WP Best Project

Start your WordPress Project today by simply following the WP Best Project. Here is the synopsis of the project, a hypothetical case where a customer would like to sell his knowledge, services or products online.

The Purpose of the WP Best Project

The Purpose is to build an online presence for an individual who would like to sell services as a website developer, web designer or as an online marketing professional in order to monetize knowledge, know-how and digital products.

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WP Best Project

What is required to make money online?

If you are unknown in the market, you need first of all a public image, authority in the field of your activity and a trust and confidence inspiring online image.

Second, you need a competitive product which is well presented to the site visitors.

Third you need a website which allows visitors to interact with you, be it by purchasing the product, by contacting you or by discussing with you. (Interactive website features).

How to build a Public Image?

Most newbies start with a social network, such as Facebook. A Facebook site can be a good solution provided you develop your Facebook professionally with the goal to drive your Facebook Contacts to your own sales pipeline.

This means: Facebook is not enough to make money as it is not flexible enough to let you present yourself in the most favorable light due to the limitation of freedom, features and due to the association of third party ads to your Facebook pages.

Also, there is more to the internet than Facebook; the Google Search Engine is another fine place where you will target your cold market audience and don’t forget eBay…

At present, my recommendation is to focus on Google, Facebook and eBay to start building your authority and public professional image.

To build your public image you will do the following:

1. Get a domain, preferably a .com representing your name or the name of your business.

Example: YorgoNestoridis.com or Semiomantics.com

2. Set up a website, featuring you, your work and your services.

3. Decide on some basic branding elements, such as your picture, may be a logo,  a color scheme and fonts for your website; these branding elements you will use consistently wherever you are able to.

3. Edit your public profile consistently in function of your needs and purpose, be it on your website or on Facebook.

4. Associate your name with the benefits of your services and products and start publishing some interesting articles on your website.

Important: Whatever you put on line, make it look and sound professional!

How to Monetize your online Image?

Monetization means that visitors must like what they see and then have a way to follow through on your sales pipeline.

1. Set-up your products.

2. Set-up compelling product sales pages.

3. Set-up a sales pipeline, be it with buy-now features, with a shopping cart or with a catalog.

4. Set-up your customer follow-up, care and support systems.

5. Make sure a maximum of processes are automated.

The first choices

Based on the above, you will have to decide what you can do by yourself and what you may want to outsource to reach your goal of building a professional online presence.

If you are an all-round genius, you may do it all by yourself.

If on the other hand you need help creating graphics, ads or other media for your site, or if you need built in special features, or if you are not a brilliant copywriter, or if you have simply no clue about websites, hosting, databases, website optimization, content management, keywords, online marketing, search engine optimization, social network marketing and so on, then you may want to take some short-cuts by acquiring the lacking knowledge or by outsourcing the tasks which would be a waste of time to you as you will need to focus on where your money is and is coming from.

In any case, just know: you must be professional. You can save on the money side, but not on the quality. Quality will decide whether you will be visible online or damned to buy exorbitant Google and such like ads for the rest of your life. Google Top 10 positions are of the essence to optimize your cost per sales ratio as well as your ROI (return on investment).

Once interested people can find you, it is essential to inspire confidence with your professional sober, serious and integer look and content. What is visible on your site must be at least as good as what your competitors present and believe me, they are darn good at wrapping up their stuff to even make Santa blush.

At Semiomantics we are a team to take care of all your needs, be it just to set up a site or also to configure, optimize or custom design it. Contact me to find out more.

The WP Best project is a Semiomantics venture.

Look out for the implementation of the first steps or join tonight’s call at yorGOtalk at 8 pm GMT (London).

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• Wordpress Update – Webmaster Training
• Wave Seminar Hits Google Top 10
• Your Brand on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Best WP Solution

What is the best WP Solution for Business and Individuals? WordPress is flexible enough to satisfy most any individual need, provided you are hiring a professional website developer. Semiomantics has been working on WP Custom Solutions since 2007 and acquired huge knowledge namely in the fields of optimization and development of feature rich custom solutions.

Best WP Solution for Small Business and Individuals

Home Business, Freelancers, Consultants, Individuals selling services or goods online need an efficient, captivating and highly visible online presence. Quality Web Design, a solid back-bone allowing for content management (CMS) and built in optimization hooks and features are a must in today’s highly competitive market.

WordPress provides a platform which has developed over time to an ideal base for web site development for most any purpose.

The Best WP custom websites are built when customers meet with professional developers and designers to realize custom tailored projects.

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Best WP Solution

How to build the best WP Website?

I will show in a few posts, how a custom website project can be realized, taking into account the typical needs of a small business.

The case study is based on the assumption that an individual would like to sell services and or products online.

The purpose of this series of posts is to allow you to become aware of the choices you have, the problems to consider and to enable you to have a more efficient discussion with your designer and developer when working on the project and its implementation.

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• WP Best Project

Build your Professional WP Shop

The Ycademy January 2010 seminar will focus on building a professional high performance shop based on a WordPress backbone. The flexible shop is based on a licensed eShop script, modified and tuned by Semiomantics.

Ycademy Online Seminar January 2010 Profile

The Online Seminar will take place on January 23 and 24, 2010.

We will start on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm GMT (London Time) and finish at 9 pm GMT; short breaks as usual and a 1 hour lunch or dinner break at 6 pm GMT.

Materials: all materials are provided.

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Semiomantics WP eShop YORGOO

Semiomantics WP eShop

The Semiomantics eShop is the most recent Semiomantics development. The Semiomantics eShop will shortly be available to to Semiomantics customers at a price of $500, including licensed scripts, configuration, set-up, basic customization and a walk-through.

Semiomantics WP eShop Features

Here’s a short summary..

• Usability

  One of the reason it took us long time to complete the backend of the e-commerce themes is, usability. We studied best practices of building e-commerce websites, studied lots of successful online eShops and brainstormed some of the key pages and functionality that may impact the sales process that your customer goes through. We reduced the steps of the process, restructured the purchase experience, debated on the small elements such as button / text / colors / notifications etc., finally concluding our base e-commerce theme to be one of the very easiest to use and best performing purchase experiences so far.

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• Different modes of Shopping Cart

  You may sell anything – tangible or intangible using Semiomantics eShop. You have an option to create your website in any mode:

  • Shopping Cart

    Like the standard shopping cart that you see on other e-commerce websites. You may choose to have “add to cart” mode and let the users add all the items they want and then lead them to checkout or, you can have “buy now” mode and take them straight to checkout when they select a product.

  • Digital Shop

    If you are selling digital product of any kind, this is a perfect option for you. Are you selling icons, digital art, PDF, e-books, scripts or any other kind of digital goodies? Select this option and when a user makes a purchase, they will have an account generated at your site and they can download their purchase any time. You don’t have
    to worry about third party digital delivery sites.

  • Catalog mode

    Maybe you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online? Simply choose this mode and you will have “send inquiry” button instead of buy now / add to cart. Visitors thus, can send an inquiry on the products they like.

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• Manage Products

  Add / Edit / Delete products are as easy as you create a wordpress blog post. You have a custom panel where-in you can edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images etc. real easy.

• Order Management

  Depending upon the settings from your admin panel, you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.

• Shipping Options

  As an admin, you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your eShop. What’s more you can even set free shipping for particular items in case you’ve set other option for your eShop.

• Multiple Payment Gateways

  You have PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options. Choose the gateway you prefer.

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• Manage Tax

  You may specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax fre.

• Grid view / List view

  Whenever you are browsing the product collection, you have an option to see the products in list view or grid view. It’s built-in by default.

• Guest Checkout

  Wish to provide an option to your users to checkout without registration? No problems. Simply activate the guest checkout option from theme admin panel and your buyers will not to register. They simply provide their email address and we create the logins for them. If admin wants, they can choose to send/not send their logins to them.

• User registration

  Users may register on your site or, they will be taken to registration page on the checkout procedure. They will have their own user area where they can keep track of their order, manage profile and download purchased digital products.

• Bulk Upload ( csv )

  Using another shopping cart solution for your eShop and want to switch to our eShop themes? No worries. You can export your data from there in .csv files and import it in your wordpress installation when you use our Semiomantics eShop themes. (sample .csv file included with the theme)

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• Coupon codes

  Admin can generate coupon codes for occasional sales promotion.

• Product Images

  Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it.

• Other parameters

  Specifying Tax, weight,
  color(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colors just in case.

• Specify product size(s), color(s), and other miscellaneous features

  You may specify Size chart if applied, When viewing a product Similar Products are automatically displayed, Several additional custom widgets are built in such as customer support, Subscribe, socialize, promo banners etc. that you can use for your eShop website.

• Affiliate Module

  As an admin, you may choose to activate affiliate program where your customers/others can signup as an affiliate partner and start promoting your products. They will be able to track their affiliate data in real time, and as an admin, you will be able to export/check affiliate reports easily. A great way to boost your sales.

• Blog

  Of course the themes come with a Semiomantics blog, pages etc. functionality with some page templates so you can have a high performance blog for your website.

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  Semiomantics WP eShop YORGOO

Seminar Tickets and Limited number of Participants

Seminar Participants test the Semiomantics eShop when purchasing the Seminar Ticket. We have set up a demo store which will let you have the same shopping and check-out experience as your future customers.

Ticket cost: $65.00

Discounts as usual for Ycademy Pro.

Limited number of Participants

The Seminar will only be available to 10 participants, priority is given to participants of the December Seminar. Please check for availability with Bianca (bianca(at)ycademy.com).

Includes:

Each participant will receive a special site edition of the new Semiomantics eShop script licensed for a single personal site. The total value of the licenses (third party and Semiomantics) is of $250. The shop value, after the seminar is of $500, the price at which Semiomantics is selling its new eShop. The Seminar is sponsored by YORGOO and Ycademy to allow participants to access high performance software at the most affordable rate.

Registration

Please register from HERE

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• Semiomantics XO Licenses

Happy New Year Design by YorgoMan

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Happy New Year Design by Yorgo

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Happy New Year design by YorgoMan

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Christmas Cards Personalized

The yearly returning Christmas Season offers a nice opportunity to create personalized Christmas Cards. Here below some samples from our friends who either created a card or personalized an existing design.

Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger, Switzerland

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Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger

Building Authority, trust and confidence is a permanent effort we carry over into 2010.

Christmas Card Personalized by Laetitia Paris, France

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Christmas Card personalized by Laetitia Paris

Campaign on Laetitia’s personalized Christmas Card … simply a Must!

Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler, Germany

Seasn Greetings on Ute Schaedler’s website:

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Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler

Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa

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Christmas Card personalized by Bianca Gubalke

Personalized Christmas Card by Bianca Gubalke using her Photoshop skills.

Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

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Personaized Christmas Card Hack by Yorgo Nestoridis

From the Sphere to the Cube:

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Hack 2

Hack 3 based on Toni Leuenberger

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Hack 3

And while it’s so nice:

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Christmas Card Hack 4

Laetitia Hack:

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Hack 5

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Best Price Sneakers

Sneakers at the best price are a trendy way to win the hearts of youngsters and oldies as well. The Sneaker as a fashion accessory or a cult status symbol is always a welcome present not only for athletes and hip-hoppers.

Best Price Nike Kicks

Insiders know: there is only one place for shopping for the latest from Nike at the best price: GlobalSportsUS in London!

I just caught the latest video on YouTube featuring the latest trends.

Ismail and Faiz setting Global Trends

Global Sports interpretation of trendy Nike Bling Sneakers is just smashing; Luxury and Creativity united on Nike Swarovski Crystal Custom Shoes at the best price.

Have a look and then rush to Global’s online outlet where you will find Christmas goodies for the whole family!

PS: They deliver fast and safely – I know from my own experience.

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Best Price Sneakers

Sneakers at the best price are a trendy way to win the hearts of youngsters and oldies as well. The Sneaker as a fashion accessory or a cult status symbol is always a welcome present not only for athletes and hip-hoppers.

Best Price Nike Kicks

Insiders know: there is only one place for shopping for the latest from Nike at the best price: GlobalSportsUS in London!

I just caught the latest video on YouTube featuring the latest trends.

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Ismail and Faiz setting Global Trends

Global Sports interpretation of trendy Nike Bling Sneakers is just smashing; Luxury and Creativity united on Nike Swarovski Crystal Custom Shoes at the best price.

Have a look and then rush to Global’s online outlet where you will find Christmas goodies for the whole family!

PS: They deliver fast and safely – I know from my own experience.

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• Online Advertising Fun
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WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

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WP 2.9 User Features

*  Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ’spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ’smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ’separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php

Semiomantics Themes

All Semiomantics Themes will run on the WP 2.9 backbone. You will not notice any visual or visible difference except if you are hosted on outdated MySQL software; in such a case we recommend to either not update or to move the blog to a host fulfilling the appropriate server requirements. (See above: Server Requirements -  our Suggestion remains ChiHosters).

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The WP 2.9 version provides new options for optimization and modifies some of the features we have overwritten in the past for optimized performance. Also, as some of the hooks for plugins have changed, which will allow us to enhance our performance with special add-on scripts.

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

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Semiomantics XO 2010 Licenses Limited Edition

Semiomantics XO 2010 Limited Edition allows Web Site Developers to build sites based on the finest Script which has ever left the Semiomantics site smith. Semiomantics XO 2010 has been extensively tested by Ycademy Pros since September 2009 and the 2010 Release Candidate has been debugged since and completed with some amazing features.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Frameworks perform without Plug-ins

In the past, the performance of basic Semiomantics Frameworks was based on a combination of  the WordPress back-bone, the Semiomantics script  (sometimes modified), WordPress plug-ins and a set of editing and publishing rules.

Most of the technical issues experienced were caused by the plug-ins.

Semiomantics XO 2010 performs without any plug-ins. We still recommend and install an anti-spam plug-in if the site allows for WordPress Comments and Pings. However, we expect that the traditional blog comments will soon be replaced with external Web 2.0 applications, namely with a Google Wave insert, which makes Akismet and such like obsolete.

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Semiomantics XO 2010 Personal Blog and CMS

Economic Hosting due to low use of Memory

The absence of plug-ins decrease dramatically the need for server resources. Recently we have passed the need for 64 MB of memory namely with some media oriented sites and with aggregators. Shared hosting allocating 64 MB RAM or more is difficult to find and becomes an expensive issue.

The Problem with Plug-ins

While the WordPress development is greatly depending on plug-ins, which are made available for free by plug-in developers, they often constitute a stumbling block for beginners and advanced users in as much as they need attention and maintenance (updates, upgrades, sometimes customization).

Most plug-ins have been straight to the point a few years ago; today most popular plug-ins have been enriched by tracking features and multiple links and feeds out which are uncontrollable by the average user. Some plug-ins import whole external websites into the dashboard, donation buttons and even unrelated third party links and features.

It is not always clear whether plug-ins actually enhance the overall performance of a site or whether the site serves merely to improve the plug-in developers own site.

The Semiomantics Solution

Semiomantics has rewritten plug-ins for a while now for commercial customers and cleaned out what is not actually needed. Also, some “performance enhancers” have been added to the framework scripts to reduce the need for plug-ins. Semiomantics XO 2010 uses only about 50% of the Memory of comparable earlier versions, in any case clearly below 32 MB of RAM.

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License is more than just a license to use the XO scripts and to commercialize it. The License includes all trainings and support needed to customize and to adapt the scripts to the needs and preferences of customers. In fact it is designed for people who would like to start their own business building high performance sites for customers and it includes support and workshops to improve knowledge concerning web design, namely CSS, as well as Graphic Design with Photoshop and basic php coding.

XO’s best performance can be reached by respecting a set of editing and publishing rules which apply specifically to Semiomantics XO and which are the results of thorough in-house testing.

Semiomantics XO 2010 Seminar

The first specific Semiomantics 2010 XO Seminar exclusively for License holders, will take place on January 9, 2010. This one day seminar will highlight the new features of XO as well as detail the most efficient way to customize and adapt the scripts to the needs of customers.

Also the seminar participants will build a site with optimized XO default configuration which will serve as a model for any customer job.

Semiomantics XO additional templates for Photo blogs and Personal may be elaborated time permitting.

Investment and Limitation

The Semiomantics XO 2010 License has been issued in 10 only samples:

5 are Developer Licenses for people who use the scripts as a base for own development and who will not be allowed to use the Semiomantics Signature for their out-put but who will have to brand their work. These licenses are sold out.

5 are Semiomantics Business Licenses, allowing for the use of the Semiomantics script and brand as per above description. 2 only such licenses are available at this point and reserved for YORGOO – Ycademy Pros till December 16, 2009. After that date they will be withdrawn and allocated to external developers in the queue.

The Business Licenses include access to special trainings, seminars and workshops reserved for license holders.

How to get your License

For more info, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com

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Semiomantics Consulting for Web Development

Semiomantics is expanding. Known for highly productive and performance oriented web development based on the WordPress CMS, Semiomantics is expanding it’s activity and capacities by associating to the venture a small number of selected and highly trained web developers, designers, project managers and consultants to assure long term customer satisfaction and performance on a wider scope.

Semiomantics Google Top 10 Performance

Originally Semiomantics was created to study and implement semantic tuning to WordPress based websites, namely blogs, with the goal to reach high listing positions on Google, ahead of the competition. Soon Semiomantics powered websites were able to compete with the best about the Google Top 10 positions on most any targeted keyword.

After the first scripts, called The Magic Search Traffic Formula, the first Edition of Semiomantics XO was developed in late 2007. A few variations of that script were released before 2 mostly automated models have been developed to boost Google Top 10 performance of any website: YORGOO Blaster in 2008 and YORGOO Booster in 2009.

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Semiomantics Consulting

Impressed by the unique publishing power provided by each Semiomantics script and site, customers asked for additional functionality to be integrated without jeopardizing the high performance. Consequently, Semiomantics developed add-on modules which would integrate new features, such as e-commerce solutions, social network marketing functions, as well as custom designed interfaces for multiple purposes such as media proliferation, newspaper and magazine style sites and highly styled personal web solutions for individuals.

A new Semiomantics SEO Module assures the best performance of the most complex websites and even for inexperienced editors and publishers.

Semiomantics Customer and System Maintenance Services

Increasing complexity of the internet as well as of the underlying technology require extended customer and system maintenance systems. Customers need to focus on their business while they can trust the websites to perform and serve the business purpose. Semiomantics has therefore started offering system management and maintenance services to take care of web related concerns of busy customers.

Semiomantics Customization and Design

Website look, style and functionality are major concerns to customers and to Semiomantics as well. Only professionally designed websites will lead to the desired conversion of traffic achieved with the Semiomantics high performance frameworks.

For Semiomantics, web design is not just a look; it’s also accessibility, functionality, flexibility and adaptability. Semiomantics certified designers are not only capable to produce graphic elements, but they have thorough knowledge about Semiomantics Scripts and functionality. Permanent trainings and seminars keep Semiomantics Designers and Consultants updated assuring best service, performance and value of their work, propulsing customers a step ahead of their competition.

Semiomantics Coaching

Semiomantics provides trainings and coaching for customers and their staff to assure the most efficient use of the internet for the purpose of their business. Personal coaching, Group Trainings or Seminars are available due to the close collaboration with Ycademy.

The Semiomantics Signature

The Signature “Semiomantics” stands for high performance and visibility, productivity oriented functionality and an incomparable sense for design and customer care. Online Solutions leaving Semiomantics Site Smith are tested and have already reached first performance levels. Only sites passing the ultimate test based on criteria  satisfying the highest standards are awarded with the Semiomantics Signature, a visible sign and award for quality, high performance and original design.

Semiomantics Consulting

Semiomantics Consulting is the commercial arm of Semiomantics and stands for Semiomantics’ concern for customer oriented business development. Semiomantics Consultants are licensed professionals who work individually as well as in teams to consult customers and to elaborate, manage and execute customer tailored solutions for business and private purposes.

After two years of development, Semiomantics is ready to extend services to a wider audience, keeping in mind that each Semiomantics script type is edited in a Limited Edition and therefore only available to a few privileged customers who know that the highest standards only are good enough to excel online. The Semiomantics Signature warrants for it now and in the future.

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IT Consultant Seminar by Ycademy

IT Consulting is an interesting business for Ycademy Seminar participants to monetize knowledge and know-how acquired during the past 2 years. IT Consulting can be offered to family, friends or businesses who wish to become more internet or computer savvy and who may want to build their own profile, image or business online.

Ycademy Pros dispose of 3 main assets:

1. They are equipped with the best technology for their own use.

2. They know how to make the best use of technology to reach their goals.

3. They have a safe fallback position due to the unlimited support and help from Ycademy.

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Ycademy Online Seminars

What is an IT Consultant

An IT Consultant’s job description could look as follows:

“An IT consultant works in partnership with clients, advising them how to use information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems. IT Consultants work to improve the structure and efficiency of an organization’s IT systems.

IT Consultants may be involved in a variety of activities, including marketing, project management, client relationship management and systems development.

They may also be responsible for user training and feedback. In many companies, these tasks will be carried out by an IT project team. IT consultants are increasingly involved in sales and business development, as well as technical duties.”

IT Consultant Seminars by Ycademy

Ycademy Pro’s dispose of all the qualities required to exercise an activity as IT Consultants.  Most IT Consultants specialize on a certain number of tasks. Ycademy IT Consultant Seminars serve to permanently update, review, bundle and wrap up the acquired knowledge with the purpose of converting it to customer satisfaction.

Ycademy’s Path to Profitability Seminars will offer 5 Seminars for interested parties who would like to  build a professional, specialized IT Consultancy business. In fact, the Seminar content will consist in high-lighting at every seminar one important aspect of IT Consultancy and it’s conversion into a commercial product.

IT Consultant 1

The IT Consultant Seminar 1 is planned to take place on January 23 and 24, 2010.

We may however modify the date to December 12 and 13, 2009 if not all December Seminar participants will have received the December course materials in due time. In such a case the December Schedule will be implemented on a later date.

Agenda:

Your IT Consulting Project

IT Consultant Profile

Build your Profile and project as an IT Consultant based on your preferences, know-ledge and ambitions.

IT Consultant Project

Convert your above profile to a plan and create an outline.

IT Consultant Website

Build a Website to promote your IT Consultancy Services.

IT Services Sales Pipeline

Build your Sales Pipeline by Adding the necessary software and sales management program to your site.

IT Affiliate Program

Add an affiliate program to allow third parties and customers to be rewarded for promoting your services.

The Goals of Lap 1 of the IT Consultant Seminar Cycle

• Wrap up your Purpose and Goals in form of a master-plan with short, medium and long term goals.
• Set-up and configure your IT Consulting Website.
• Basic customization of the site.
• Set-up, configure and integrate your sales program, shopping cart and affiliate program.
• Hook the new business to your existing profile and publishing and marketing network.

Important Note

This Seminar is extremely ambitious as will be the 4 following laps of the IT Consultant Cycle. On the other hand, the main tasks will consist in giving a professional public face to what you have learned and developed for your own purpose during recent months and to wrap it up for commercial purposes.

Budget: we will equip all participants where needed with all the course materials. Where it involves licensed software, we will sponsor the materials partially as in the past. The maximum cost per months for Ycademy Pros is as at present $50.

As Ycademy charges below out of pocket cost, we expect participants to help each other where needed at no cost, namely in as much as the web developments for the personal use of the participants are concerned.

Please keep in mind: this is a Team Effort to build for each participant a personal and customized business platform. All Participants are Consultants and Customers at the same time, allowing us to gain experience during role plays and workshops.

Together we are unbeatable!

For more information and questions, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com and watch out for the email to December Seminar Participants. Tonight’s Ycademy Live Meeting at YorgoTalk at 7 pm London time will deal with this ambitious and rewarding project.

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The Menora in the Side Door

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Present PowerPoint Slide Shows on your Blog

We have been testing multiple solutions for publishing the Semiomantics XO PowerPoint Slide Shows to interested visitors on our blogs. Amongst such solutions we have envisaged inline frames, inserted special boxes, YouTube and others.

Semiomantics XO Slides in Flash using an external Presenter

The best solution we could come up with so far is the conversion of PowerPoint into Flash and the presentation in overlay. Have a look here below:

Presentation

If you have some ideas to this topic or smarter solutions, we would appreciate your comment.

Semiomantics XO

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The best Semiomantics Framework based on WordPress

For over two years Semiomantics has been tuning WordPress for high performance on Search engines. Unique on-site optimization and Google Top 10 performance establish Semiomantics amongst the most envied signatures in the industry.

Semiomantics XO – Semantic Publishing and blogging for everyone

When almost 2 years ago the first Semiomantics XO version 2008 made it’s appearance, it became obvious that the framework had one outstanding quality: it allowed to reach unequaled Google Top 10 performance. The original site was a simple two column blog layout powered by an optimized script to ‘communicate’ better with Search Engine crawlers.

Ever since the performance and science behind the Semiomantics technology have been improved and over the past 12 months efforts have been made to enhance the look and the flexibility of the web design in order to allow also a newbie to quickly customize the site and to achieve extraordinary results just by using the Semiomantics XO framework.

As Semiomantics XO 2010 does not need any plug-ins for reaching its targets, it is the ideal starter solution for professional and private users who strive for high visibility and authority on search engines.

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Semiomantics XO Presentation Slides on YouTube

Semiomantics XO 2010 Limited Edition

As usual, Semiomantics scripts and Frameworks come in limited editions only; first because there is a limit to the work we can handle to the entire satisfaction of our customers and second, because the exclusivity of the advantages of Semiomantics constitutes a real advantage over competitors who are not equipped with the ultimate in SEO and semantic Publishing.

Semiomantics XO Basic

This wonderful framework will only be released under a special license, allowing certified designers and developers to adapt the design to the needs of their customers.

Availability: 10 Licenses

Price: $250 (included: license and a special 1 day Seminar and Workshop by Ycademy for Semiomantics).

Recommended retail price for Customized Semiomantics XO: as from $ 500.

Note: Semiomantics Certified Designers have been trained by Semiomantics  – Ycademy and are permanently updated about the latest developments of Semiomantics. Licenses run for one year and include any eventual updates and upgrades during the year.

The Semiomantics Basic License is ideal for Web Designers and providers of Web Services who are customer oriented and believe as strongly as we do in customer care.

Licensees Protection is assured through encrypted unique tracking of each mounted script, preventing multiple unauthorized usage through blocking performance. The special license allows Certified Designers to sell and to set up an unlimited number of customized Semiomantics XO sites.

Semiomantics XO Professional Frameworks

These are highly Customized Commercial or Personal sites which strive for the highest possible degree of performance. The sites are using the above basic framework.

In addition all these Sites are powered by the protected Semiomantics Semantic SEO Engine. The Semiomantics Engine can be hooked to any Semiomantics script as an upgrade.

Availability: 50

Price for the upgrade: $500

Seller and implementation: Semiomantics exclusively.

Note: The Semiomantics SEO Engine is custom developed and implemented on the site. Tuning and optimization of the base scripts are performed by Semiomantics for best results. The Semiomantics SEO Engine’s performance is superior to any other module we have tested and allows customers to compare the cost of Semiomantics and Google or Yahoo ads on a 1:1 bases, whereas Semiomantics is multiple times cheaper and more efficient.

Semiomantics add-on modules

Available modules for e-commerce, media management, social network marketing and a few more are available and we will publish the catalog and terms shortly.

How to get a Semiomantics Designer License

Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com to take an option. License allocation will be made on December 12, 2009, payment is due on December 15, 2009. The licenses are valid till December 31, 2010. The Semiomantics XO 2010 is already tuned to run on the back-bone of WordPress 2.9.

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