WordPress Seminar for Authors

At tonight’s pre-seminar call we will prepare the customization of the website, starting with color schemes and graphics. We will also distribute the new Semiomantics XO. Please look out for Bianca’s mail today.

Semiomantics XO Customization

Tonight as from 8 pm GMT we will start customizing our sites. First we will apply the preferred color scheme. Please make sure you know your color codes.

Then we will create a header graphic with the dimension 500 x 80 pixels.

Finally we will create back-ground graphics for the site and the sidebars.

While the images can be created with simple tools, I would prefer using Adobe’s Photoshop or equivalent. If you don’t have Photoshop installed, please download and install the free open-source equivalent GIMP. With Gimp you can edit Photoshop files (.psd) easily as well as adapt existing graphics with more precision than with Webgraphics Creator.

We will show step by step how to use GIMP for our needs during tonight’s work-shop.

How to Edit a back-ground image with texture

In fact, a back-ground can be just a color (color code in the css style sheet) or an image. Images usually are small and then tiled. For the purpose of the exercise we will use an image of the size of 8 x 8 pixels. The pixels are arranged to produce a grid or a hatch and colored according to taste.

Here are two examples:

The actual view on the site for the first example above would look like this:

Looks like fun, doesn’t it?

Tonight we will show you exactly how to do this. Join tonight’s Ycademy call at 8 pm GMT.

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.

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