Minimalist Elegant Web Design

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

Elegant dark Web Design

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Elegant Web Design Home Page with a presentation slider

Preview the site HERE

Elegant white Web Design

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Elegant Web Design 2 - Home Page with a video clip

Preview the site HERE.

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

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

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Assessing the Competition

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

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

Assessing the Competition

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

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

My Noordhoek Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stay tuned; more about it in my next article!

Web Design Consulting

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

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

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

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

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

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Elegant Web Design

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

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

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

Dark Elegance

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

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

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Elegant Web Design Home Page with a presentation slider

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Elegant Web Design Media Slides with text

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Elegant Web Design News Section

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Elegant Web Design Audio Library

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Elegant Web Design expanded gallery

More later.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Defining Target Audiences

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

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

So who are you painting your picture for?

Defining Target Audiences

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

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

My Noordhoek Project

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

1. The Inner Circle

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

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

2. The Outer Circle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. Noordhoek Home

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

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

Stay tuned; more about it in my next article!

Web Design Consulting

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

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

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

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

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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My Noordhoek Project

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

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

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

My Noordhoek Project

So what will “My Noordhoek Project” be about?

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

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

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

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

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

Web Design Consulting

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

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

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

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

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

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Build your Flash Intro

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

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

Flash Intro

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

Have a look at a DEMO FLASH HERE.

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.

Attractive Logo Creation

A new and extremely practical graphic software tool we studied in our last Ycademy Workshop invites for some attractive Logo Creation – here are examples of the first fun testing round. . . I hope they move as most are all animated!

Attractive Logo Creation

Attractive Logo Creation is a serious profession in itself and I remember a graphic designer friend of mine back in Germany spending over a year on creating the well-known Lufthansa logo.

That was a VERY different price category!

While companies invest heavily in logo creation as part of their Branding, things on the Internet have to be fun, fast and easy – and at Ycademy we are testing some spiffy ways of getting attractive solutions faster. Of course it means exploring the tools and getting a grip on the many options. . . exactly as I do here.

While it’s fun to experiment and go overboard a little in the beginning, don’t be tempted to use all the gimmicks and effects at once !

Branding Cookies from Felisa

Branding “Cookies from Felisa” via a smashingly pink and swinging (as always buzzzzy…) telephone should be a runner (for more cookies of course…) – what do you think?

I don’t believe I did this burning hot red telephone and my head is as red as what you see here – however, it was great fun and very appropriate for Felisa’s red hot Orderline for her Sweet, Sugary and Sticky Fan Club! Talaga Felisa!

Forever Freesias for Brenda Baker

I just had to play with those funny 3D animation options . . .  and that’s how “Forever Freesias” for Brenda Baker popped into existence – within about half an hour.

Of course, I could elaborate much more on all this and if a client orders a logo I obviously start with a very intense case study to catch the essence of his or her business and corresponding mission… but it’s also good to see what’s possible today with some imagination and without sweating on Photoshop for hours… which would be quite a different price category as well! A different level too – I agree, however, it always depends what’s requested… and sometimes Time is Money and a quick fun logo is just what someone wants.

Branding Consulting for Boruch Rappaport

Before you think I’m completely nuts now – and YES! I CAN go much more overboard LOL – let me end on a more serious note with some interesting trials for Branding Consulting for Boruch Rappaport:

I thought the decorative elements around the words of the logo example below are enough and didn’t add any shadow effects.  We’ll see whether the subtle ripple effect I built in shows!?!

Web Design Consulting

Creating Attractive Logos is yet another service Web Design Consulting offers and can be ordered at our SHOP HERE.

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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South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010

South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 ahead of South African champion Christoff van Heerden (second) followed by South African Daryl Impey (third) due to a brilliant team strategy.

Remember my picture of 32 km remaining yesterday?

Well, seems that was a good intuition as it’s here where the grand finale over 109 kms was decided today in the early morning hours: the decisive break of 12 riders moved clear of the large peloton just before the climb towards Chapman’s Peak Drive. . . and while these pictures are straight from my camera, they show the first batch that zoomed through… and those were the ones! I think the camera on the motor bike in the background is directed towards Lance Armstrong in red and black on position 6… but that’s just a guess (but I have the close-up too…). Proudly South African in any case… YEBO GO GO!

South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010

When I perceived the faint vibration of the first helicopter this morning, I knew it was time to secure a place along Noordhoek Main Road to catch the first batch of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 racers – amongst them without any doubt Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour de France 7 times in a row and is definitely the center of (media) attraction in Cape Town right now – … and so it was!

Due to severe crosswinds they arrived later than in years before, but zoomed passed the early cheerers, supporters and fans who were having family-wise power breakfasts along the road and were definitely enjoying themselves…

Lance Armstrong on Twitter

While I was still down there taking pictures of the “new generation”, world cycling superstar Lance Armstrong was already on Twitter – so to speak straight after the race:

“Argus Cycle Tour done! What a cool ride/race. Congrats to @darylimpey on gettin’ 3rd. Wind was howling out there.”

It was a beautiful day for the world’s largest timed cycle race … and it was pretty windy, although luckily not as strong as back in 2009 when just about 50% of the field managed to finish.

Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 Leading Results

Here are the 109km leading results as published:

1  Malcolm Lange (SA) Team Medscheme 2hrs 39min 55sec

2  Christoff van Heerden (SA) MTN Energade

3  Daryl Impey (SA) Team Radioshack

4  Burry Stander (SA) Team Specialized

5  Rene Hasselbacher (Aut) Team sainfo.co.za

6  Dean Edwards (SA) House of Paint

7  Bjorn Glasner (Ger) Team Kuota

8  Johann Rabie (SA) Team Medscheme

9  Lance Armstrong (US) Team Radioshack

10  Nicholas White (SA) Team Medscheme all same time.

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

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Build your Flash Website with Gene

I forget to mention Gene’s Gallery Draft in my last post ….

Gene Line’s Car Gallery

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Gene Line Auto Parts

Check out the Slide-show from HERE

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.

Build your Flash Website with Gene

Cars remain a popular topic and so are Gene’s slides :-)

Flash Site Draft

Here some images for Gene:

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Gene Line Motors

Draft Slides for Flash Site

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.

Mercedes SLS AMG

Still in the compilation of pictures for the Flash site, here are some car images which are great for transformation.

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Mercedes SLS 63 AMG

Check out some slides:

CLICK HERE

and enjoy!

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.

Noordhoek ready for Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010

It’s the night before tomorrow. . . and Noordhoek is ready for the cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010!

Noordhoek ready for Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010

Earlier today, I hopped out with my camera to see if Noordhoek was ready for the Cape Argus Cycle Tour – and all I saw were those distance shields as you see above!

It had considerably cooled down after the heatwave and there was a light drizzle . . . perhaps the best preparation after all! Later in the afternoon the air was abuzz with helicopters and I knew the real thing had started.

From Noordhoek it’s exactly 32 kms to the finishing line in Cape Town and as of tomorrow morning everything here will be closed off – no traffic other than those 35,000 + cyclists zooming past! You better don’t be in a hurry to get to the airport! There will be tons of fans, drummers and cheerers lining the streets, offering water and shouting encouragements for the strenuous part ahead!

What always amazes me is how well everything is organized! Once the cyclists are through it’s paper cups and empty bottles literally everywhere… and the next morning there is absolutely nothing! It’s all perfectly clean and back to normal: South Africans deserve a huge round of applause for the way they pull things together and make events so special!

The 2010 Soccer World Championship in June will be memorable – garanteed!

Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 in Noordhoek on Google Top 10

Talking of races. . . the biggest and fiercest ones these days take place on the Internet – so here’s some high performance with yesterday’s article “Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 in Noordhoek” – it went straight to Google Top 10… first through the finishing line… and this within 5 minutes. Not sure anyone will cycle that fast tomorrow . . .

Web Design Consulting

Web Design Consulting stands for high performance on the Internet and attractive designs. If this is what you need, have a look at my  SHOP HERE or get in touch with me to discuss your needs.

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

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Build your Flash Website

It’s obvious, we need some pictures for our flash website. In quest of a topic I went for a stroll through the streets of Athens, armed with my mobile phone to come back with some pictures. Sure mobile phone pics are not really what Life Mag would publish, but then I just need colors and colors again to work with in Photoshop.

Here are some of the rather mediocre pics which I will transform to smart stuff later.

Athens

OK, OK … here are also some views of the Acropolis … give it some time to load for best fun :-)

Acropolis

Here some ideas to tweak low quality images for your flash site backgrounds:

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acropolis003

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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.

Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 in Noordhoek

In the early morning hours this coming Sunday, Noordhoek will be wide awake and buzzing with helicopters monitoring and filming the first of well over 35,000 cyclists of this year’s Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 as they zoom past idyllic Noordhoek Village and up towards Chapman’s Peak and the so-called “…most beautiful coastal road in the world”.

For the many cyclists from abroad it will certainly be an “African Experience” of a kind! Read on to see who’s here!

Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 in Noordhoek

The Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 is hosted in Cape Town – 30 km North from Noordhoek – South Africa; it is a 109 km cycle race following a circular route from Cape Town down the Cape Peninsula through spectacular scenery to look at but at times quite gruelling to accomplish from a cyclist’s point of view. The start of the race is in the centre of Cape Town, following the M3 South to Muizenberg, then Main Road along the False Bay coast to Simon’s Town and Smitswinkel Bay. The route then crosses the peninsula and heads north along the Atlantic coast through Scarborough, Kommetjie, Noordhoek, Chapman’s Peak, Hout Bay, Suikerbossie Hill, eventually Camps Bay and with its finale in Green Point.

The annual event is the first event outside Europe to be included in the International Cycling Union’s Golden Bike Series.

Lance Armstrong in Noordhoek

We have seen many well-known cyclists from all over the world and this year’s star is noone else than Lance Armstrong! This man from Texas has an incredible story based on his iron willpower: having survived cancer, he won the Tour de France in 7 consecutive years. What an inspiration!

What I find interesting is how Lance communicated via Social Networks on the Internet – in this case Twitter ! The word spread faster than any newspaper could get it out… and perhaps that caused a rapid reaction and solution to his ‘full passport’ problem at the Airport. I fished some info on this from the Internet for you here…

He has been seen around already and there is no doubt we see Lance Armstrong in Noordhoek very early on Sunday morning! Well… a flash of lightning he will be – no doubt!

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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Create Your animated 3D Logo Tonight

Let’s have some fun tonight at our relaxed Friday session: create your 3D Logo and make it spin!

For tonight’s participants we have a great logo creator in store which you may want to try out … and keep for future use.

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Bianca Graphics Design

or click on the below to see the animation:

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Bianca 3D Logo

The Download link will be disabled in 3 hours from now!

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.