Transparent WordPress Custom Theme

Playing with the XO Theme Version 3.3.x from Semiomantics and CSS3, I notice how easy it is for most anyone to customize the XO Theme by adding transparencies and other CSS3 elements. Here below you find some drafts. You may visit the test site from : http://globalthebrand.com.

On the test site we use the Semiomantics Widgets and Theme Handler plug-in as well as a modified Supersized plug-in; the latter needs some more work to make it more responsive. Also we use TubePress which behaves fine also on mobile.

The Theme is Semiomantics XO with 3 custom child-themes; any theme can be associated with any page, post, category, tag or sidebar.

Related posts:

1. Transparent WordPress Semiomantics XO
2. Transparent WordPress Theme Design
3. Semiomantics XO Blog
4. The 1001 Faces of Semiomantics XO
5. Semiomantics XO 2011 for WordPress

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Eugenides Foundation Technology Exhibition

The experiment will show how a complex solution changes color in a circular manner, acting as a chemical clock.

“Chemical clock Belousov- Zhabotinsky” is a demonstration performed by staff of the Interactive Science and Technology Exhibition, Eugenides Foundation. The demonstration is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.sciencetweets.eu.

• technology exhibition

Related posts:

1. Eugenides Foundation Science and Technology
2. Eugenides Foundation
3. Creative Commons vs Copyright
4. Creative Semiomantics

Interactive Science and Technology Exhibition

The Eugenides Foundation’s Physics Experiment Collections and the Technical Exhibit Halls were created in 1966 and operated at the Foundation facilities on Syngrou Avenue until the mid-1990s. Their goal was to fill the gaps in experimental equipment at the institutions of technical education in post-war Greece and to more adequately carry out the essential educational function in the technical and scientific fields.

Two new wings were added to the Foundation in September 2003; one of them houses the New Digital Planetarium and the other, in a section of the building symmetrical to the Planetarium, houses a unique exhibition hall, the “Marianthi Simou” Interactive Science and Technology Exhibition Hall.

The first periodic exhibition, titled Science of Sports, was held there in November 2003, staged by the General Secretariat for the Olympic Games in cooperation with the Eugenides Foundation in light of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

A permanent Interactive Science and Technology Exhibition has been on display in this new exhibition wing since December 2006.

Related posts:

1. Eugenides Foundation
2. Protected: Global Sports Update
3. Publishing and Editing Images 2
4. How to Make Money with Images

Facebook Business Account

What is the difference between a Business and a Personal Account? Which is the ideal solution for you and what are the implications of your choice?

First of all, be aware that according to Facebook rules you are not allowed to use multiple Facebook Accounts. However, you may create multiple Advertizing Accounts as a Managed Advertiser having a dedicated Facebook Representative.

You can set up a Facebook Business Account, if you don’t already have a standard account,

Business Accounts are mainly designed for Advertisers and to manage pages.

To create a business account you start by setting up a Facebook Ad or a Facebook Page.Once you have provided the required information, you will be taken to the log-in page and you will be asked if you have already a Facebook Account.  Select “I do not have a Facebook account” and continue by providing email and date of birth.

As the owner of a Business Account you can view and edit your pages and ads, add photos or videos and consult stats relating to your pages and ads.

You cannot see other users profiles or timelines as Business Accounts have limited access to information of Facebook.

You cannot see Facebook content that does not live on your pages.

Business accounts cannot be found on search or added as friends.

Business accounts cannot send or receive Friends Requests.

A business account can be converted into a regular account. Once done, the process cannot be reversed.

The big disadvantage of Business Accounts are their absence from the internal search and friend feature, making it almost compulsory to spend big time and/or money to promote the content.

• facebook business account
• facebook
• disadvantage of business account in facebook
• facebook managed advertisers who have a dedicated facebook representative
• what is a business account on facebook

Related posts:

1. Facebook and Home Business
2. Facebook Strategy with WordPress
3. Facebook Marketing 2
4. Best Facebook Pages
5. Facebook Marketing

Eugenides Foundation Images

A simple iPhone photo with variations.

• Eugenides foundation

Related posts:

1. Acropolis Rally 2011 Images
2. Web Design Graphics Label with Variations
3. Corvette 79 for Sale Grunge
4. Photo Gallery by Semiomantics
5. Cap Sounio – Sea Urchins

10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Implementing your Facebook Strategy will be at the center of the November Ycademy Seminar. This hands-on Seminar and Workshop will stretch over two days and build with participants an eye-ball-twisting Facebook presence. See the seminar schedule at the bottom of the post.

The Seminar is designed for WordPress Developers and WP users who are looking for high productivity and customized publishing and marketing solutions.

This topic deals with efficient strategies which will efficiently improve your Facebook presence.

Visit the Semiomantics Facebook Page

Surfing through Facebook we notice some common errors well intended people commit when building their Facebook presence. We will discuss these issues and show you how to eliminate them from your personal or business Facebook.

While content is king, there are different ways of making it accessible to visitors. We will discuss the recent changes Facebook has implemented and show you where the focus should be in order to improve your visibility, traffic and business or network expansion on Facebook.

Function of your strategy we will define and optimize privacy settings in order to grant potentially interested visitors access to relevant information. Privacy, Accessibility and List-building as well as Targeted Communication are the essentials of this key session.

For people looking for you, your business, services or products, your Profile and Info page are of the utmost importance, the more that your info is visible from outside Facebook and therefore Google efficient. We will set up with participants an efficient Info Page.

We will discuss the recent changes implemented by Facebook and how they impact on our strategies.  Friends, Fans and Subscription features impact on the way we expand our network and influence on Facebook.

Overview of the Facebook Page feature. Integration techniques, Apps, Content, Canvas and Pages.

The focus is on the technical set-up of a Facebook Page. As  content we will use a graphic, picture of video.

What is it you actually wish to display on your Facebook page? In fact there is no limit and it depends entirely on your strategy.

This is the center piece of the seminar. Creating Facebook Page right from your WordPress site is now possible. We will set up a reveal page and different Facebook pages depending on participants needs. In fact we show you how to create a whole website in Facebook, straight from your WordPress.

While this works with most any WordPress 3.1 enabled Theme, we will demonstrate the integration with Semiomantics XO.

In fact we will work with a professional plugin modified for Semiomantics XO.

The Seminar will guide you to master the following and more:

• Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress

• Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways

• Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages

• Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor

• Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks

• Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization

• Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO

• Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog

• Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages

• Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages

• Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Add Facebook related widgets to your front and/or content pages. Google+ and Twitter buttons. Pull in Facebook Albums, Events, like Buttons and more. Use Facebook Connect to log in to or to register with your blog.

Create content which is only accessible after visitors clicked the “Like” button. A smashing filter which allows you to manage accessibility right from your XO.

Saturday and Sunday November 26/27, 2011.

We start at 1 pm London Time and end at 9 pm London time both days.

You need a WordPress blog preferably with FTP access.

Scripts and all other materials are provided.

We will install the necessary scripts for you previous to the Seminar; please get your Tickets early. If we are not yet in possession of the FTP access to your site, please send it by email to Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

The Price for Participating, Materials and access to recordings is $85.

Click to get your Ticket

Discount as usual for Ycademy Pros. Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the code or any other question you may have pertaining to the Seminar.

• social community feature like facebook in wordpress
• strategy for facebook wordpress integration
• facebook strategy
• creating efficient blog pages in wordpress
• scheduled facebook page posts
• price create facebook page
• integrate wordpress blog with facebook page
• increase likes on a wordpress post
• implement strategy to add to our number of facebook fan
• auto post to facebook from wordpress

Related posts:

1. WordPress on Facebook
2. Facebook and Mobile Web Seminar by Ycademy
3. Facebook Marketing 2
4. WordPress for Facebook Fan Pages with FBlaster
5. Semiomantics Optimization for Facebook

WordPress 3.3 Update for XO by Semiomantics

Semiomantics XO users: update to WP 3.3 and appreciate the new admin bar featuring also your XO theme menu. Also new: the drag and drop media up-loader as well as the admin menu :-).

• update wordpress 2 9 3 3
• upgrade wordpress 2 9 to 3 3
• wordpress 3 3

Related posts:

1. WordPress Update 3.0.4
2. WordPress 3.0.2 update
3. WordPress Update – Webmaster Training
4. WordPress 2.9 update on Semiomantics
5. Apple Peel for WordPress

DuSunnah Online Bookshop

The DuSunnah Bookshop will shortly go officially online. This new Shop is an extension of the Masjid Daar us Sunnah in London. From a developer’s point of view, the shop is a challenge in as much as it has to fit into an existing online infrastructure. This post will show a possible concept about how to interlink various social networks with different websites and script for the purpose of serving the community in the most efficient and accurate way.

Dusunnah Bookshop

Let’s start with an inventory:

1. Dusunnah.com is a Joomla based CMS which up to now was the online presence of the Masjid in its own right.

2. Dusunnahbookshop.com is a new X-Cart based online shop.

3. Dusunnahbookshop.com/blog  is a WordPress based blog under construction.

DuSunnah has built a solid presence on Social Networks such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as well as a Newsgroup, reaching out to thousands of friends and subscribers.

Time has come to consolidate all these efforts and achievements and to streamline the online activity by integrating all pieces and bits into an efficient communication and publishing concept, targeting and expanding the existing communities.

While Joomla has for a long time been recognized as the most powerful Content Management System, we at Semiomantics have always felt that its performance is way inferior compared to WordPress when it comes to search engines. For this reason we have always privileged WordPress, ready to make concessions on the CMS side; WordPress has made and is making progress on the CMS front and with WP 4 we are expecting namely better media management as well as a more user-friendly admin area.

Joomla may be easier to use for non professional users, however it lacks the real power to gain high visibility we can achieve with WordPress. I guess Joomla users are good customers of all sorts of ads networks, while Semiomantics is specialized to build WP based sites which show on the left side of Google top 10 search returns, saving thus thousands of advertising bucks.

While there are some developments available to integrate WordPress into Joomla as a Joomla component, for example by Corephp.com, we prefer the flexibility and power of a self-hosted WordPress site separate from Joomla as Semiomantics Optimization for high performance conflicts with Joomla and would thus reduce the power of WordPress.

Having said the above, the WP extension by Corephp remains a brilliant and cheap solution to improve Joomla.

In as much as our publishing concept is concerned, we keep both sites separate, on separate servers and we create the link using RSS Feeds and technology, whereas we will stream the Joomla content into WordPress and use WordPress as the striking arm for SE targets.

When combining WordPress with e-commerce we always have preferred to separate the active WordPress site from the shopping site, even when using WP e-commerce plugins. The reason is simple: the purpose of both sites is not the same: a shop must provide a smooth shopping experience, while WP must first of all perform and gain high visibility on Search Engines.

The architecture of shops is not designed to reach high impact on search engines, they are a sort of a content management system for products integrating check-out and payment gateways. These features require configuration which conflicts with what we consider optimized semantic configuration as used on Semiomantics powered WordPress scripts.

We deal therefore with X-cart as we do with Joomla, we create a product stream targeting WordPress.

As you can deduct from the above, WordPress is the central element in our Publishing and Marketing strategy. The main reasons for this are:

• the powerful optimization by Semiomantics
• the aggregating possibilities of all content produced on all sites and networks
• the publishing power to reach Google top 10 rankings
• the publishing power to reach out for social networks
• the easy sharing of any kind of media, namely also YouTube
• the possibility to keep a maximum of traffic in stead of giving it away to third parties

The use of Semiomantics powered WordPress replaces to a large extent marketing budgets for Google Ads for example as we can bring our content and products right to the top of Google. The WordPress based site will be linked directly with all own sites as well as with the newsgroup and all social networks. This simplifies the work and publishing flow and assures optimized publishing.

The described concept has proven to be highly efficient for our own purpose as well as for our customers. Our publishing and marketing networks are custom built and fine tuned for the purpose of each respective customer’s needs and purpose, whereas we aim to provide time and money saving solutions achieving thus optimized productivity.

• masjid joomla
• daar us sunnah bookshop online
• dusunnah bookshop
• daar us sunnah online bookshop
• du sunnah
• dusunnsh

Related posts:

1. Semiomantics is going private
2. Online Tax Filing by Larrie Perkins
3. Social Network Publishing
4. Tutorials
5. YORGOO Publishing Network

Related posts:

1. WordPress Update 3.0.4
2. WordPress Update – Webmaster Training
3. Protected: Global Sports Update
4. WordPress 3.0.2 update
5. Klout or Harvard