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Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress

This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools
2. New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments

Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools

With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through the new features and test them in our hands on workshops.

If you are not yet in possession of Photoshop CS6 Extended, get the trial version from HERE

Besides the Plugin series for Photoshop, OnOne provides a standalone suite of photo editing tools. This suite traces a perfect workflow for photo editing outside Photoshop. We will work with the tool and test out some of the smashing features.

If you don’t have this program, you can download a 30 day trial version from HERE

New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics XO on WordPress

Fed up by the vulnerabilities and bugs caused by free plugins? There is some great stuff available out there with clean code provided by professional developers. At Semiomantics we have selected a series of professional plugs for the purpose of the seminar and further developments which we will implement.

Also, in view of the most recent hack attacks on WordPress we will spend time on maintenance issues, securing WordPress based websites as well as on understanding the most recent cPanel, namely the security related features.

More information by mail and during our daily sessions this week.

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1. Ycademy Online Seminar Photo Publishing with Evo for WordPress
2. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
3. Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012
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5. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress

This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools
2. New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments

Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools

With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through the new features and test them in our hands on workshops.

If you are not yet in possession of Photoshop CS6 Extended, get the trial version from HERE

Besides the Plugin series for Photoshop, OnOne provides a standalone suite of photo editing tools. This suite traces a perfect workflow for photo editing outside Photoshop. We will work with the tool and test out some of the smashing features.

If you don’t have this program, you can download a 30 day trial version from HERE

New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics XO on WordPress

Fed up by the vulnerabilities and bugs caused by free plugins? There is some great stuff available out there with clean code provided by professional developers. At Semiomantics we have selected a series of professional plugs for the purpose of the seminar and further developments which we will implement.

Also, in view of the most recent hack attacks on WordPress we will spend time on maintenance issues, securing WordPress based websites as well as on understanding the most recent cPanel, namely the security related features.

More information by mail and during our daily sessions this week.

Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress

This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools
2. New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments

Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools

With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through the new features and test them in our hands on workshops.

If you are not yet in possession of Photoshop CS6 Extended, get the trial version from HERE

Besides the Plugin series for Photoshop, OnOne provides a standalone suite of photo editing tools. This suite traces a perfect workflow for photo editing outside Photoshop. We will work with the tool and test out some of the smashing features.

If you don’t have this program, you can download a 30 day trial version from HERE

New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics XO on WordPress

Fed up by the vulnerabilities and bugs caused by free plugins? There is some great stuff available out there with clean code provided by professional developers. At Semiomantics we have selected a series of professional plugs for the purpose of the seminar and further developments which we will implement.

Also, in view of the most recent hack attacks on WordPress we will spend time on maintenance issues, securing WordPress based websites as well as on understanding the most recent cPanel, namely the security related features.

More information by mail and during our daily sessions this week.

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Seminar Photo Publishing with Evo for WordPress
2. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
3. Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012
4. Ycademy Online Seminar
5. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress

This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools
2. New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments

Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools

With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through the new features and test them in our hands on workshops.

If you are not yet in possession of Photoshop CS6 Extended, get the trial version from HERE

Besides the Plugin series for Photoshop, OnOne provides a standalone suite of photo editing tools. This suite traces a perfect workflow for photo editing outside Photoshop. We will work with the tool and test out some of the smashing features.

If you don’t have this program, you can download a 30 day trial version from HERE

New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics XO on WordPress

Fed up by the vulnerabilities and bugs caused by free plugins? There is some great stuff available out there with clean code provided by professional developers. At Semiomantics we have selected a series of professional plugs for the purpose of the seminar and further developments which we will implement.

Also, in view of the most recent hack attacks on WordPress we will spend time on maintenance issues, securing WordPress based websites as well as on understanding the most recent cPanel, namely the security related features.

More information by mail and during our daily sessions this week.

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Seminar Photo Publishing with Evo for WordPress
2. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
3. Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012
4. Ycademy Online Seminar
5. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

Adobe CS6 and Semiomantics for WordPress

This month’s online seminar will focus on two main areas:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools
2. New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics WordPress Developments

Photoshop CS6 and OnOne Photo-tools

With the release of CS6 Photoshop has come back with some smashing upgrades namely for photographers. We will go through the new features and test them in our hands on workshops.

If you are not yet in possession of Photoshop CS6 Extended, get the trial version from HERE

Besides the Plugin series for Photoshop, OnOne provides a standalone suite of photo editing tools. This suite traces a perfect workflow for photo editing outside Photoshop. We will work with the tool and test out some of the smashing features.

If you don’t have this program, you can download a 30 day trial version from HERE

New Pro Plugins for Semiomantics XO on WordPress

Fed up by the vulnerabilities and bugs caused by free plugins? There is some great stuff available out there with clean code provided by professional developers. At Semiomantics we have selected a series of professional plugs for the purpose of the seminar and further developments which we will implement.

Also, in view of the most recent hack attacks on WordPress we will spend time on maintenance issues, securing WordPress based websites as well as on understanding the most recent cPanel, namely the security related features.

More information by mail and during our daily sessions this week.

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Seminar Photo Publishing with Evo for WordPress
2. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
3. Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012
4. Ycademy Online Seminar
5. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

Semiomantics EVO Developer Theme

2 years ago, about at the same time of the year, we have built Evo, an Action script driven Flash photo and portfolio website.

This time we will make use of HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script to customize Semiomantics EVO, a Semiomantics development for Developers.

  

Semiomantics Evo

Flash is not anymore a smart option for development for as long as Apple mobile devices are as popular as they are and for as long as mobile Apple devices will not display Flash. Therefore we have been looking for an alternative to produce smashing and eye-catching sites based on HTML5.

Of course the good old Evo Flash driven sites still look great. As a lot of work has been put into them we will try to use namely all the edited images and footage in the new EVO version.

 Semiomantics EVO Version 2012

The biggest changes are:

• EVO is now powered by WordPress
• EVO does not use any Flash but is a responsive HTML5, CSS3 and Java script theme.

The new EVO assembles the ultimate in WordPress design and features for modern media display. Ideal for photographers, EVO features not less than 6 different Gallery Types. Galleries can be displayed most anywhere and the number is unlimited.

EVO can also display EXIF and location data.

The high resolution background slider will assure clean display also beyond resolutions of 2500 px equivalent.

Custom sidebars for pages and categories.

Finally: the script is eCommerce ready!

Goals of the Seminar

Become familiar with a new generation WordPress Theme and develop on the given bases a personal template for further customization.

Learn how to replace the existing Evo sites with the WordPress based responsive EVO.

(More to come.)

Materials

Licensed Software is provided.

To build the new site, add a sub-domain to your main site (author blog) and call it for example media, photo or portfolio or similar. (We will discuss this at the pre-seminar call on Tuesday February 21, 2012.

Tickets

Ticket price $85, the usual discounts for Ycademy Pros apply. Please ask Bianca for the discount code: bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Incoming search terms:

• online seminars wordpress theme
• seminar photo

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2. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar
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5. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2011

Semiomantics EVO Developer Theme

2 years ago, about at the same time of the year, we have built Evo, an Action script driven Flash photo and portfolio website.

This time we will make use of HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script to customize Semiomantics EVO, a Semiomantics development for Developers.

  

Semiomantics Evo

Flash is not anymore a smart option for development for as long as Apple mobile devices are as popular as they are and for as long as mobile Apple devices will not display Flash. Therefore we have been looking for an alternative to produce smashing and eye-catching sites based on HTML5.

Of course the good old Evo Flash driven sites still look great. As a lot of work has been put into them we will try to use namely all the edited images and footage in the new EVO version.

 Semiomantics EVO Version 2012

The biggest changes are:

• EVO is now powered by WordPress
• EVO does not use any Flash but is a responsive HTML5, CSS3 and Java script theme.

The new EVO assembles the ultimate in WordPress design and features for modern media display. Ideal for photographers, EVO features not less than 6 different Gallery Types. Galleries can be displayed most anywhere and the number is unlimited.

EVO can also display EXIF and location data.

The high resolution background slider will assure clean display also beyond resolutions of 2500 px equivalent.

Custom sidebars for pages and categories.

Finally: the script is eCommerce ready!

Goals of the Seminar

Become familiar with a new generation WordPress Theme and develop on the given bases a personal template for further customization.

Learn how to replace the existing Evo sites with the WordPress based responsive EVO.

(More to come.)

Materials

Licensed Software is provided.

To build the new site, add a sub-domain to your main site (author blog) and call it for example media, photo or portfolio or similar. (We will discuss this at the pre-seminar call on Tuesday February 21, 2012.

Tickets

Ticket price $85, the usual discounts for Ycademy Pros apply. Please ask Bianca for the discount code: bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Incoming search terms:

• seminar photo

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar
2. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar
3. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
4. Ycademy Online Seminar March 2011
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New Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress

The above Screenshots represent just some of the pages, features and looks the 2012 Edition of the high performance XO Theme for WordPress has up its sleeves. The above site is the fruit of the 2 Days Ycademy Online Seminar for Semiomantics Developers and designers.

XO Theme Features

The 2012 Edition of XO is focused on even more flexibility in as much as editing, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility are concerned.

The Site displays perfectly on Mobile devices, showing responsiveness also of the plugged in scripts chosen of which some have been adapted to satisfy the high standards of Semiomantics Publishing Scripts for Excellence.

The site elaborated at the Ycademy Online Seminar this past week-end features some smashing features, such as:

• Background Slideshow, customizable for each page, post or archive
• Built in Directory
• Media Library for YouTube and Vimeo
• Pro-sliders which can be deployed anywhere on the site
• In addition to the responsive design, a separate light Mobile Version is available
• Bold and Efficient Navigation
• Built in Custom Fonts
• Social Network connectivity and publishing
• and much more.

XO for Developers

The XO script is well commented and offers designers a clean and straight forward environment for custom developments. XO uses best practices for WordPress development and makes the best use of the possibilities offered by the WP back-bone, assuring smooth integration and optimized conflict handling.

XO for Designers

XO is a great playground for designers. The DIY version allows anyone to adapt layout and colors to taste right from the back-office; there is no need to have any knowledge about coding or designing. The theme behaves like a Chameleon and adapts to specific needs with just a few clicks of the mouse: pre-configured layout elements transform your XO quickly into a Magazine, Newspaper, personal Author Blog, a Media Hub, a Shop, a Marketing Machine, a Social Media Publisher, a Product Promoter or a Fan Site or most anything your imagination dictates.

For the professional designer, XO offers a well commented environment. Custom code can be added right from the dashboard or, as I prefer using a child theme. XO is tuned for HTML5 and CSS3 use, making it a modern and inspiring framework for exceptional design effects.

XO out of the Box

Out of the box, the XO Theme for WordPress provides a stable and reliable, robust and optimized solution for common use. It provides built in features such a slider with multiple transitions and a one click selector for easy use.

Layouts can be easily adapted to needs and purpose of the site. In fact, most custom designers rely on the theme engine to format efficiently layouts.

Custom XO

The site featured in the above gallery uses a few pro plug-ins to add functionality in function of customer requirements. The integration of such add on scripts is a relatively simple process for designers and developers.

Customization of the XO Theme

XO has been developed for high performance, productivity, excellence in publishing and flexibility. For the professional users, the XO Theme constitues a solid base with a huge potential for customization and creative artistic expression.

Semiomantics XO 2012 Release

The release of XO Version 3.3.x is planned for the first week of February. The present Release Candidate has been thoroughly tested. A few minor issues will be taken care off before XO will be available to the public.

Upgrading existing XO installations

If your site is running on Semiomantics XO suing basic customization, the theme can just be overwritten. (Save your custom CSS beforehand.)

If you are using a custom version with custom developments or a child theme, some of your customization will need to be adapted to the enhancements of XO 2012. This concerns namely custom headers and footers as well as custom functions.

Support for developers and designers is available as usual at our Ycademy Online Calls and Seminars or through Semiomantics Pro Support.

Incoming search terms:

• wordpress xo theme
• 1001 font mouse fruit faces
• 1001 фейс
• xo theme
• xotheme

Related posts:

1. Semiomantics XO Blog
2. Facebook Strategy with WordPress
3. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
4. Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition
5. WordPress Shop Version 3 by Semiomantics

New Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress

The above Screenshots represent just some of the pages, features and looks the 2012 Edition of the high performance XO Theme for WordPress has up its sleeves. The above site is the fruit of the 2 Days Ycademy Online Seminar for Semiomantics Developers and designers.

XO Theme Features

The 2012 Edition of XO is focused on even more flexibility in as much as editing, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility are concerned.

The Site displays perfectly on Mobile devices, showing responsiveness also of the plugged in scripts chosen of which some have been adapted to satisfy the high standards of Semiomantics Publishing Scripts for Excellence.

The site elaborated at the Ycademy Online Seminar this past week-end features some smashing features, such as:

• Background Slideshow, customizable for each page, post or archive
• Built in Directory
• Media Library for YouTube and Vimeo
• Pro-sliders which can be deployed anywhere on the site
• In addition to the responsive design, a separate light Mobile Version is available
• Bold and Efficient Navigation
• Built in Custom Fonts
• Social Network connectivity and publishing
• and much more.

XO for Developers

The XO script is well commented and offers designers a clean and straight forward environment for custom developments. XO uses best practices for WordPress development and makes the best use of the possibilities offered by the WP back-bone, assuring smooth integration and optimized conflict handling.

XO for Designers

XO is a great playground for designers. The DIY version allows anyone to adapt layout and colors to taste right from the back-office; there is no need to have any knowledge about coding or designing. The theme behaves like a Chameleon and adapts to specific needs with just a few clicks of the mouse: pre-configured layout elements transform your XO quickly into a Magazine, Newspaper, personal Author Blog, a Media Hub, a Shop, a Marketing Machine, a Social Media Publisher, a Product Promoter or a Fan Site or most anything your imagination dictates.

For the professional designer, XO offers a well commented environment. Custom code can be added right from the dashboard or, as I prefer using a child theme. XO is tuned for HTML5 and CSS3 use, making it a modern and inspiring framework for exceptional design effects.

XO out of the Box

Out of the box, the XO Theme for WordPress provides a stable and reliable, robust and optimized solution for common use. It provides built in features such a slider with multiple transitions and a one click selector for easy use.

Layouts can be easily adapted to needs and purpose of the site. In fact, most custom designers rely on the theme engine to format efficiently layouts.

Custom XO

The site featured in the above gallery uses a few pro plug-ins to add functionality in function of customer requirements. The integration of such add on scripts is a relatively simple process for designers and developers.

Customization of the XO Theme

XO has been developed for high performance, productivity, excellence in publishing and flexibility. For the professional users, the XO Theme constitues a solid base with a huge potential for customization and creative artistic expression.

Semiomantics XO 2012 Release

The release of XO Version 3.3.x is planned for the first week of February. The present Release Candidate has been thoroughly tested. A few minor issues will be taken care off before XO will be available to the public.

Upgrading existing XO installations

If your site is running on Semiomantics XO suing basic customization, the theme can just be overwritten. (Save your custom CSS beforehand.)

If you are using a custom version with custom developments or a child theme, some of your customization will need to be adapted to the enhancements of XO 2012. This concerns namely custom headers and footers as well as custom functions.

Support for developers and designers is available as usual at our Ycademy Online Calls and Seminars or through Semiomantics Pro Support.

Incoming search terms:

• wordpress xo theme
• 1001 font mouse fruit faces
• 1001 фейс
• xo theme
• xotheme

Related posts:

1. Semiomantics XO Blog
2. Facebook Strategy with WordPress
3. Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012
4. Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition
5. WordPress Shop Version 3 by Semiomantics

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Implement your Flash Showcase

Once your script is cleaned out and reduced to what you actually need as described yesterday and as done at last night’s Ycademy call, we can implement our project.

Prepare your upload

Before uploading you may already edit the index.html file and add the title of your site as well as the font as the case may be.

Also you can edit style.css to define link colors and other details if needed.

You may also want to edit your site logo:

Ideally the logo file is a transparent PNG image which in this case can be rather wide since we have just a few menu items. The bottom border of the logo is in line with the bottom of the menu items; therefore it is indicated to use capitals for the site header and align them with the bottom of the PNG file.

Example:

For better visibility I have added a background layer on the above. The dimensions are 592 x 60 pixels.

Upload and start populating Semiomantics Evolution

Before uploading the evolution folder you may want to rename it to the folder name it should take on the server; if you upload the site to the domain root (public_html) then you just load the content of the evolution folder without the folder itself.

Once uploaded you may want to start adding a background image (photo of graphic); I have loaded just a background pattern:

For this project I keep a uniform background throughout the whole site; however i would be nice as well to create a nice graphic grunge or photographic background.

Edit menu.xml

Edit menu.xml from your xml folder: define the menu item titles and backgrounds as well as the copyright notice in the footer.

Populate your image gallery (about)

I start now by adding images to my showroom. In fact I am using for this project a showroom gallery instead of the about page: I will oad there graphic images representing my bullet list and then add text to the image legends.

The images are created in photoshop in 2 versions: jpg and transparent png. I load both versions to select later the images to keep – may be a mix of jpg and png images. To create the images I just created two layer sizes: 400 x 600 px and 800 x 600 px. Important: the images must be 600 px high. I drop my messages into the pictures using some grungy Times font and using background colors based on my usual color scheme.

The idea here is to use a gallery to replace the About page by graphically representing the main message I want to deliver and allowing for more information attached to each image. (This way of proceeding is not in line with the terms of the contest!)

Populate your Showcase or Portfolio

For the show case I selected screen-shots of websites I have designed and built for Semiomantics. I have selected 30 screen-shots to see the effect and to measure loading time. I will trim this down later and make a representative selection out of the lot. There are also others I may want to add …:-).

The screen-shots are mega sizes from 100 kb to over 400 kb, whereas they will be adjusted for faster loading. I am testing flash compression and loading them as swf files which is one of the advantages of this gallery script.

A legend will be associated with each screen-shot; each image is based on a Semiomantics script type or module and can therefore be linked to a category or product in the semiomantics shop.

My recommendation: try to keep the image size as compact as possible for fast loading: ideally below 100 kb per image.

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.

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