WP Best Old Fashion Theme

We have just added another great looking WordPress Theme to our showcase: the WP Best Old Fashion Theme! The style is inspired by old fashion ads and magazines as well as by the work of some great designers of the past and present.

Most importantly: underneath the beautiful face hides a roaring engine signed by Semiomantics. This guarantees the usual incomparable high visibility and performance of Semiomantics powered sites on Search Engines.

WP Best Old Fashion Theme Colors

The WP Best Old Fashion Script has been built in 3 basic colors of which only one per color will be commercialized and customized: Dark Blue, Dark Red and Dark Green.

Availability: directly from Semiomantics or through a Semiomantics Website Developer exclusively.

WP Best Old Fashion Theme Screen-shot

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WP Best Old Fashion Theme

The below details show the carefully designed skin:

The Test Site is HERE

PS: An add on shop is under development.

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.

Editing and Publishing Services

You asked for it, here it is: as its latest addition, WP Best eShop is now also offering Search Engine Optimized  Editing and Publishing Services.

Editing and Publishing Services

You have great content, articles, images, videos – why would you need a professional Editing and Publishing Service?

The fact is that you may have the finest and most beautifully written content… but we are on the Internet and all that counts is visiblity on Search Engines and Social Networks… so if you don’t see yourself where you expect to be, you want to urgently get a professional Editing and Publishing Service – or lose money and time. Lots of it.

Editing and publishing in a search engine optimized way is an Art, a Science.
Besides, the Internet changes, Google algorhythms change and trends change. This needs constant attention, flexibility and adaptation when it comes to posting on Web 2.0.

Is that what you wish to spend your time with? Probably not! Invest your time on focusing on your business and what you are good at and what makes you money. Collect the text material, images and whatever you want to put into your articles and posts, and then talk to a Semiomantics expert to get you the results in terms of Google rankings. Results as you see above and on many other posts on this blog.

Believe me… we see it every day: if you don’t know what you are doing, cheap is too expensive.

Semiomantics Experts

As qualified Semiomantics Expert s, we offer this service to you. You send the text and whatever content needs to be posted, we do the Editing and Publishing. Images included. Fast. Reliable. Off your shoulders and your mind – done!

As we monitor our performance on a daily basis and regularly publish the amazing results in form of Google screenshots, you find lots of continued proof on my Author Blog – posted, ranked – sometimes within a few minutes only… on Google Top 10 that is. Done!

Talk to Bianca

Prices are based on an hourly rate and vary based on the amount and complexity of the content/material under discussion.

Get in touch with me HERE to discuss and evaluate your needs and get a quote. Working hand-in-hand will be absolutely enjoyable; results are guaranteed!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing. Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY 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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You may have the finest content but if it’s not edited and published in a smart, targeted and search engine optimized way you will very probably not get the results you expect, meaning visibility on high Google rankings. Further to this, the Internet changes, Google algorhythms change and trends change. This needs constant attention, flexibility and adaptation when it comes to posting on Web 2.0.

If you don’t know what you are doing, cheap is too expensive. Read more…

You send content, we do the rest – fast & efficient

As a qualified Semiomantics Expert I can offer this service to you. You send the text and whatever content needs to be posted, I do the Editing and Publishing. Images included. Fast. Reliable. Off your shoulders and your mind – done!

As we monitor our performance on a daily basis and regularly publish the amazing results in form of Google screenshots, you find lots of continued proof on my Author Blog – posted, ranked – sometimes within a few minutes only… on Google Top 10 that is. Done!

Prices

Prices are based on an hourly rate and vary based on the amount and complexity of the content/material under discussion.

Talk to Bianca

Get in touch with me HERE to discuss and evaluate your needs and get a quote.

Minimalist Elegant Web Design

Subsequent to yesterday’s post about elegant web design, here are two sample sites I like particularly, namely because of the minimalistic approach. Of course, the blank space can be populated by customizing the design.

Elegant dark Web Design

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Elegant Web Design Home Page with a presentation slider

Preview the site HERE

Elegant white Web Design

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Elegant Web Design 2 - Home Page with a video clip

Preview the site HERE.

The two above referenced sites are designed for media presentation. Their multiple gallery modules can hold most any current media format. Media embedded into flash offers a better protection against content theft while allowing for good quality images.

These two designs, optimized by Semiomantics will shortly be available from our store. Web Designers and Web Site developers can modify any files as we pass on all source files (fla).

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.

Assessing the Competition

While I personally believe much more in Cooperation than competition, the fact is that when we create a commercial product or service for a specific market, assessing the competition is critical to establish whether there is a demand for what we intend to offer and a niche for us that promises to be profitable. Also, it allows us to see who else is in the same game… and who of those we most identify with in terms of an innovative edge that pulls us forward in our aspirations in a healthy way. Why not inspire one another and soar?!

In my specific case, “My Noordhoek” is not a commercial project as we discussed earlier, however, there is some excellent online material around and I had to spend some time comparing that respective content with what I have in mind with my new project – just to see whether I’m sitting on the right horse – barefoot or not!

Assessing the Competition

Assessing the competition is very much about asking oneself the right questions – questions customers, readers and interested parties would unconsciously ask as well. It’s just natural and we all do it every day. Questions like:

• What websites or blogs are regularly coming up when I type in the keywords I am targeting?
• Could I be better with “My Noordhoek”?
  
• Is there really a demand or interest for “My Noordhoek”? Or am I creating it in a pioneering effort?
  
• Do I have the knowledge and skills to accomplish my complex and time-consuming plans?
• What are ‘their’ real benefits offered and to what target market – compared with “My Noordhoek”?
• Are there any weaknesses I should avoid or translate into my strengths?
• Where am I different; i.e. what is my competitive advantage and how do I translate it so people go for my product?
  
• Do I really understand the people I am creating “My Noordhoek” for?
• Is my attitude that of a follower of trends or a future leader, setting standards?
• Am I part of a solution or am I part of a problem?
• Do I really know what my target audience needs, expects, wants, can afford?
  
• What solutions do I offer?
• Do I offer easy ways to communicate with me? Is my website interactive?
  
• Will “My Noordhoek”be visible on the Internet – meaning on Google Top 10 and on Social Networks?

My Noordhoek Project

My Noordhoek Project is representative for just any project – your’s or mine.

Having gone through my personal catalogue of questions above – which may well differ from your’s as I am not hooked to a commercial product here -, I must ensure that I . . .

• know exactly what the nature of my endeavour is and I must be able to explain it in simple terms.

• provide my target audience – the inner and outer circle – with something of value, something they may not exactly expect as it looks so different to what’s out there, however, to be convincing I will guide them through a discovery process that leads to what they want: satisfaction, joy or a solution in one or the other way.

• build on the trend that laptops and mobile phones will do the ‘talking’ and the ’showing’. They will be omni-present and speed up any process in terms of efficiency and simplicity. Therefore, I have to be present, findable and reachable – right there! High touch high tech YEBO!

• continuously observe the changing market to adapt and continue to consistently deliver my message in the best suitable and most appealing way.

• have a plan to follow and a way to present what “My Noordhoek” stands for, for whom it is and how it differs from what else is out there on the market.

Stay tuned; more about it in my next article!

Web Design Consulting

As you follow the website development of “MyNoordhoek Project” it may inspire and motivate you to start your own project at some stage.

If this is the case, please get in touch with me via Web Design Consulting to discuss your requirements and start the planning – as it all happens in the head first…

The script is not available at this stage but in pioneering mode. What is garanteed though is a smashingly media-oriented and dynamic website that will capture peoples’ attention.

For the moment it’s ‘work in progress’ or rather ‘work in evolution’- the first elaboration will take place at our monthly Ycademy Seminar on 27 and 28 March 2010.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing. Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY 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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Elegant Web Design

Elegance and Luxury are the guidelines of a new web site I am setting up to be added to our Elegant  Web Design portfolio. The product addresses people or brands who are looking for a customized high-end media driven web site.

Building such sites is time consuming and demanding, namely when it comes to the media production and their formatting for high quality online use.

At present we have two sites under construction: a dark gray and a white design. The new product line will be called Protos Magas, a Greek term for the ultimate top notch quality.

Dark Elegance

Elegant Web Design often makes heavy concessions when it comes to SEO performance. In collaboration with the Semiomantics Site Smith we have developed technology to reach high visibility with flash driven web sites which compensates for the lack of readability of flash embedded content by Search Engines .

Here some first screen-shots of the new media driven Elegant Web Design.

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Elegant Web Design Home Page with a presentation slider

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Elegant Web Design Media Slides with text

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Elegant Web Design News Section

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Elegant Web Design Audio Library

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Elegant Web Design expanded gallery

More later.

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.

Defining Target Audiences

Once you know what the topic or theme of your website or blog is – as “My Noordhoek” is the umbrella of the project I am planning here – the next step is defining Target Audiences.

After all: you want to create and write something for somebody who has an interest in what you’re doing, who feels involved, loves what you do.

So who are you painting your picture for?

Defining Target Audiences

Defining one’s target audience or target audiences – which can be certain age groups, gender, singles or couples, people with certain cultural backgrounds or common interests and the like – is of prime importance especially when it comes to marketing and advertising a product or service.

While “My Noordhoek” is no commercial website but endeavours to capture the fine spirit of its in many cases highly qualified people who have chosen to live in harmony with Nature and the flow of Life, I have to answer that same question in order to give the target public what it possibly doesn’t expect, but what it can identify with and feel happy with.

My Noordhoek Project

In that sense, My Noordhoek Project addresses two main target publics:

1. The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle are people who live in Noordhoek, who are an integral part of the area, its rich history, its colourful fabric. The Noordhoek Community. People who run businesses, restaurants, shops, vineyards, hotels, schools, nurseries. . .  or who offer their professional services in Noordhoek. They are artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, designers, artisans, therapists, estate agents, yoga teachers, waiters, instrument builders, riding judges, geologists, farmers, politicians, veterinarians . . .
They are young and they are old and from all walks of life. What combines them is… Noordhoek. Their Noordhoek. My Noordhoek.

My Noordhoek is dedicated to this “Inner Circle”; it’s a mirror, a reflection… and as I am discovering more and more of the magic of this place as I proceed with this project, they may suddenly look at themselves and see their strength and beauty for the very first time. A beauty from within, from the heart, the soul… where there is unity and… Oneness.

2. The Outer Circle

The Outer Circle are people who visit Noordhoek, adventurers who plan to do so… or who will be inspired by the visual beauty and content of “My Noordhoek” on the Internet to do so.

My Noordhoek will ‘talk’ to these visitors from South Africa, the African continent or the tourists from abroad.

On “My Noordhoek” they will be presented with captivating visuals and videos to get a feeling for Noordhoek and its rainbow meltingpot of over 2000 community individualists, what they offer, present, stand for and are up to… in other words :

~ what happens when and where,
~ who to meet or talk to,
~ what to do,
~ where the music plays,
~ where to stay,
~ what to find where,
~ where to get what,
~ where to eat and dine and get the best wine (…of course from the area!) …
~ how to keep the kids occupied in a safe place,

… and definitely how to find their way easily through the natural, the real, the sophisticated and the sublime to whatever treasures, pleasures, places and activities interest them.

And yet, My Noordhoek will not be a form of directory nor carry any advertising.

My Noordhoek wants people from within and from without to meet in a natural, joyful and trusting way – in the spirit of Oneness. From there, anything can develop . . .

3. Noordhoek Home

Finally, My Noordhoek understands itself as a dynamic platform to keep expatriates and Noordhoek afficinados in touch with home – Noordhoek Home.

My Noordhoek is not about Ownership; it’s about Stewardship. It’s about YOU!

Stay tuned; more about it in my next article!

Web Design Consulting

As you follow the website development of “MyNoordhoek Project” it may inspire and motivate you to start your own project at some stage.

If this is the case, please get in touch with me via Web Design Consulting to discuss your requirements and start the planning – as it all happens in the head first…

The script is not available at this stage but in pioneering mode. What is garanteed though is a smashingly media-oriented and dynamic website that will capture peoples’ attention.

For the moment it’s ‘work in progress’ or rather ‘work in evolution’- the first elaboration will take place at our monthly Ycademy Seminar on 27 and 28 March 2010.

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My Noordhoek Project

It’s a while since I wanted to do some form of a portrait capturing the special spirit and vibrations of the unique place I have the privilege to live in: Noordhoek, 30 km from Cape Town city center, right at the tip of South Africa… and as we are developing brand-new avenues in Ycademy as concerns web design including flash, let me get to it right NOW before it’s gone, over and forgotten … and let’s give it a simple working title: “My Noordhoek Project”.

It’s a project in Evolution in many ways as you will see. . . and as I photographed the other day… nomen est omen!

A project is something that is in development although clearly defined and with a clear focus, something that creates substance for a basic platform… from where it evolves… gathers momentum, complexity and a wealth of new and exciting content during the process. Ideally, it becomes an avalanche of possibilities, creative influences and ideas all woven into the fabric of the basic theme.

My Noordhoek Project

So what will “My Noordhoek Project” be about?

Having worked on the Internet for over a decade – initially to write, adapt, change and discuss my screenplays and scripts for documentaries, industrial films and the movie industry for the overseas market … and then as a very involved Co-Founder of successful online enterprises and educational programs (eg. Ycademy) initiated by Internet wizzard Yorgo Nestoridis – , I am looking forward to tackle a completely new as well as independent project where I can showcase and capture what I consider unique, too precious not to be shared or ultimately lost as our profit-oriented and fast-moving modern way of life is taking over what is ‘natural’, what is ‘organic’, what is ‘real’ without masquerade, original, interconnected, extremely humane, funny, bizarre and thus… vulnerable.

Besides the new and flashy Semiomantics Evolution theme crafted by Yorgo Nestoridis, I will be using predominantly my own visual material in form of digital photography, powerpoint-based slides converted into movies plus music, sound and my voice as a narrator. . . and what those I include and present can provide me with to choose from for the benefit of the whole and with absolute freedom.

I imagine this website or blog as a visual feast dedicated to the inner circle – meaning the Noordhoek Community itself – as well as the outer circle, meaning people from outside who are visiting Noordhoek, perhaps for the first time, possibly from overseas… especially if they are being attracted to this magic place through “MyNoordhoek” the blog on Google Top 10.

So the first thing I have to ask myself is: what does my target audience – in other words the inner as well as the outer circle – expect? What gets their attention? What do they enjoy, love. . .?

This will be the material for my next article; stay tuned!

Web Design Consulting

As you follow the website development of  “MyNoordhoek Project” it may inspire and motivate you to start your own project at some stage.

If this is the case, please get in touch with me via Web Design Consulting to discuss your requirements and start the planning – as it all happens in the head first…

The script is not available at this stage but in pioneering mode. What is garanteed though is a smashingly media-oriented and dynamic website that will capture peoples’ attention.

For the moment it’s ‘work in progress’ or rather ‘work in evolution’- the first elaboration will take place at our monthly Ycademy Seminar on 27 and 28 March 2010.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing. Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY 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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Build your Flash Intro

After the 3D logo session last Friday, we have another unique session in store: Build your Flash Intro tonight at Ycademy.

Join from yorGOtalk at 7 pm London time (GMT).

Flash Intro

A flash Intro can be used in multiple ways, one of them being product marketing. Also, the format of the media is swf and can therefore easily be embedded into the flash website we are building at the March Online Seminar.

Have a look at a DEMO FLASH HERE.

http://yorgonestoridis.com/media/intro/intro.swf

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.

Learning Basics of HTML

When you first start to do things on the internet you are quite happy to follow existing programs getting the feel of how it all operates and learning how to find your way around. Then comes the time when you want to start branching out a little on your own, doing things for yourself. This is the time when you need to learn some basics, like learning the ABC of the internet, learning some Basics of  HTML.

Some people are put of by this notion of learning something new thinking its really difficult, however HTML really isn’t that hard. Remember when you first  stared to do sums at school? well once you understood how it all worked it was all easy. HTML is pretty simple.

Basics of HTML

HTML stand for Hyper Text Markup Language. The language is easy, its plain english.The words we use everyday. To get these words to be visible in a browser we need to give the browser instructions to read them. The instructions are the HTML,  this is what the browser looks for to display correctly what you have written.

HTML Tags

Instructions come in the form of a series of  tags <tag>. Each tag gives an instruction. Each tag is a keyword surrounded by brackets <tag>. Its very much like the training soldiers receive to stand to attention and then to be at ease. You give the command, then you close or finish the command. So we have an opening <tag> and a closing </tag>. The / tells us its the closing tag instruction.
 
Just learning a few basic tag functions will help you with some very basics tasks online like inserting the html code for a banner for example. I remember myself the frustration I had when trying to do this when I first ventured out online without first learning some Basic HTML. Had I first learnt some of the basics I wouldn’t have wasted an hour or two in frustration.

Ycademy Basic HTML

Having a handy reference that you can refer to at anytime, like the ‘Ycademy Basic HTML’ is so useful, and you can return to it time and time again till you are more proficient in what you do. Printing out a copy and keeping it handy I personally found was easier. I was educated in the era when printed matter was all there was so old habits die hard.

Author: Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing. Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader or<a href=" Subscribe by Email.

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