Adobe messes with users, customers and its shareholders When Adobe announced the exclusive creative cloud subscription model, yours truly felt like shouting against it during the daily call. In fact, Adobe’s arrogance will cost a heck of a lot of money: to the company, the shareholders, and to users who will get less for more money. While… Read more →
XR – New Responsive Universal WordPress Theme Semiomantics is releasing its new flagship theme, the XR for WordPress. The time is right to move on and to take advantage of the most recent WordPress and browser developments. Influenced by the broad acceptance of HTML5 and CSS3, boilerplate developments and bootstrap as well as easy outsourcing… Read more →
Ycademy Seminar February 2013 The upcoming Ycademy Online Seminar will focus on Search Engine Optimization and Loading Speed of self-hosted WordPress based websites, and particularly on sites powered by Semiomantics developments. While WordPress remains one of the most popular platforms for online publishing, the way it needs to be configured for optimized impact has changed over the… Read more →
Some ideas for a YORGOO Logo YORGOO is a platform where a multitude of inputs unite to a whole new entity. Inspired by this idea and in respect of the imposed color scheme I did the following sketch which can work out at very small size for example as a favicon. The graphic represents well… Read more →
YORGOO Limited Logo Contest Last Friday, we announced the contest for the creation of the YORGOO Limited Logo and Name Branding. The rules and expectations are as follows: YORGOO Limited Logo The logo should satisfy the following basic criteria: The logo should be: simple yet understandable memorable timeless Scalable and functional Relevant and appropriate What is YORGOO?… Read more →
New Servers and new IP Addresses During this week-end we have been preparing the migration of our hosting accounts to new servers which are now ready. There are multiple reasons for the move, above all the goal to provide continued high performance WordPress hosting. We take the opportunity to move towards new horizons by building a new,… Read more →
Mobile Apps Apps will be the big topic of 2013, mainly because there is a major shift of web traffic towards the mobile web and consequently traffic harvesting will be more efficient through apps than through browser based websites. The Ycademy January Seminar will focus on Apps Basics and different ways to convert WordPress blogs… Read more →
Application and Applications For the year end, we have a special idea summing up our work; 2012 has been a busy and intensive year indeed. Having learned to use important Applications, such as Illustrator and InDesign and having evolved in Photography and photo editing for web and print, we will look into some practical application… Read more →
Ycademy Net goes on Maintenance Tomorrow Subsequent to the Ycademy Seminar which took place this week-end we will perform a major maintenance session on Ycademy Net as from Tonight. Here are the sheduled tasks: 1. We will delete all user accounts belonging to inactive users The reason is, that inactive accounts and sites are not… Read more →
WordPress and Blurb Semiomantics is ready with an XO release candidate for WordPress 3.5. We will therefore look into the latest WP developments and the theme updates. Also Blurb has released the integration software for InDesign, which provides smashing professional editing features for off and on line book publishers. Here is the Schedule for the… Read more →