Ycademy Online Seminar

Work­ing with the new Semi­oman­tics XO 2011 theme for Word­Press has proven to be a suc­cess and look­ing at the Christ­mas themes cre­ated on XO, the team has shown how well cre­ativ­ity can be trans­lated into visual real­ity on the base of the new Semi­oman­tics script.

Zo Nicholas cre­ated the above theme with a built in juke­box fea­tur­ing famous Christ­mas songs. The site is prob­a­bly tar­geted at her grand-son Oliver :-).

Ollie may enjoy to play with dif­fer­ent backgrounds:

A gif back­ground where Santa rolls his eyes …

Going green with a Christ­mas scene …

Greener …

there are lit­er­ally no lim­its and best of all, the mod­i­fi­ca­tions are just two or three mouse-clicks away.

I would agree with Ollie … the rolling eyes are the fun­ni­est feature!

Check it out from HERE.

Once brand­ing ele­ments are defined (color scheme, fonts, graph­ics, lay­out and even­tu­ally fea­tures), we need to be able to imple­ment the brand in dif­fer­ent envi­ron­ments. Word­Press has been our pri­mary play­ground, we have how­ever been devel­op­ing Flash web­sites ear­lier this year and we need to be able to brand those with the same cre­ativ­ity and pre­ci­sion as we cus­tomize WP.

Semi­oman­tics Evo­lu­tion has just been a first step and expand­ing the expe­ri­ence to Semi­oman­tics Evo 2 is just a nor­mal development.

In order to give the sem­i­nar extended con­tent we have decided to add to the orig­i­nal sched­ule the devel­op­ment of an Evo2 based web­site. Not that we didn’t have enough con­tent to fill the day :-), we will just com­press the con­tent and add Evo2 by start­ing the sem­i­nar with a close to life work­shop; here is how it works:

There are two groups of participants

1. Par­tic­i­pants who have fol­lowed our daily work­shops since the launch of XO 2011
2. Par­tic­i­pants who did not have the time to fol­low our daily exercises

The first hour of the Sem­i­nar will be a Work­shop where we exer­cise col­lab­o­ra­tion between cus­tomer and designer, whereas each par­tic­i­pant from Group 2 will work with 1 or 2 design­ers to fin­ish off the work on the author blog and or as the case may be, on the Con­sul­tant blog.

Bianca will com­mu­ni­cate the names of the mini teams later today, allow­ing you to antic­i­pate by con­tact­ing each other and even­tu­ally exchange and or for­ward images, brand­ing ele­ments, access codes and so on.

The sec­ond hour of the Sem­i­nar will be spent look­ing at and dis­cussing the work accom­plished. We will have a crit­i­cal look at the work of the design­ers as well as at the ‘customer’s’ behav­ior and we will judge the work in func­tion of the fol­low­ing criteria:

1. Most impor­tantly: has the mis­sion been accom­plished in the set time frame
2. Func­tion­al­ity and usabil­ity of the site
3. Over­all look and feel of the site
4. Con­tent

The rest of the time will be allo­cated to Evo2.

Evo2 needs to be seen in the con­text of XO in as much as we aim for an inte­gra­tion of Flash with Word­Press (and or the other way around) on the long run.

1. Under­stand­ing the struc­ture of Evo2
2. Plan­ing the site: which ele­ments do you want to use and which style/branding do you want to apply?
3. Prepar­ing the mate­ri­als (Brand­ing ele­ments and con­tent ele­ments — namely images and even­tu­ally video)
4. Edit­ing the Con­tent (crop­ping or edit­ing images and graph­ics and prepar­ing text and other media)
5. Edit­ing the XML files
6. Load­ing to server

Finally we will enjoy look­ing at the var­i­ous cre­ations which round up our year with a real firework!

From the above you see that we have an extremely busy sched­ule and we will need to fin­ish it within the given time. Team-work is there­fore in demand — those who fin­ish faster will help those who have slower lines; we will con­tinue to work as teams like at the begin­ning of the Sem­i­nar. One of the main busi­ness aspects we exer­cise this way is to deliver in time!

Good mood, cre­ativ­ity, Pho­to­shop where avail­able and loads of good pic­tures (media).

We will load Evo2 to your Ycad­emy sand­box for the pur­pose of the sem­i­nar and work from there.

I will load a list of ideal file sizes for pho­tos and media later today.

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Related posts:

1. Ycad­emy Online Sem­i­nar Jan­u­ary 2010
2. Ycad­emy Online Pub­lish­ing Seminar
3. News and Thanks­giv­ing Turkey for Ycad­emy Seminar
4. Word­Press Sem­i­nar by Ycademy
5. Ycad­emy Octo­ber Seminar

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