October 20th, 2010 → 7:40 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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To customize your WordPress based website, it is useful to have some knowledge about CSS. CSS stands for cascading style sheet:
“Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.” (Wikipedia)
I clear text: CSS defines the style and look of the web site and of its content.
On WordPress based sites styles are defined in an external file called style.css which is to be found in the Theme folder (wp-content/themes/the_theme/). Some themes use multiple style sheets, others offer an array of style sheets you can chose from (usually from the dashboard where you may select between different color schemes or looks).
The syntax is simple and consists of only 3 parts:
selector { property: value }
Each selector can have multiple properties and each property can have multiple values.
The property and value are separated by a colon; they are contained within curly brackets. Multiple properties are separated by semi-colons.
Multiple values are separated by commas and if a value contains more than one word we surround it with quotation marks.
body{
background:#eaeaea;
font-family:Tahoma,"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
}
Nested elements inherit the properties of the containing element. The font from the above example will be inherited by all elements contained in the body, unless you make specific changes, for example for headings (usually titles and sub-titles):
h1,h2,h3,h4{
font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman", serif;
}
From this example you see that we apply the style to multiple elements, by sticking them into one selector, whereas the elements are separated by commas.
You can add comments to your style sheet for explanatory notes.
/*My comment*/
Start your comment with a forward slash and then an asterisks and end it with an asterisks followed by a forward slash.
If you have followed to this point, you have understood the basics and the logic behind the syntax of css. We need now to learn some more about the terminology used by CSS to define values, properties and selectors before attacking our style sheet. But that’s another topic.
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October 19th, 2010 → 3:56 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Here we go the wait is over all you Huarache heads need to wait no more !! Nike load its Nike Zoom Huarache Trainer with a new White/Black/Red colorway into the sneakers’ marketing. It features a white leather upper base with a black/red inner bootie, a red/black midfoot strap, and a red midsole. A white quasi-herringbone outsole with red and black hits round out the shoe. Includes a heel Zoom Air unit. You know how we do at Global !!
October 19th, 2010 → 2:45 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
We at Global Sports have already previewed many upcoming colorways of the Air Jordan Flight 45 High, including a True Blue edition and a “White/Khaki” variation, and we now have a complete look at all of the styles of Jordan Brand’s high-top sneaker that are set to release in the Spring of 2010. There are expected to be five colorways of the Flight 45 releasing in the upcoming months. The first pair yields a white upper with purple and black accents, while the second sneaker hosts a white upper with khaki and brown accents. The third variation features a grey upper with marina blue and brown accents, while the fourth sneaker has a white upper with true blue and grey accents. The final Air Jordan Flight 45 High yields a obsidian base with blue and grey accents
Air Jordan Flight 45 High
Colorway: White/Varsity Red-True Blue-Cement Grey
Release Date: May 2010
Style #: 384519-106
Price: £95.00
October 18th, 2010 → 6:03 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
The new Semiomantics Author Blog development is based on the famous Thesis theme. While all Thesis options are available, the Semiomantics version of Thesis offers all performance related advantages of Semiomantics scripts.
The Semiomantics Author Theme based on Thesis can take most any look whereas the most evident are
Semiomantics Author can become
In fact your imagination is the limit! This is of course good news for web designers and site developers working with customers (end-users), since the basic script is the same for all possible applications. Learning to deal with Thesis enables beginner developers to play in the pro league. For this reason we have integrated the concepts of Thesis in our Ycademy schedule.
As the Author Theme is based on Thesis, all advantages of Thesis are available on the Author blog. The Semiomantics add-ons tweaks and scripts remain reserved to Semiomantics developers and will not be commented outside Semiomantics. However I will share Thesis related tips and tweaks on this blog with the purpose to serve also a wider audience of Thesis users.
The upcoming Ycademy Online Seminar will provide a thorough introduction to the Semiomantics Version of Thesis first and then implement customization. Customization will be developed in 3 different ways:
October 16th, 2010 → 11:04 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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The upcoming Ycademy seminar will constitute a Milestone in Ycademy’s Blogging history. A new era will commence starting next week-end in as much as our scripts are concerned as well as the professionalism of Ycademy Pro’s Editing and Publishing.
With WordPress 3 designers take advantage of new features and users will be able to easily modify and tweak the behavior of the script, the look of the website and the surfing experience. At Semiomantics we have prepared for Ycademy pros the most incredible Webmaster Pack:
1. The bases of the new site is a framework which is tuned for optimized performance. This framework can be completed either just by Skins or Child Themes. In the future you will never need anything else than this one single framework to build the most smashing sites.
2. The Ycademy Seminar will deal with the new WordPress features as well as with all the possibilities we have to apply custom design to the websites. We finally will customize each participants Authority site.
3. The Ycademy Seminar is only the beginning of what may become a long journey for those interested in customization or in selling Semiomantics Authority Sites. In fact, the possibilities are limited to your imagination only. Subsequent to this Seminar we may add some special meetings for designers who would like to base a whole business just on the new Framework.
All Semiomantics Themes will also in the future do what they are known for: Performance.
The difference is just that the new Frameworks on WordPress 3 allow for more feature rich sites to improve the visitors experience. Also, many features which in the past were the reserved tasks of web designers, become accessible to the end user, in as much as the editing process has been expanded with variables allowing to intervene on lay-out, backgrounds, fonts and most any style element on an individual post or page base.
Also from a set-up and configuration point of view, Semiomantics makes it easy in as much as set-up and configuration will be taken care of by Semiomantics, assuring correct indexing and listing by Google and other Search Engines.
Designers who serve customers, may create static content as per user’s needs in the most personalized way, using for example static pages for impressive product presentations, splash pages or media portfolios.
In as much as I am aware of, the Semiomantics framework offers as before the only eCommerce solution based on WordPress with a fully optimized site structure where Blog and Commerce interact and interlace perfectly and perform at the same pace as our most popular arm, the Semiomantics XO.
Semiomantics will continue to update and service Semiomantics XO, NewsCast, Tabloid and the derivative products thereof. The YORGOO Blaster and the YORGOO Booster will be re-edited for the purpose of the new YORGOO Pro sites.
Consider the Seminar as an annual must to keep your High Performance Engine in shape, updated and ready for future expansion. A website is first of all a tool you need to communicate online; it’s a tool you use to present and sell your services and products. There are a few billion web pages out there but only few make it to objective visibility; the others need paid advertising to grab at least some attention.
Meaningful monthly advertising budgets hit you way more than the maintenance of your authority site. The cost for custom websites has dramatically increased in recent years; the reason is in the rapidly evolving technology its increased complexity. Also, as the average speed of our lines increase, we can deliver much more and better content in less time which has increased customers’ demand for more interesting features on a website.
The impact of the development is huge: we need to build professional websites which can handle interactive functions and media alike. We also need to be able to host such sites and we need to be able to make such sites available at a reasonable price.
At Ycademy we are at the forefront of development seeking permanently the best available bases for future development. As we are not married with any particular developer, we work with the best at any given time to provide the best available products to Ycademy Pros.
The upcoming Seminar will take our WordPress related path to profitability to a new level and with it all participants knowledge, know-how and performance, which in the end of the day will make the day of our customers.
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October 15th, 2010 → 4:46 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Mitchell & Ness were the original hat makers back in the day and were at the forefront of the hat game but as fasion changed and the inroduction to fitted caps were introduced it knocked off the Snapback hat off its perch and changed the hat trend. But Mitchell & Ness have revived their label and are starting to relive the glory days, the have released some outrageous colours with some crazy designs. The caps are usually based on NFL or NBA teams and usual display the teams colours on the hat with the teams logo. The revival has started as the new fasion shows that snapbacks have re-appeared and the old skool look from back in the 80’s is back so dont miss out and just one question which team are you sporting?
October 15th, 2010 → 12:17 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Two years after its last retro release, Nike’s Infrared Air Max 90 makes another return for 2010. One of the brand’s more iconic runner designs, paired along the lines of the Air Max 97 and 95, the 90 is surely a welcome addition to this year’s plethora of timeless drops.
As many of you know, The Air Max 90 has become quite the icon since it’s debut in 1990. It’s the second running shoe created by Tinker Hatfield that displays a Visible Air Window on it’s exterior. No matter how many times the original Infrared colourway sees a retro release, it’s re-arrival is always welcomed with open arms.
October 14th, 2010 → 6:42 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Just a few screen-shots and links for the most recent Semiomantics Optimization of a bold WordPress Newspaper.
The WordPress header is one of the most important elements of our Ycademy Times site. The first impression counts and while we work it (photo)graphically, quick access to information and navigation are the main focus.
More important, the invisible header code from where we guide bots through the site.
Focus is on 4 categories on the right, while the vertical accordion on the left may attract the eye as well with bold images. There is also space left for a news feed from an associated site.
A similar layout we find in the
but, this time we inverse the layout: the featured categories move to the left:
The interest of Semiomantics Optimized WP Newspaper’>
The interest of Semiomantics Optimized WP NewspaperThere are many WordPress newspaper themes out there and many of them are very attractive; however, most of them will never perform in any significant way on search engines. This is the third WordPress Newspaper script optimized by Semiomantics (the previous ones are YORGOO Press and NewsCast). Time will prove that this new site will perform as well as its sister scripts, simply because the important part for performance is the Semiomantics Optimization and the way Semiomantics signed sites communicate with bots.
The site which is tested by Ycademy for the first time since yesterday when it went live, is a nice alternative to other newspaper scripts namely for people who like editing since it offers many different ways to display content in an attractive way.
But that’s not all: personally I like it because it’s at the same time a lazy man’s solution in as much as it pulls in syndicated content in a smashing way (for redistribution). Images importad via feed are automatically thumbnailed here!
I am thinking of using this script as an author blog as well, since it offers the possibility to represent on the home page all the main categories of my site … in a bold way. Time permitting I will customize the site for the use as a personal site just to have a sample in my portfolio.
Of course you want to know about performance: that is not a matter of the theme or design, for as long as the code is clean. The Semiomantics Optimization is in charge for quick and efficient delivery to destination.
The Ycademy Times site has been set up yesterday at the same time when the sub-domain has been registered. Today the site flirts with Google Top 10 (no, I won’t tell you on which keyword this time, bust as you can see, it’s in very good company beating my main site :-)).
The interest is in the quick indexing and listing by Google, but that’s another story.
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October 11th, 2010 → 7:17 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Here below you will find the schedule of Ycademy till end of 2010. Before entering into the details, let me put the program into the wider context of our development.
There are a few major events ahead of us:
In October we will finish up with NewsCast where not yet done and then work on the future corporate image of Semiomantics; this means for parties interested in being part of Semiomantics, to build a personal image and presentation according to semiomantics standards and guidelines. Bianca is working with you on these pages to start with on the new Semiomantics EVO site.
The Ycademy October Seminar will bring us a big step ahead in as much as our WordPress related knowledge is concerned. On the example of the new Author Blog we will become familial with new design, editing and publishing standards which will slowly but surely become standards on WordPress Blogs and CMS.
This is an extremely important Seminar for all who wish to do custom design and website development. Also, all participants will end up with a brand new Author Site built according to the highest standards and customized during the Seminar.
The last October week will be reserved to do some post-seminar work if we are not able to handle the whole curriculum during the week-end.
Between the 1 of November and the November Seminar, there are 20 calls. We will build 20 products in 20 calls. These will be Semiomantics products you may sell directly from your store.These products will also constitute a solid base for your portfolio. This 20 calls – 20 products will be a spectacular exercise!
To be able to work efficiently we will need to have an training site which will be provided by Ycademy – you will get a sandbox site at Ycademy net which we will set up by November for each participant.
The goal is to get better and faster and more flexible with theme customization and to experience the joy of being able to tweak any theme to customer needs. The reason for this mega exercise is in the increasing cost of site development and design as the competition gets rougher and as we need to be able to build sites with a unique look, touch and feel in useful time.
The November Seminar
The Seminar will have to deal with the consolidation of the work done in November and will culminate in building and setting up a personal portfolio, linked to the Shop, the Consultant site as well as to the Author site. The seminar will finally put the pieces and bits together to end up with a professionally looking online business.
After the seminar I expect some post-seminar sessions to take place to finalize some details.
December will be focused on the new YORGOO Network. A special presentation will take place shortly with a preview of what will be coming. Important: all Semiomantics Partners will be exposed in YORGOO to help new subscribers; this concerns namely configuration and customization services.
In December Ycademy Pros will become familiar with the new YORGOO Network and test it. YORGOO will be a membership program with multiple membership levels and packages.
December Seminar
The December Seminar will deal with YORGOO and we will set up participants’ websites there. This will give participants an advance of 1 month before we officially go public with YORGOO. During that time we will prepare the internal products on offer for YORGOO users.
The Ycademy team as well as all those who have followed our seminars, have acquired tremendous knowledge. This knowledge is exploited individually and in the future also collectively by joining forces in various ventures such as:
As soon as YORGOO 2011 will be released we will again strictly separate between Ycademy calls and YORGOO calls, whereas the Ycademy Pros will take the leading role in the development of YORGOO 2011.
More than ever an online business needs professional websites and website development. Leading by doing will show that the impossible can become possible with the right attitude, means and efforts even for those who have limited financial resources and time.
Here are 5 main benefits Ycademy Pro provides:
Additional benefits
Ycademy Pro is a $30 per month subscription. New Pros will have to pay a one time set-up fee of $85 for the time being to get all the above infrastructure. This price will apply during the month of October 2010. Thereafter new Ycademy Pros will receive just the Ycademy.net Sandbox site.
We like to work on a personal bases. Please contact Bianca Gubalke (bianca(at)ycademy.com) or myself for more info.
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The November Seminar
The Seminar will have to deal with the consolidation of the work done in November and will culminate in building and setting up a personal portfolio, linked to the Shop, the Consultant site as well as to the Author site. The seminar will finally put the pieces and bits together to end up with a professionally looking online business.
After the seminar I expect some post-seminar sessions to take place to finalize some details.
Here are 5 main benefits Ycademy Pro provides:
October 10th, 2010 → 9:34 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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This tutorial shows step by step how to move your blog and domain to a new host.
Test your blog: access using : http://IP-Address/~username/addon-domain/
Just use the comment form here below for questions you may have.
We will charge $20 per blog to move. So if you have a domain with 10 add-on domains or sub-folders with each a WP blog in it, it will be $220. Also for large set-ups with DB beyond 500 MB and a folder structure beyond 1 GB, please ask for a quote.
PS: Moving your WordPress Blog to a new domain is another story. Please ask for a tutorial and or a quote.
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October 9th, 2010 → 8:18 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Nice commemorative shot by Google! Today’s logo shows once more where the creative people sit at Google, huh.
By the way, if you listen to the song and text, you wonder why Imagine has never become an MLM hymn :-). May be the music is not hype enough?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHCeUfoAnw
In any case, the call for “peace” and “joining the dream” is a universal one and who ever wanted at any given time, build a community, religious or just for the time of an LSD trip, has used the formula … from the good old Greeks of course (oh, the Chineese may have had it before, as well as the Egyptians and before them probably the cave men, and other Australopithecus).
The result is brilliant, the marketing works and the cash is flowing for ever as all of this remains … a dream.
PS: “In the book Lennon in America, by Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon commented that Imagine was an “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic [song], but because it’s sugar-coated, it’s accepted.” Wikipedia
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October 9th, 2010 → 11:13 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Semiomantics XO 2011 will be released shortly. The script has been overhauled for WP 3 and rendered more aggressive. Have a look at some of our test sites for the new XO:
Photo Media Stock
iPhone 4 Photos
Destinations Expo
Semiomantics XO Evolution
The XO-Evolution has a top accordion or slider to link directly with Semiomantics Evolution Galleries for example.
Semiomantics XO will remain as user-friendly as before. Changes will be documented for developers. As usual Multi-site License Holders will get access to all our test styles and features. Flash components for headers for example will be provided for free upon demand and per project.
Limitation: There will be as last year only 10 XO licenses developer and multi-site licenses.
Support: we will continue support for all XO versions.
Please announce your interest by mail to Bianca (Bianca(at)ycademy.com) to make sure you will get your pack.
In general the same as above applies mutatis mutandis.
NewsCast 2011 will be different from what is actually running on YORGOO Press; the YORGOO Press Version is WP 3 fit, while the 2011 edition will include some more WP 3 Functions, namely the WP 3 custom menu function.
Please announce your interest by mail to Bianca (Bianca(at)ycademy.com) to make sure you will get your pack.
Both multi-site Licenses, XO and NewsCast for multi-sites will be at $99 for renewals, new Licenses will be at $499.
Unrestricted Developer Licenses will retail at $1500.
For more info, please follow the blog and join our call on Monday, October 11, 2010 at 8 pm London or contact Bianca as per above.
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October 9th, 2010 → 8:11 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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In order to avoid downtime of the websites, it is important to keep scripts of WordPress, Plugins and as the case may be, themes updated. In the case of the News Paper where the data base is under more strain than on the Author blog, we use a plugin to optimize and to back up the data and files automatically.
For a quick result, install from your dashboard a new plugin, called BackWPup.
The plugin may trigger some comments about missing folders, such as the log folder. Just create the necessary folders via FTP and name them as per comment and CHMOD them to 777. Also make sure you add YOUR FTP access to the Full Back-up Job!
That’s it. Need help? Just leave a comment here below.
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DB Optimization Job
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October 8th, 2010 → 7:01 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Subsequent to last night’s long session here is an update concerning the configuration of the 125 x 125 pixels ads in the mid-sidebar on the home page as well as on the inner pages of the theme:
Load the images to server, either by uploading them to the media folder or into an image folder. On your theme configuration page scroll down to the Ads section and enter the FULL image URL including http://, not just the relative link starting with /wp-content/uploads/image.jpg for example.
Your ads will display on both sections on the home page as well as on the inner pages.
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The Ycademy October Seminar will focus on The third generation of our Author Blogs. The post defines the scope of the seminar as well as the terms and conditions to access the Seminar.
The seminar is available for Ycademy Pro Members only. The reason for this limitation is in the fact that “Author Blog” is a service delivered to Ycademy Pros only including high end hosting as well as the latest versions of Semiomantics commercial scripts.
October 23/24, 2010 as from 1 pm London time. Breaks as usual.
The above chapters will be mixed with the below Workshops:
None, all materials are provided.
The New Semiomantics Author Blog and CMS is the best WordPress based website out there, in my humble opinion. Each Ycademy Pro Site is built and equipped with the same features and scripts as the commercial version and customized for maximum visibility and impact on Search Engines.
Let’s make this another Great Edition of Ycademy Seminars!
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Having taken care of the most impressive features such as colors, background and fonts as per our previous post, we can now look at some hacks from the dashboard and on the php template files.
The first feature we notice is the choice of preset styles. Even if you count on customizing the style sheet, selecting a base close to where you want to go will make your task easier. Note that besides the choice of colors, you have always two style versions, one of them being “sans-”.
Sans stands for sans-serif and means that the style will use sans-serif fonts (Helveticam, Arial, Tahoma and such like), compared to serif fonts such as Times New Roman, Georgia and so on.
The YORGOO Times
To start with, just enable the sections for which you have content and grow as you advance. For example, just start with your top section and the photo gallery for example to rapidly populate your new website. Then you may add some videos and may be some ads.
The layout selector allows you to structure your home page to taste. Test it, try it and experiment with different settings.
This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page.October 3rd, 2010 → 3:22 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-publishing-1/we-are-the-semiomantics-world.Semiomantics, created based on needs arising from YORGOO, a free program for Home Business Builders has evolved to a top notch business, building the probably best WordPress based websites.
In fact, this has nothing to do with WordPress as Semiomantics can be applied to any website.
For our demo site of the new Semiomantics EVO we have chosen the famous song USA for Africa by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
May be we are not, but we contribute to make the bloggosphere a better world, no doubt! I am not a snob, or am I? In any case, I am fed up by all these ugly sites out there and statistics prove me right: a site needs to be sexy to be read and the yogurt like and minimalistic sites (like mine) are out, completely out! People just click them away since they would have to concentrate on content and who on earth wants to focus on content anyway?
Forget it, it’s about fun, entertainment, visual pleasure, music, video, … media all over!
If by any chance you are still reading, click me away and go to Semiomantics EVO to see what a sexy site has to look like. Listen to the song, read and surf and tell me: would you not like to have such a site to propagate your image, look and authority?
It’s a world of craftsmanship. A world where devoted people care about customers, their performance and success. Semiomantics has grown on the same base and with the same fertilizer as YORGOO: humans who care, professionalism and extremely performance oriented product design.
There is no hype and there is no exuberance but there is straight forward communication involving the customer all along the product development phase. There is time for talk and there is time for testing. There is care to details and there is the art of implementing the impossible!
Semiomantics is an Elite product for the best and for those who only want the best. Semiomantics is a signature applied to a site once it has proven to perform and to satisfy our unequaled design standards.
From smashing WOW-effects to minimalistic, sober elegance, semiomantics provides it all; have a look. It will depend on the designer of your project and you are free to choose, who will work with you on your design. But you will also see that every designer has his/her style and way of perceiving and translating perception into visual communication.
Look at the samples from Bianca Gubalke for example: professional design, visual effects and care for details! Any of her sites and works stick out from the crowd and make the sites special, very special.
I don’t know of any SEO company being as transparent as Semiomantics: we announce our goals BEFORE getting there and then we just do it. I don’t know of any product online with such a track-record as Semiomantics and I have never seen anything getting even close to Semiomantics in SEO in respect of WordPress based sites or even Flash.
Have a look at the kind of websites we propelled to Google Top 10 from here; these designs have all been tuned by Semiomantics to reach top performance on their respective keywords.
Sure you will find contracts at $4000 – $5000 per month to keep your site optimized. Semiomantics does it for a fraction and scores higher than its best competitors. Too bad we have ,such a limited capacity. On the other hand, we believe the performance of our customers is our best reference and in the fact, that we are a business where craftsmanship is, what makes the difference.
For as long as I will remain at the helm of Semiomantics, this attitude will not change and we will continue to build the best sites out there … at any price, for the benefit of our customers.
October 3rd, 2010 → 1:25 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/whats-the-weather-in-vouliagmeni.No need to comment much here: the issue is about Digital Photography and digital photo development. How about changing weather, mood and atmosphere with just a click of the mouse?
Join Ycademy and learn how to deal with your digital photos and how to give them that special touch which translates atmosphere into communication :-).
PS: Oh … if you made it till here: which is the original photo? Just comment to add your guess.
This page is wiki editable click here to edit this page.October 3rd, 2010 → 9:20 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Editing posts and customizing each post from a design point of view is easily achievable with WordPress 3 and a WordPress 3 capable theme. Additional features mean always also additional dangers: namely the danger to mess up clean code.
This post’s purpose is to test some of the customization features available on the future release of Semiomantics Code replacing XO. To see the effects you need to navigate to the original post on my site.
The site background can be adapted to the content of the post, by adding a custom class to the css style-sheet and by calling the class from the post editor. In this example I have used a large background photo 2000 x 15000 pixels with a weight of 100 Kb about.
Note that the same image is featured in the top right media box and attached to this post only.
I have attached to the post the above image which will be thumbnailed automatically by the script for various display purposes. The image is placed above the post text in this case.
Fonts and their colors can be customized. Note here blue ink with Times font-face.
More tests will have to follow before release of the script.
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