing on the mobile web: be it iPod, iPad, iPhone, Andoid, Blackberry, IEMobile 7, Googlebot Mobile, webmate, incognito,dream, CUPCAKE, froyo your site will be optimized for most any device class.

Having said the above, there is yet another interesting feature we will look into: your website within the website by using SlideDeck Pro with your Semiomantics XO.

In fact we embed SD Pro as well in Facebook as on the mobile web providing surfers with automated slide shows, scrolling titles and videos and much more. SD Pro stands for a more exciting surf experience and it allows us to automate a good deal of our publishing and editing work across multiple platforms.

I am convinced this will be an exciting Seminar once more and as it is extremely user focused you will enjoy the workshops and the immediately visible results.

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NEW FBlogster to Blog on Facebook with Semiomantics

Breakthrough in Facebook Marketing: Let your Semiomantics powered WordPress interact with Facebook and your friends and customers! FBlogster is a Canvas size Semiomantics XO built into Facebook.

Finished the WordPress embeds with FBML since Facebook changed the rules in February 2011 (again!). Now we work with iFrames and as shown recently with FBlaster, Semiomantics offers the most flexible solutions for WordPress on Facebook.

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The good news is that Semiomantics XO Developers are able to bring their best scripts to the Facebook Canvas. From there to interact with Facebook it’s a minor step. Appreciate another milestone by Semiomantics Facebook Developments.

WordPress for Facebook

To learn more, join the Ycademy June Seminar!

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Semiomantics Customized Solutions

This post will give an overview over the various customized semantics publishing framework solutions we have in store.

This is the basic blogging solution for high performance publishing. All customized Semiomantics scripts are built on the XO Framework.

Better known as YORGOO Press; an News Paper Layout with many hidden features and all the benefits of Semiomantics Frameworks. YORGOO Press is extremely flexible and can be extended for most any use.

Better known as YORGOO Tabloid; similar to YORGOO Press with an easier to use layout on the home page.

Better known as YORGOO Blaster: a high speed, high performance easy to use tool to storm Google Top 10 in specific Niches.

Similar to YORGOO Blaster, the YORGOO Booster is a high speed Ads Delivery system targeting Google Top 10 in Niches.

A typical formula for Authors who strive to associate their authorship to their production and to promote their work as authors.

Better known as YORGOO Publishing; simply the best Publishing Tool in the market for individual Publishers.

A magazine theme which by now has established its reputation, namely along the Garden Route in South Africa.

The perfect match between semiomantics and e-commerce; probably the best optimized online shop solution.

A framework for Media; publishing of images, video, sound in any format with the benefits of Semiomantics to drive your publication to the top of Google.

The Framework for artists, photographers and media creators. Protected content, paired with a shopping cart in an artistic environment and with the benefits of Semiomantics.

Based on a smashing idea, Semiomantics Link Directory builds directories which show on Google, unlike typical Directory scripts which have just not been designed for that purpose.

Based on the same idea as Semiomantics Directory, Semiomantics Classifieds produce Classifieds which impact on Google. (Release July 2009).

Another application based on Semiomantics Directory. Unique in as much as we combine Archives with high performance Semiomantics publishing.

A special applications for users who need a high performance gallery while protecting the content.

High Performance Review site based on Semiomantics XO.

A forum paired with high performance publishing; forum entries end up with high visibility.

Publish, mix and remix content from your preferred Social Networks or, monetize your social bla-bla!

Hot, unique and may be the last accessible aggregator with high performance in the market.

Features a membership module with structured, multi-class members and access.

Exactly what it says; and if you imagine the affiliate module in combination with the e-commerce module, then get a complete business site which is easy to run and to maintenance.

Our interpretation of   WPMU and Buddypress, called YORGOO Media.

We will present each product individually in the near future to allow you to choose the best solution for your needs.

If you have additional special needs, Semiomantics will build it for you.

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Google Top 10 Ranking

You want to reach Google top 10 ranking with your website? Great. And then, what’s next?

Ask yourself this simple question and create a relation between your purpose and your website. Different reasons can motivate you to storm Google: you want high visibility for interested people to find your content. You want to increase the readership to influence the way people think about a topic (opinion leader). You want to occupy space on Google Top 10 to earn money.

Fine, but how do you want to make money?

Let’s not go into keyword analysis and market assessment here; let’s just look at the mechanisms which allow you to make money from your Google Top 10 Position.

When people search Google to find a solution to a problem or question, they will end up on the Top 10 search return page. Your entry shares the benefit of that page with 9 other organic entries, maybe an authority entry as well as with some advertisers who pay for being listed on the right side of the page.

The more people search for your terms (keywords) the more the Google Result page obtains and the more you are likely to harvest your share of that traffic.

Some people will click on your Google entry and end up on your site, respectively on the specific page of your site which has made the race.

Your site has different things to offer to your visitor: Contextual Content, other content, Ads and Gadgets.

By Clicking on your ads or by following related commercial links from within your content, visitors will enter your sales pipeline. Depending on what marketing strategy you use, you may make money from every single click (pay per click programs, such as Google AdSense) or you may direct visitors to a sales page of yours (shop for example) or of a merchant you are an affiliate of. The Third possibility is that visitors click on ads you have been paid for to display by direct advertisers.

Basically it’s your content which will make you earn a Google Top 10 position.

Content is what Google is looking for; a product review is a good example for strategic content. The content can be directly linked to a sales pipeline from within the post or page, by linking from within your post to your shop or affiliate program where the reviewed product is sold and from where you expect commissions (your shop, Amazon Affiliate Program, and many more).

In this case, the content has 2 functions:

1. It earns your Top 10 position.

2. It links to contextual sales.

This strategy is probably the most rewarding one, since the content (originally that’s what visitors came to your site for) takes the information a step further right to a sales pipeline.

The Problem is: you need to write good content to reach Google Top 10 and you need to create the necessary empathy with your readers to keep them interested enough to follow your recommended links.

This strategy is compatible with all other strategies and can be used on any site format.

You are a fairly good producer of content, but your skills are not particularly sharp on writing ‘sales pages’.

Here the content transports your site to Google Top 10 but you will not focus on selling straight off your content (text), you may rather want to0 associate ads to your post, within the loop (post).

A contextual ad associated with a post is great stuff and still better than just being able to use the sidebars, headers and footers of your page. Such ads can have the shape of banners, text ads or flash or whatever you like and they can refer to your own products, other people’s products or advertisers, such as Google Ads.

This strategy is brilliant in as much as it can be associated to any content, even authorized syndicated content and it will work. Imagine you get a great product feed from a merchant to your site and you associate automatically relevant ads?

How about headers, footer and sidebars?

These are the most basic places you will find ads on and most webmasters use ads in their framework. Such ads can be contextual, such as Google Ads or they can just be ads promoting products and services of general interest to your readership.

The danger and main mistake you may notice is that people often exaggerate to such an extent that visitors will not look at the parts of your layout where you accumulate ads; in fact many a surfer has developed a reflex to smartly navigate around ads areas on websites.

The quantity of ads is less decisive than the quality, the editing quality! One well placed and edited ad may do much better than 10 ads which scare people away.

The Good News remains: such ads can be completely separated from the content and the extreme strategy would consist in overwriding the visitors original interest in your content with a new interest in what the ad or promo is claiming!

This is an incredibly simple concept allowing people without writing skills to monetize a Top 10 Position.

Does it work? Yes, it does as YORGOO Blasters prove daily.

Combine any of the above strategies in function of your purpose, skills and ambitions and select the appropriate framework for doing so. If you are content focused, you want to select a framework with highlights your content, if you are ads focused, your need a framework which will exhibit your ads in an overwhelming way, and so on.

Typically Content oriented Frameworks are : Yorgo Nestoridis, YORGOO Publishing.

Typically Mixed Frameworks are: YORGOO Press, YORGOO Tabloid

Typically Ads oriented Frameworks are: YORGOO Blaster, YORGOO Booster, Dublicator

Ycademy Calls and Seminars have been dealing with Search Engine Optimization for over 2 years as well as on the resulting monetization. Contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com for further information or register for the June Seminar from HERE.

Over the past years we have developed successful scripts, known as Semiomantics scripts which have been specially designed to storm Google and to place them selves as frameworks on Google top positions. All sites referred to above are powered by Semiomantics and all of them rank on Google Top 10 in their respective fields.

All Semiomantics scripts are released in very limited editions to provide a real advantage to users.

Our latest development, YORGOO Booster will be released on June 27-28, 2009 at the Ycademy Online Seminar to all participants. Soon you will see them all over the place. Contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com for more information and availability of scripts.

See a test Booster in action HERE

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Facebook and Mobile Web Seminar by Ycademy

Wow! Your Semiomantics Sites go mobile and Facebook! How to hook your WordPress to Facebook and build an eye catching Mobile Site with the look of a iPhone Application?

Our June Seminar will deal with all the issues relating to interaction with Facebook and the Mobile Web.

The interaction with Facebook is vital to reach out to 1 out of 10 people in this world who are Facebook Subscribers! There are multiple possibilities to hook to Facebook, but not all of them are to our advantage.

At Semiomantics Facebook developments we have tested various possibilities and identified the options which optimize best our activity on Facebook.

We are proud to share with Seminar participants the Facebook Marketing Concepts elaborated over the most recent months, namely since Facebook introduced new rules in February.

As usual, 1 pm – 9 pm London time on each day.

As usual on Brain Time, $85, Ycademy Pro Discount:$50.

Starting from our Author Websites, we will feed all our activity into Facebook with the purpose to gain visibility in Facebook and their Search Engine. The second step is to extract from Facebook a maximum of Facebook activity to make it available outside Facebook and to optimize it for Google.

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For the second part above we will be glad to use our YORGOOPress blog, which by then should run on Semiomantics XO!

Finally, we will spend the rest of the week-end on working on an eye-catching presentation of our Author Blog on the Mobile Web, optimizing the site for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Blackberry, Win 7 Mobile and so on.

After the Seminar, you will be able to duplicate the above for your customers.

Tuesday and Thursday our daily calls at YorgoLive will be focusing on updating and upgrading your websites at YORGOOPress and your Author Blog where needed. Please be there as we prefer not to waste our time on these issues during the seminar.

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Updated Author Blog and Press sites. Photoshop, HTML Editor, Text Editor; all other materials and scripts will be provided.

Look out for advanced software which will be announced later this week.

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New YORGOO Plugin for YORGOO Press

YORGOO Plug ins are YORGOO developments or revised existing WordPress Plug ins. There are two main reasons to develop such plug ins for our Semiomantics WordPress Scripts:

1. Standard Plug ins are increasingly polluted with links and scriptlets which are not relevant to the actual function of the Plug in

and

2. Standard Plug ins may not always satisfy the particular standards of Semiomantics.

YORGOO Ads

YORGOO Ads has been developed to help users to make money with their  their Semiomantics powered Web sites.

After testing the y-ads Plug in on YORGOO Press we are proud to release today the final version of this advertising Plug in. The Release name is YORGOO Ads.

YORGOO Ads will embed any script code (HTML, Java etc) into your Posts. There are 3 simultaneous  possibilities to embed ads or other content:

- on top of the Post

- at the Bottom of the Post

- and anywhere within the post.

YORGOO Ads is commercialized with the Semiomantics Marketing Pack for WordPress Platforms.

All advanced YORGOO Press Scripts on YORGOOPress.com have been equipped with YORGOO Ads.

Join tonight’s WebMaster Call at yorGOtalk at 8 pm GMT (London) where we will present and implement the features of YORGOO Ads with advanced YORGOO Press users.

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WordPress 2.8 Baker released

WordPress has just released it’s latest version 2.8 where a bunch of new features are available for the comfort of average WP users. The most important change is in the speed and in the fact that themes can be loaded and easily edited from the dashboard.

The name Baker has been added in honor of the trumpeter Chet Baker (not Brenda Baker for once, but I could agree with naming it just for our Brenda).

Most plug-ins work well with WP 2.8. We have tested over 100 plug-ins on this site so far.

The Feedwordpress plug-in presents however a serious problem in the interface under Syndication Settings namely for individual links: the tag selector does not work and therefore tags cannot be added properly.

All recommended plug-ins work with all our scripts except the feedwordpress as mentioned above. If you are not using feedwordpress, you may just upgrade your installation form the dashboard and appreciate the new features.

YORGOO Booster

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a YORGOO Blaster

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a Semiomantics Script on YORGOO Publishing

We will keep you posted about the fixes. As all scripts work perfectly well on WP 2.7.1, there is no immediate reason to upgrade and if you are using any of the problematic plug-ins, such as feedwordpress, just remain put; we are working on a fix and it’s probable that the feedwordpress developer will come up with a new version shortly.

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