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How to Register a Domain Name

Yorgoo Blog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:31:41 +0000

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How to Register a Domain Name

As we are building our WP Best eShop to feature my Personalized Web Design & Publishing Services, we start at the beginning following the Plan we drew up yesterday: Registering a Domain Name. If you wish to go straight through to the shop (under construction and development), please click on the picture below.

How to Register a Domain Name

Registering your Name and/or Business as a Domain Name is a simple ‘must’ when operating on the Internet. If YOU are not in control of your name, someone else will… and sooner or later you definitely lose out. Don’t risk this.

Best Domain Name Registration

We can offer the very best Domain Name registration as follows: U$12.95 per domain name for one year U$25.00 per domain name for two years.

Choosing the right Domain Name

Choosing the right domain name is all about YOU and YOUR BUSINESS; it’s the first and most important investment you should make on the Internet. As you will see, you simply first register for FREE to get started. After registration, you can buy any available domain name at U$12.95 for 1 year OR U$25,00 for 2 years.

Never lose a Domain Name

You will be reminded when renewals are due – and while you can cancel and transfer at liberty, you have peace of mind that you will never lose your domain name. Believe me, I know what that means!

Domain Name Support

It’s easy and safe… but if you need some personal assistance to help you with your choice please contact me HERE for dedicated Domain Name Support.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing. Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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WP Best Town Project

Yorgoo Blog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:11 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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WP Best City or Town Theme

How to build a local website, focusing on your town or city? WP Best City or Town Theme by Semiomantics is the answer! WP Best City or Town is not really a theme, it’s a concept for people who want to bring their town and activity to the internet. Semiomantics builds module based Town or City Blogs and CMS in function of the needs of the user.

The WP City Concept by Semiomantics

Every town is different and yet, they all have many common aspects when it comes to presenting and promoting the town, it’s business, events, local market and more. Surfing Google and looking for town sites, you will notice that many towns exist only through rather boring, sterile tourism related directories or politically hyper correct official sites and blogs. Nothing you really want to look at. There are exceptions of course, but chances are that your town is lousily represented on the internet and the people of the town are simply neglected in the equation. At Semiomantics we have developed a strategic concept to bring towns or cities in front of an interested audience. At present we are testing the concept targeting the community of Vouliagmeni in Greece.

Main Site: WP Best Town Blog

To start with, we use a basic destination CMS and Blog based on the WP Best Destination script by Semiomantics. This allows us to post editorials about the Vouliagmeni, it’s people, things to do in Vouliagmeni, events, business, shopping, photo galleries, videos and so on. It’s also designed to offer visitors to Vouliagmeni compelling information about the best place on earth :-).

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My Vouliagmeni Main Site

The main site is tuned for high visibility and performance on Search Engines with the clear ambition to play a role on Google Top 10 under any Vouliagmeni related keyword. Have a look at My Vouliagmeni Main Site.

Add-on Module: Real Estate and Property

The real estate market deserves special treatment. For this reason we have optimized a real estate module for high performance and built it straight into the main site. A sample is here.

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Vouliagmeni real Estate Module

Add-on Module: Classifieds Directory

Directory scripts are known for limited performance compared to Semiomantics scripts. We have therefore developed the WP Best Classifieds Directory with Semiomantics. This is a stand alone CMS which can be visually integrated and strategically linked with the Main site. Have a look at the Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory.

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Vouliagmeni Classifieds Directory

Add-on Module: Shop

The shop concept is based on the WP Best Shop script from Semiomantics. The shop could sell Vouliagmeni related souvenirs, branded Tees or other accessories and more. More about the shop later.

More Add-on Modules

More add-on modules are under development at Semiomantics. We will keep you posted.

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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WP Best Vouliagmeni Classifieds

Yorgoo Blog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:08:30 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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Vouliagmeni Classifieds

The new Town Site Project for Vouliagmeni is evolving: we are building in a new Classified Ads Module. Vouliagmeni Classifieds will be a demo for a commercial add-on or stand-alone module for our Town or City Blog Project.

WP Best Classifieds by Semiomantics

Strategically built layout design
Classified homepage, listings page and classified details page has been designed after many iterations. Designed strategically, the structure of the page is done in such a way that gives maximum exposure to essential elements. From banner ads to tiny design element, everything is thoughtfully placed at the right place.
Semantic OptimizationThe whole script has been semantically optimized by Semiomantics to assure the best possible impact and visibility on Search Engines as we do for all scripts signed by Semiomantics.
User Dashboard
Auto expiring classifieds – edit, renew
Submit A Post – TinyMCE editor
The classified submission process is really easy and advanced. We use advanced tinymce editor for classified details input so your users can do basic design themselves into their classified
Instant image upload
While posting a classified, they can upload as many images as possible. They will need to simply browse and select the image(s) they want in the post and images will start uploading automatically. Not only that, it will also auto re-size and create dynamic thumbnails with zoom functionality.
Inquiry form per classified
In each classified, the classified publisher details are highlighted right at the top with seller’s contact info. Not only that, if the site visitor clicks Send Inquiry button, a simple, clean form will appear. Submitting the form emails the content to the ad publisher.
Google Maps
When posting a classified, users will enter their address and Google Map will be automatically generated and will be displayed on the published classified ad.
Email and print
Site users can forward the classified using email this post. They can also print print the classified with a single click.
Blog and pages
The classified theme can also accommodate a separate blog page so you can have a news section in your classified site. Also it does support standard WordPress pages functionality so you can create pages if you need.
Good for any business – easy of use
The simple, clean design and structure of the theme is built in such a way that the theme can be used to build classified theme for any business. The theme will work just fine for every niche.
Classifieds Dashboard
Right on your wp-admin dashboard, recently published classifieds are displayed so you can check your latest income right away.
Sell ads within minutes
emiomantics will set up and configure the site for you. You just need to add your paypal email ID, specify the price for the categories and start selling classifieds ads on your site.
Paypal payment gateway (more to come)
You can charge money using free and popular payment gateway – PayPal. Simply mention your email ID in the general settings and you are ready to go. Not only that, in near future, we will introduce more payment gateways as well.
Supports multiple currency
Paypal support around 18 different currency and we support that as well. Simply mention the currency you wish to charge for.
Have free or Paid listing (or both ) on your site
You have an ability to allow users to publish an for free in particular (or all) categories and you can keep some of the categories paid. This is a very nice way to boost traffic on your site. You can allow free listings, paid only listing or, both kind of classified listing on your site.
Category based pricing
You can keep unique price for every category on your site or, you can keep different prices for different categories. Not only that, you may keep some (or all) categories as free as well.
Default status of a classified
Wish to check each classified before it gets published on your site? No problem. You have an ability to keep default status of the user submitted classifieds as draft (or published). if you keep the status as draft, It will go live only after you approve and publish.
Featured listings
As you can see on the classifieds theme homepage and listing page, you may charge a bit extra for listing classifieds as featured. A good way to make some extra money.
Ad Monetization
Ads are strategically place across the theme. You may place your own advertise code. You may also disable them if you don’t want the ad banners to appear on the site.
Three Homepage Structures to choose from
The WP Best Classifieds Site comes with three different structures so you can select the one that works best for you.
Bulk Upload
Have a classified site running somewhere else? Or, you wish to bulk upload classifieds on your site? No problem. We do provide a sample .csv file. simply upload your csv file and our theme will import all your classifieds in just few moments.
Manage email and messages
Different messages are displayed on the site and few emails are sent to emails at events such as successful ad publishing and so on. Admin can edit all those messages and templates from within the wp-admin area.
Support
We are looking forward to feedbacks from our users. Once we get some feature requests, we are looking forward to keep improving this theme ( and we provide free of cost upgrade to all the future versions to our customers for 1 year). So if you buy now, you receive many more goodies for this theme, absolutely free.

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WP Best Classifieds by Semiomantics

WP Best Classifieds Module

Development of the WP Best Classifieds Module

The WP Best Classified Ads Module is a development arising from a customer’s need: in fact the existing directory scripts don’t give us satisfaction from an optimization point of view. In fact, traditionally directories have been highly visible 5 to 10 years ago but they have about disappeared from the radar on Search Engines such as from Google Top 10. We have been searching for a solution to apply the benefits of Semiomantics Search Engine Optimization to Classifieds Directories and here we go: Semiomantics WP Best Classifieds unites the semantic benefits of all Semiomantics scripts and can be added to any Semiomantics site as a further monetization module. The WP Best Classifieds Module is part of the WP Best Themes line of Semiomantics; use and maintenance are therefore similar to WP Best Consultant, WP Best Shop and WP Best Destination. The WP Best Classified Module can be extended by the Semomantics SEO Power Module as all Semiomantics scripts. We are loading the first optimized script to the Vouliagmeni Town CMS and Blog to provide a demo in connection with the Town Blog Module.

Pricing

The Module will be available shortly at the Semiomantics shops for $650, including set-up, configuration and basic customization.

Demo

Look out for the Demo site at My Vouliagmeni later today.

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Vouliagmeni

Yorgoo Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:12:42 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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Vouliagmeni

The new Vouliagmeni site is built on the WP Best Destination Theme by Semiomantics. The purpose of the site is to Guide visitors through Vouliagmeni and to allow an attractive surf through categories such as Real Estate, Accommodation or Restaurants and Tavernas. The Who is Who section will feature people from Vouliagmeni and an Events section will report about the hot stuff happening in our town.

The Style of the Vouliagmeni Site

Vouliagmeni is a town where tradition and posh lifestyle meet. I have opted to use one of my preferred color schemes, the black – white – beige scheme.

Vouliagmeni Home Page Top

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Vouliagmeni Home Top

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom

I like the see-through glass barrier.

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover

Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Hover Easter-egg

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Vouliagmeni Home Bottom Easter-egg

Enjoy and have a look at the real thing here.

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Graphic Web Designer

Yorgoo Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:55:40 +0000

by Bianca Gubalke

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Graphic Web Designer

There are many reasons why a professional enterprise or any private and Internet focused individual would need a Graphic Web Designer. Besides creating Websites and Blogs and the necessary layout features plus integrating digital photos, digital pictures, digital images and captivating web graphics there is much more to a creative and adventurous Graphic Web Designer than meets the eye… and although it appeals to several of our senses, Graphic Design is highly visual in the first place! We need Graphic Design everywhere! Think of the need for creating new patterns and textures that can then be used in other applications, online and offline, for instance as a background or in textile design. Just look around you! What do you wear? What’s the pattern on your curtain, the seats in your car, the glossy cover of a magazine, the ornamental design on your coffee cup? Any doubt about a constant need for Graphic Web Designers?

Graphic Web Designer

When working on a big web design job where you really wish to excel, you may need a professional Graphic Web Designer to cooperate with while you focus on your core strengths – which may be more in Coding or Copywriting as an example – to obtain a powerful and convincing result on various levels… and satisfy the customer. An outstanding result that exceeds expectations combined with a pleasant communication and working atmosphere always leads to the next assignment.

Web Design Consulting

At Web Design Consulting we go the extra mile in terms of Creativity and Research to fullfil our Customers’ needs. The below example demonstrates how we look for the perfect match by creating many variations of one motive until we can say “This is it!” and make a choice based on comparisons.

Without this, it’s guesswork… but most probably not a targeted exploitation of our full potential in giving our customer the best we as web graphic designers have to offer. Of course this is a matter of time we can invest based on the budget we are working with. But the difference shows – always! And our clients know it… and this is how Trust and Loyalty build over time… leading to wonderfully productive relationships of great value. Something to strive for in our professional ambition – wouldn’t you agree?

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Creating Empathy

Yorgoo Blog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:49:31 +0000

by Bianca Gubalke

Creating Empathy

When designing the Web Graphics for our website or blog, we need to focus on Images that are Creating Empathy. Although there’s nothing better than starting out with a good original picture – say a sharp photo we took with our digital photo camera – we can make our lives easier and especially save a lot of time when working with filter plugins. While it’s important to first know the basics of our Adobe Photoshop as it allows us to visualize the effect we actually want… and we should work sparcely with effects rather than going overboard with them – it’s great fun to experiment and play – as I did with the sunbird picture I published in my previous post – here’s just one astonishing version where I used a filter plugin :

Bianca Gubalke Digital Art

For some weird reason, however, my Adobe Photoshop CS4 collapses regularly when I am using a new filter plugin I loaded last Friday… and unless I saved my work it’s all gone. Hopefully, there’s a solution.

Images that Create Empathy on Google

But to come back to our regular monitoring of what our posts are doing on Search Engines, let’s look at our latest result on Google. Shortly after we published our article on “Images that Create Empathy’ we could see it on Google Top 10… an amazing position number ONE! Here’s the screenshot :

'Images that Create Empathy' Number ONE on Google Top 10

Optimization Website with Semiomantics

There is no secret: the best Website Optimization is with Semiomantics Scripts, which are based on proven WordPress Technology. This requires Knowledge and Skill that we at Web Design Consulting acquired over years of consistent research, learning, application and experience. All this flows into our Website Development and boosts our customers’ website performance on Google Top 10 – which we proove daily.

WP Best Destination Theme

Yorgoo Blog — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:20:42 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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WP Best Destination Theme?

New WordPress Theme at Semiomantics: the WP Best Destination Theme. The idea behind the development is to provide Websites focusing on local content. The test theme as shown here below, has been planned and strategically designed for the town of Vouliagmeni, Greece. Now you can create a comprehensive website for your city which offers a wide range of information about the various destinations in your city using WP Best Destination – a strategically planned and designed WordPress based Semiomantics website for your city.

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WP Best Destination Vouliagmeni

WordPress Local Websites

We have been experimenting with different formats for town or city focused CMS and Blog websites. While the Newspaper or Magazine formats are attractive for readers, we know from Hanno Coetzee’s experience in South Africa (Garden Route Directory and corresponding Town Directories) that the directory format is more interesting for advertisers. The new WP Best Destination Theme by Semiomantics combines the advantages of the two formats.

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Vouliagmeni Theme Footer

WP Best Destination Theme Standard Features

Excellent Support after installation and configuration

A completely customizable header region with theme options to upload your own background header graphic and logo image.

Site Walk through and Tutorial

Our member control panel includes easy-installation guides with screenshots and other useful articles that allow you to use the theme to the fullest.

The developer version comes with layered Photoshop (PSD) files so you can change the look and feel of the theme as much as you like!

Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation: Up to four levels of drop-down navigation and a fully customizable breadcrumbs navigation in inner pages is included for a better user experience

Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments: Communicate even further with your readers! Our themes use the latest features of WordPress including threaded comments and Gravatar integration.

Built-in Ad Monetization (The blog and sidebar have strategic place holders that you can use to sell ad space or promote your own in-house products.)

The Scripts are Search Engine Optimized by Semiomantics : our themes are professionally coded in a way that gives your site maximum exposure to search engines.

Widget Ready with custom widgets

Our theme fully supports WordPress widgets. But wait! We also include custom widgets specially made for our themes to get the most out of your blog!

Valid, Cross browser Compatible: aree your visitors using a range of browsers such as Firefox, Safari or maybe Internet Explorer? No problem! Our theme renders perfectly in all of today’s browsers, and is fully W3C standards compliant.

WP Best Destination Theme Variants

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Vouliagmeni Sunset

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Vouliagmeni Destination Site

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My Vouliagmeni Blue

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My Vouliagmeni Orange

WP Best Destination Sites by Semiomantics

As usual, a limited number of Destination Projects will be realized by Semiomantics at a cost of $650 per site including setup, configuration, optimization and basic customization similar to the featured screen-shots above. All hooks for add-ons such as the WP Best eShop or the Semiomantics SEO Power Engine are built in. Semiomantics Shop

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Web Design Sensuality

Yorgoo Blog — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:48:43 +0000

by Bianca Gubalke

Web Design Sensuality

Sensuality has to do with our five senses – sight, taste, hearing, touch and smell – and our degree of awareness thereof; in other words our perception of Life and anything that happens around us. Sensuality is what my Online Newspaper Touch Vision Talk was built on where we constrain ourselves to five main categories, referring to the five senses… plus obviously media-oriented categories like a photo gallery, a featured gallery, an art and presentation gallery and a media gallery for videos.

In the Digital Photo “Taste of Paradise” that I took of an adorable little sunbird on dark blue agapanthus blooming right now in Cape Town’s unique Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens yesterday – and the colors are absolutely untouched while I obviously turned this picture into a bit of Wildlife Art by creating and integrating other elements of my own personal taste – , I may assume that this Picture talks to more than just your visual receptors!

Sensuality in Images

In our previous article under the main topic ‘Web Graphics Design’, we spoke about “Pictures that Talk” and how to design “Images that Create Empathy” … and my simple answer to this is by creating digital pictures and images that appeal to one or more of our senses – and this irrespective of the topic. We can do this by expressing or translating our personal perception, understanding and skill in terms of :

Taste and Finesse
Aesthetics
Humor
Simplicity or Elaboration
Accuracy and Photo Realism … or the exact opposite thereof:
Absolute Freedom of Form and Shape etc…

in the style, technique and ways of our own choice. As with anything of value, the closer we are connected to what we are doing – really within the process and part thereof – the more sensual the result and the response it triggers. BEing in the NOW is the secret of it all – and the most important lesson to learn. Touching and being touched… that’s all there is.

Bianca Gubalke Products Shop

Yorgoo Blog — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:16:51 +0000

Bianca Gubalke Products Shop

The Bianca Gubalke Products Shop is the new WP Best eShop currently under construction – based on a WordPress based Semiomantics Script and configured at the first Ycademy Business Building Seminar 2010 that’s taking place right now.

Bianca Gubalke Products Shop

Based on remarkable results over the past years, the new Bianca Gubalke Products Shop will offer everything that’s needed for a professional and high ranking presence on the Internet – from a smart domain name research, over hosting to a customized setup, configuration, running and maintainenance of personalized Websites and Blogs for private individuals who wish to build their Authority on the Internet… to Small Businesses with an ambition to succeed online… and large Corporate Clients who need to build, maintain and expand a professional and continuous presence on Google Top 10 positions to maximize on Traffic and Sales while cutting down on increasingly expensive Google Ads.

Each Project managed personally by Bianca Gubalke will focus exclusively on the Customers’ requirements – dependable yet independent.

Personalized Web Design & Publishing Services

Benefit from our Personalized Web Design & Publishing Services based on Google efficient Semiomantics Scripts, original well-edited Content and eye-catching Artwork -

Customized Web Design,
Captivating Web Graphics and
Search Engine Optimized Writing and Publishing

as lined out in Web Design Consulting.

Stay tuned as the Bianca Gubalke Products Shop evolves. . .

Joy

Yorgoo Blog — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:36:21 +0000

by Bianca Gubalke

Joy

Joy – as an emotion of elation, inspiration and delight… triggering a smile… a precious moment of letting go the pressures and worries of the day while opening up to capture the message and ideally respond to it in a favorable and most natural way – this Joy is definitely part of what our Web Graphics strive to express. It’s a matter of giving, reaching and receiving.

While we all love Joy – or happiness as we call it – and this deep wish is reflected in each song, each poem, novel, movie and even in a decadent piece of chocolate… only few actually reach it.

To me, there’s Joy and Laughter all around us… in little things in Nature that just need to be seen and felt… opening our hearts in a big way!

Joy on Google

I came across two Joy Quotes I really like, especially as I so much respect the great minds behind them:

The Buddha teaches us:

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. ”

And this is from Mother Teresa: ” Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

Interestingly, when looking up “Joy” on Google there are around 140 million returns, just one paid ad that really made me laugh, and while even the Wiktionary seems to be short of explanations for Joy as a state of being… unless referring to names, what comes up are Joy for Mining Machinery, programming language, carpets, radio stations, books, bands, quotes… and yes, Merriam-Webster gets to the roots in the 13th century for this source of delight by describing it as “… the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

Captivating Web Graphics

Which brings us straight back to our objective in this article: the importance of captivating web graphics and attractive images on websites and blogs – be it for online advertising or just accompanying editorials and posts - to attract and envelop visitors with that pleasant feeling that accompanies “… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

In online marketing our prime objective is to give the customer what the customer wants or needs… and a successful way of doing so is by transporting our message – in other words the offer – through captivating web graphics that evoke Joy!

For any of your Web Design, Web Graphics and Publishing requirements benefit from the personal touch and joyful approach at Web Design Consulting.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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WP Best Project

Yorgoo Blog — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:03 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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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).

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Best WP Solution

Yorgoo Blog — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:43:03 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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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.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Style

Yorgoo Blog — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:48:44 +0000

by Bianca Gubalke

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Style

Style is one of the key elements when it comes to Web Graphics or any form of Design. . . and here I don’t refer to style sheets… although they present a basic element of Website Design today.

Style has to do with your “Secret Garden”. . . it is something you recognize immediately – and as such it’s important for your web presence and especially for your Branding.

Style expresses who you are.

Style – What is it?

Style – what is it?

We know the expression “style” from musical compositions and linguistics. Yes, it has to do with composition.

We know it from stars… think Michael Jackson, think Tina Turner… Madonna… Queen. Each has or had their particular style – which resonates with us or it doesn’t. It has to do with resonance.

There are distinctive architectural styles over the centuries and epochs that shaped them. We distinguish it easily in Visual Arts, where style refers to either the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint and how… or the techniques applied in doing so. It has to do with aesthetic values, definitely.

And of course, style is the determinating factor when it comes to fashion design. A legend like Coco Chanel was – and will always remain – its icon.

Style as a Creative Expression

According to Wiki, Design it refers to “…the process of creating something”. Hmmm, I’m not too convinced here, but definitely, Style is a creative expression.

An expression of what?

An expression of an individual… creator? Designer? Artist?

An expression of time, an epoch, its people?

Here we have another important element: Time!

But then, style is timeless… and perhaps herein lies its secret: to express timelessness – the essentials of being – within Time and with the right Timing.

Web Design Consulting

At Web Design Consulting we take the time to understand what our clients want to express – and guide them into finding, developing or enhancing – their own Style.

When creating the above color composition from an original picture from my garden, I thought of our German partner Ute Schaedler.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Ycademy Online Seminar January 2010

Yorgoo Blog — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:15:30 +0000

By Yorgo Nestoridis

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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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Semiomantics WP eShop Pink
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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  Semiomantics WP eShop Blue
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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Semiomantics WP eShop Green
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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Semiomantics WP eShop Yellow
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

User Firefox browser rather than IE to register, thanks!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Internet Marketing Services

Yorgoo Blog — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:52:31 +0000

By Zo Nicholas

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Internet Marketing services

Marketing a product, any product, whether on or offline requires planning. Offline, you need the services of an advertising company to market your products, or if you do it yourself and use the services of a publisher and/or leaflet distributor, newspaper/magazine advertising. Online there are many Internet Marketing Services offered that provide effective marketing campaigns with measurable results and Google top ranking.

Internet Marketing

The advantages of Internet Marketing is that it is relatively inexpensive if you compare cost ratios with offline advertising campaigns, online there is much wider audience that a company or small business can reach. With the increase of internet users world wide and today’s technological advances, Web 2.0 strategies encourage much more consumer interactivity online, product research with smooth and speedy shopping results.

Internet Marketing Services

Internet Marketing Strategy

In order to achieve success in marketing a product online it requires a internet marketer to develop an internet marketing strategy, one that clearly defines and targets a specific audience in order to achieve measurable results. Discuss your specific needs with a qualified IT Cosultant who will guide you through the complexity of a successful marketing campaign.

Results can be easily measured with the use of web analytics to ascertain the efficiency and value of any marketing campaign providing value for money.

Internet Marketing Services

Internet marketing Services are many and varied. There are many ways in which you can communicate your advertising message to a targeted audience.

* Email marketing
* Banner Advertising
* Contextual advertising
* Social Media optimisation
* Search engine optimisation (SEO)
* Search engine marketing (SEM)
* Mobile Advertising

just to name few of the methods applied to internet marketing.

Mobile Advertising

Mobile advertising is a recent phenomena, a trend that cannot be ignored. The mobile industry is developing fast and growing. Many of the larger companies have already adopted the mobile medium as a way to advertise their products. Small businesses to are beginning to see the value and are adopting this method of advertising targeting specific audiences.

Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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