New XO53 Theme for WordPress

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   Boruch Rappaport on January 9, 2011 at 7:21 pm

   Great stuff! Mean­while though, while we still have the flash com­po­nents, I ask: I have on my “do list” to replace the NextGen gallery on my author blog with one of our flash com­po­nents, nextgen is so expen­sive in CPU time, etc etc. Now that I am ready to do it, I thought to check it out with you: do the flash com­po­nents use THAT much less com­puter resources? Will I really be gain­ing some­thing mean­ing­ful with the replacement?

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     Yorgo Nestoridis on January 10, 2011 at 12:15 am

     Hi Boruch,

     when we rec­om­mended NextGen Gallery, Word­Press was by far not capa­ble to man­age, han­dle and tag images the way it is today. NextGen is a great image man­age­ment tool which has it’s price as you state: server resources, namely mem­ory.
     Also, NextGen makes sense if you dis­play loads of dif­fer­ent Gal­leries on your site and if you want to improve the seman­tics and style of dis­play in an easy way.
     Flash com­po­nents such as the com­po­nents we use on the home page or attached to the header are lim­ited in the sense that they are sta­tic dis­play ele­ments and do not give you any advan­tage from a seman­tic and SEO point of view. They are more a sort of an addi­tional attrac­tion of the site your vis­i­tors should appre­ci­ate from a visual point of view.
     NextGen is an image man­age­ment soft­ware while the flash com­po­nents improve the looks of the site more than any­thing else; sure the xml files are read­able by the bots but SEO is not the pri­mary objec­tive.
     Flash Com­po­nents will not replace NextGen if you use NextGen for what it has been writ­ten. If how­ever you use NextGen just to dis­play one Gallery throuhout your site (in the side­bar for exam­ple or attached to the header, then it does not make much sense to run NextGen. Your Flash Com­po­nents uses next to no server resources.

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   Zo Nicholas on January 6, 2011 at 6:43 pm

   A new vocab­u­lary to learn at the Ycad­emy trainings.…I see it will all be fun again!

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     Yorgo Nestoridis on January 7, 2011 at 1:14 am

     We just move on as inter­net devel­op­ment moves on .… the fun is to push our lim­its always further.

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   Bianca Gubalke on January 6, 2011 at 7:53 am

   Very inter­est­ing; pure advertising.

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     Yorgo Nestoridis on January 6, 2011 at 5:14 pm

     You may of course change the con­tent to some­thing more inter­est­ing such as art, pho­tog­ra­phy or the Kamasutra :-).