Minimalist Elegant Web Design

Subsequent to yesterday’s post about elegant web design, here are two sample sites I like particularly, namely because of the minimalistic approach. Of course, the blank space can be populated by customizing the design.

Elegant dark Web Design

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Elegant Web Design Home Page with a presentation slider

Preview the site HERE

Elegant white Web Design

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Elegant Web Design 2 – Home Page with a video clip

Preview the site HERE.

The two above referenced sites are designed for media presentation. Their multiple gallery modules can hold most any current media format. Media embedded into flash offers a better protection against content theft while allowing for good quality images.

These two designs, optimized by Semiomantics will shortly be available from our store. Web Designers and Web Site developers can modify any files as we pass on all source files (fla).

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Build your Flash Website

Build your Flash Website at the March Online Seminar by Ycademy and get prepared for a smashing wow effect. In a small series of posts I will provide information about the content needed at the Seminar.

Background Images

To build a great looking flash site, we need great images, namely for the backgrounds. Every tab in the menu can trigger its own background for the target page. The choice of pictures will depend on the theme of the site; your imagination is the limit.

The background acts like the setting or the stage for your content. It could be nature, places, spaces, most anything.

Some examples:

Meet me at the beach

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Meet me at the Beach

Meet me in front of the church

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Meet me in front of the Church

Meet me at the Ouzo Place

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Meet me at the Ouzo Place

Background Dimensions

Semiomantics Evolution will give the best surfing experience in full-screen view. The background image will therefore follow the size of the screen and its resolution and we need to load rather large pictures.

The above images come straight out of the digital camera or mobile phone. The raw file is over 3000 pixels wide. I have reduced them to about 1700 pixels wide and decreased the output quality to end up with background images of about 1700 x 1275 pixels and a weight of below 100 kb.

The above backgrounds can be seen at the Evolution Site HERE.

How to format background images as per above?

We will show step by step how to deal with a large image in order to format it for the purpose of the Evolution site at tonight’s call at yorGOtalk.

See you there.

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Google Top 10 Tuning

A site, which shows only the home page in Google’s search returns has a major problem, namely if it’s a WordPress powered site, since the site lives from its dynamic content.

Boruch Rappaport’s Consulting Site was such a case before it has been tuned by the Semiomantics Site Smith.

Google Top 10 Ranking

The high ranking was not a major problem on the site, since it is running on a Semiomantics script. Semiomantics scripts are tuned for high ranking.

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Boruch Rappaport Consulting

Google Indexing

The main problem was the indexing, whereas Google just stuck to the home page. We therefore needed to get the site re-indexed, however we wanted to choose the wayGoogle should index the site.

The Choice

For easier use and more flexibility we wanted to make sure that the site be indexed under the tags as well as under the category slugs. A shot at the chronological archive was to test our ability to optimize the indexing in an archive targeted way. This could be applied to any archive, such as date, author, tag, category and so on, however by over-stretching the scope you risk to over-publish the same post, which Google won’t appreciate.

The Results

After Semiomantics site tuning, this is the result (the selected search term serves only to demonstrate in a transparent way what’s actually being triggered on Google):

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Google Top 10

1   The Archive by date shows as intended.

2   The most important: the single post page.

3 – 6 Under more results, you get first the tag ‘boruch rappaport’, then some other tags

7  Finally another archive based on the date, this time for another post.

Semiomantics Site Tuning Services

Optimized indexing is a pre-requisit for top ranking under the targeted key-phrases. Semiomantics tuning services are focusing on each customer’s needs and targets. Sometimes the results show up very rapidly, others, like in the present case it may take 2 or 3 weeks to reach the high impact as demonstrated above.

For site tuning, contact Semiomantics to discuss your project.

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Microsoft Office 2010 PowerPoint

Yesterday’s Ycademy online workshop focused on Microsoft Office 2010 – PowerPoint. The Goal was to create a small slide show and to convert it into multiple formats, such as images or movies.

Here below a sample.

PowerPoint 2010 Slides

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More Astir Beach Vouliagmeni Mist

Subsequent to a comment on my facebook, here are more Astir Beach Mist images from sunny Vouliagmeni:

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Astir Beach Mist 3

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Astir Beach Mist 4

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Astir Beach Mist 5

Enjoy!

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Custom Book Cover Design

My earlier post about Book Cover Design triggered immediate feedback. Of course the two samples were smashing and I understand authors who would like to see their work wrapped up in such prestigious way.

I also understand book cover designers to get some insight about how to custom design an eye-catching book cover.

Custom Book Cover Design with Bianca Gubalke

Tomorrow night at 7 pm London time Bianca Gubalke will present a session: “Custom Book Cover Design” at Ycademy, the daily online Training at YorgoTalk.

Here is another Custom Book Cover Draft by Bianca, this time for Besma Bashier:

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Book Cover Designers

Don’t miss tomorrows session at Ycademy!

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Astir Beach Vouliagmeni

More samples with Photoshop: how about some frames? Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni is a nice place and the images deserve privileged treatment.

Have a look at the below samples, which have been produced with Photoshop and Art Suite by AKVIS, a great plug-in which moves Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni into the right light.

Astir Beach Vouliagmeni Images

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Photoshop Ycademy

When 10 days ago we started the Photoshop Ycademy for YORGOO and Ycademy members, the program outline looked like a huge task. Today we see, how much can be accomplished within little time by ordinary people making extraordinary efforts. Tonight’s training will be a clean up session to finish up with some basics and the implementation of more action scripts, namely to accomplish more day to day tasks.

Book Covers, CDs, DVDs and more

Last night’s session was dedicated to product wrappers; it’s all about the look! Great stuff was created and I am looking forward to see some of it on Google Top 10 Images. While we have shared with participants some impressive actions, we are preparing two Photoshop Packs containing some interesting stuff I have on my computer and which I find useful for professional use of Photoshop. Here below a gallery of some sample images I did in just a few minutes; hope you enjoy! See you tonight at 7 pm London at Yorgotalk!

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Yorgotalk

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Bianca's Book

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Brenda Baker Tourism in NZ

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Gene Line's secret passion

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Laetitia Paris Hit Parade

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Larrie Perkins Best

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Nikos Advertizopoulos Ycademy Head Master Course

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SquYYYze Page

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Toni Leuenberger Computer Security

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Ute Schaedler Affiliate Bible

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Healthy Eating with Ute Schaedler

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Fine Art by Yorgo Nestoridis

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website

You may wonder why I change my website … again. As my site serves as a prototype and sandbox for new Semiomantics developments, I need to adjust some design features to anticipate WordPress 3.0 features as well as to experiment with advanced media handlers.

Also, and this is not a joke, I am no longer happy with the performance, since I have built into our recent customer sites a device which outperforms my own script and which cannot run on the present framework.

The Look of Semiomantics

The look of my personal site will not change substantially; it will be essentially black and gray on white with some rare and mostly invisible touches of red or blue.

The main change concerns the Home Page which will follow the trend of our recent WP Best developments: short page with just a few highlights and a dominant featured image leading to an important editorial.

From a design point of view, I will keep it minimalistic as usual in order to put the content into the center of the development, as you can see from the screen-shot below, where the image of Vouliagmeni is the visual center of attraction.

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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Site

The Fonts and Colors

I will play with different font combination and redesign my labels and banners using professional fonts on photoshop. As the site is extensively widgetized, there are about 15 places where labels and banners can be placed, right into the framework. Using different sets of banners and labels, designed in different styles, the site can change face with just a few mouseclicks without the need to touch anything which impacts on the performance.

While the site will remain in the black to white scale with some touches of red or blue, the banners and labels will fit in like skin elements while still being utilities.

For the time being I am still loading script elements. Tomorrow I will take care of the front page content.

See you then.

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How to build a local website, focusing on your town or city? WP Best City or Town Theme by Semiomantics is the answer! WP Best City or Town is not really a theme, it’s a concept for people who want to bring their town and activity to the internet. Semiomantics builds module based Town or City Blogs and CMS in function of the needs of the user.

The WP City Concept by Semiomantics

Every town is different and yet, they all have many common aspects when it comes to presenting and promoting the town, it’s business, events, local market and more. Surfing Google and looking for town sites, you will notice that many towns exist only through rather boring, sterile tourism related directories or politically hyper correct official sites and blogs. Nothing you really want to look at. There are exceptions of course, but chances are that your town is lousily represented on the internet and the people of the town are simply neglected in the equation.

At Semiomantics we have developed a strategic concept to bring towns or cities in front of an interested audience. At present we are testing the concept targeting the  community of Vouliagmeni in Greece.

Main Site: WP Best Town Blog

To start with, we use a basic destination CMS and Blog based on the WP Best Destination script by Semiomantics.

This allows us to post editorials about the Vouliagmeni, it’s people, things to do in Vouliagmeni, events, business, shopping, photo galleries, videos and so on. It’s also designed to offer visitors to Vouliagmeni compelling information about the best place on earth .

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My Vouliagmeni Main Site

The main site is tuned for high visibility and performance on Search Engines with the clear ambition to play a role on Google Top 10 under any Vouliagmeni related keyword.

Have a look at My Vouliagmeni Main Site.

Add-on Module: Real Estate and Property

The real estate market deserves special treatment. For this reason we have optimized a real estate module for high performance and built it straight into the main site.

A sample is here.

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Vouliagmeni real Estate Module

Add-on Module: Classifieds Directory

Directory scripts are known for limited performance compared to Semiomantics scripts. We have therefore developed the WP Best Classifieds Directory with Semiomantics. This is a stand alone CMS which can be visually integrated and strategically linked with the Main site.

Have a look at the Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory.

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Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory

Add-on Module: Shop

The shop concept is based on the WP Best Shop script from Semiomantics. The shop could sell Vouliagmeni related souvenirs, branded Tees or other accessories and more.

More about the shop later.

More Add-on Modules

More add-on modules are under development at Semiomantics. We will keep you posted.

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