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March 11, 2010

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WP Best NewsPaper Theme

By Zo Nicholas

WP Best NewsPaper Theme

Choosing a new theme to use for a website is not a decision to be taken lightly. There are a few issues to consider carefully and it all really depends on the main purpose of the website. Once the purpose is agreed upon then choosing the correct theme is a more simplified process. One of the best themes around that I know of is the WP Best Newspaper Theme – a theme that can be applied to most any purpose as it is so adaptable and can be used as a basic platform for most anything.

The WP Best Newspaper Theme based on the Semiomantics NewsCast Script is an all time favourite with many online publishers. The Best WP Newspaper Theme is one of many themes developed and tuned by Semiomantics. The theme utilises an attractive layout, magazine or news, that introduces both text and graphics and is suitable for countless online applications such as gardening news, car sales, real estate, holidays just to name a few.

Best WP NewsPaper Features

Here are just a few of the features that make this newspaper theme administratively friendly:

* Easy to admin area – navigate through various sections with ease
* Media Gallery for both images/photos and video
* Auto image resizer – easily display photos and images
* Easy to use category navigation
* Countless Widgets increasing flexibility of layout and composition.
* Banner Ad Management area
* Small Ad Management area
* Ideal for product integration
* Easily adapted for Social Network Marketing

As with any other newspaper, the ad management areas can be used to sell advertising space to clients or as an advertising space for personal products or affiliate marketing.

The Newspaper theme is also very much a firm favourite with many marketers who use it as a platform to display products with both images and detailed product information creating a very eye catching display. You can take any plain site and turn it into an attractive feature-rich portal. With its ease of customisation its a quick and easy way to have a professional looking site.

Best WP NewsPaper by Semiomantics

Not everyone has the time to take out from their busy schedule or business to learn how to set up a site nor how to configure it to reach the highest performance levels on search engines as is needed to successfully market products online. At Small Busines Consulting we take the time to listen to your specific business requirements to provide you with the best possible solution.

Best WP Newspaper Theme Performance

WP Best Newspaper Theme is a finely tuned Semiomatics script with unequaled high performance on Google Top 10 ranking and stability. The Best WP Newspaper Theme by Semiomantics is only available at selected eShops online – it comes, set up, configured, fully optimised and delivered to you upon completion of your order, ready to use. All work on the site is carried out by a licenced Semiomantics Consultant to provide you with complete customer satisfaction.

Working From Home News adapted as a Home Business Online Newspaper with the latest home business news.

Gardentalk News adapted as an online Home Garden news and tips newspaper and product advertising.

Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books… Childrens Book Covers… or Cool Books for Kids – whatever you name it: this topic has always been of great importance to parents who really care when it comes to the education of their youngsters. I’m especially thinking of mothers of all ages hunting for something of value for their kids or grand-kids to look at and read when it concerns Childrens Books.

Here, the first point of contact can be decisive: the Childrens Book Cover Design. Here is one of my Nostalgic Designs, which you can see more clearly in yesterday’s post HERE.

Book Covers for Kids Books on Google Top 10

As part of our daily monitoring routine, here’s what yesterday’s post on “Book Covers for Kids Books” did on Google Top 10 … and this within just a few hours and ahead of 48,8 Million search returns:

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For any Web Design or Graphic Design requirements and similar SEO results please don’t hesitate to contact us at Web Design Consulting or go directly to my SHOP HERE.

Microsoft Office Ycademy Seminar February 2010

Interesting how yet another circle closes… and while designing Book Covers and wrapping them up for an attractive presentation on the web is one thing, the other aspect is to prepare the Artwork for Printing.

This and many related topics will be part of the upcoming Microsoft Office Ycademy Seminar February 2010 which will mark the beginning of a new chapter of teachings giving all participants an advantage above and beyond not only most Internet users but also in setting up their Home based business in a professional high-end customer-oriented manner.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Book Covers for Kids Books

Book Covers for Kids Books are not only important for the children who read the book or look at the pictures while the stories are being read to them, but it’s what attracts the parents to consider this book in the first place. There was a happy time in my life when I focused entirely on children in my professional work: especially childrens books illustrations and movies for children.

There are always some pieces one is specifically attached to; this is the case with the illustration I included in this book cover here:

Book Covers for Kids Books

In our fast-moving world Book covers for Kids Books seem like a thing from the past, however, my experience is that children here simply love looking at pictures that were created with love… especially if they are being introduced to them in an entertaining way; they just seem to feel what went in and it resonates. A precious book cover can be a treasure box of bedtime stories and… a wonderful and unique gift idea.

We keep adding more of these items to our new online SHOP HERE; please visit and contact me with your wishes and ideas! With kids there are no limits – and there’s a big kid within each of us… just set it free!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Best Buy Sneakers in London

By Zo Nicholas

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Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Bookcovers for your Own Books

by Bianca Gubalke

Bookcovers for your Own Books

Bookcovers always fascinated me… especially with my past experience with large Publishing Houses in Germany for which I did the Graphic Design for Books – meaning the entire layout, often the illustrations and absolutely everything inside … except the book cover.

The fact was that they had contracts with companies that specialized entirely in book covers… and here the only criteria was the Marketing aspect: brief… to sell the book, tons of them!

Obviously, the Internet with its avalanche of ebooks and fantastic professional graphic programs like Adobe Photoshop have drastically changed the arena and the good news is that with this change came a certain form of independence and a shift in responsibility. You no longer have to wait … if you are ready and determined, it’s now in your own hands to not only write and publish but to also create Bookcovers for your Own Books or to find someone who does it for you at an affordable price!

Bookcovers for your Own Books

With Imagination, the right basic material in form of digital photos or some good web graphics, plus Photoshop and finally the right Action Script, you can do wonders in creating Bookcovers for your Own Books today, and this with a few mouse-clicks… yes, this took hard work in the past and the results weren’t always convincing, especially if this wasn’t your main area of interest.

Besma Goes West – the Book

I was inspired by the idea of going totally minimalistic and prooving that could be done with just ONE PICTURE!

'Besma Goes West' by Bianca Gubalke – 2009

Starting off with the above Digital Artwork I published just as she left the “old world”, I created the above Book Cover for our friend Besma Bashier today.

Today, Besma has finally happily settled in the USA and will – sooner or later – share her experience as an emigrant and her wise and caring guidance for others following the same route, in her own ebook. Where there is a bookcover there is – at least there could be! – an ebook!

Besma will be joining our next Ycademy Business Building Seminar at the end of this month and we are all looking forward to having her back with us again!

Book covers at WP Best eShop

I am happy to announce that finally I will add the creation of Bookcovers to WP Best eShop. Any topic or theme is welcome!

It seems the offline-online circle closes . . . and I can go to the Beach!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Photoshop Action Scripts

by Bianca Gubalke

Photoshop Action Scripts

Before the next heatwave is hitting Noordhoek, South Africa, and forces me into the turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean… I thought I’d have some fun with Photoshop Action Scripts and create one of those elegant page curls!

Photoshop Action Scripts

Photoshop Action Scripts are just brilliant for shortcuts the professional way! It also means that we can serve our customers better and provide them with captivating web graphics and great Graphic Design Services that make their blogs and websites simply stand out!

At Web Design Consulting we are committed to offering the best – and this means consistent learning and acquiring of new skills and investing in the best tools and equipment.

How to Create a Page Curl

I remember sweating when trying to Create a Page Curl in Adobe Photoshop for the first time… years back on PS5.

Today, it’s just a matter of a few mouse-clicks and it’s done.

What I noticed, however, is that there are quite some quality differences in Action Scripts, some render better results than others… so the Art is to find what suits our needs the best.

Photoshop Ycademy Workshops

Learn more about how to improve your Knowledge and Skills at our regular Photoshop Ycademy Workshops.

Having said that… and while our SHOP is avaliable 24/7/365… I will do one more post for a dear friend and I’m off to the Beach!

Meet ya there!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Semiomantics NewsCast Style

by Bianca Gubalke

Semiomantics NewsCast Style

Semiomantics NewsCast is a YORGOO Press script developed by Semiomantics.

Semiomantics NewsCast Style surprises with an attractive Newspaper layout that can be turned into various styles – think of the Wall Street Journal, a Tax or Accounting Journal, an Arts & Culture Chronicle, a Kids’ Book Advisor, a Town and Community Magazine, a Flower Guide and countless other applications.

NewsCast Semiomantics for Touch Vision Talk

NewsCast for Touch Vision Talk – TOP half

Semiomantics NewsCast Style

What strikes immediately with NewsCast – as with newspapers in general: the division into clearly separated grids and columns and – following the saying that “…a picture tells a 1000 stories” – many pictures.

An additional and very practical feature is the automated image resizing that always garantees an appealing and interesting Homepage even for people with little time who syndicate most of their content – ideally from their own Author Blog and some selected and theme-oriented contributing authors.

Semiomantics NewsCast for Touch Vision Talk – BOTTOM Part

Sell Advertising Space on NewsCast

A quick way to get back your investment and cash in is by using the many hooks for online Advertising and sell Advertising Space on NewsCast.

Yes! You can insert Google Ads! Yes! You can bring up your Amazon Store…yes! You can a lot of things on this flexible yet well organized Blog!

If you are creating a busy Town or Community Blog about your area, you could imagine many local Business owners, artists, lawyers and doctors… the baker, the vet, the garage owner and the astrologer etc wanting to offer their services on your Blog to reach out to the local community that meets regularly online. Sometimes we don’t know our neighbour… and it could just be the therapist or carpenter we urgently need to get a job done!

Which brings us to another important feature we find on Semiomantics NewsCast:

NewsCast and Social Network Marketing

NewsCast is extremely flexibile and its categories and widgets are enabled for advanced Social Network Marketing. Various information streams to and from Social Networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr can be easily managed.

To come back to the thought above: as many of our neighbours hang out on Social Networks and often search for people in their area – bingo! meet your neighbour on Facebook and make that appointment without having to search any further!

NewsCast High Performance

To drive a NewsCast to High Performance it is essential to focus on configuring the site and editing posts according to the recommendations by Web Design specialists at Web Design Consulting. Each single post is entered into the framework in a way designed to cause rapid indexation and listing by Google.Yes! It’s all being prepared for you once you get your NewsCast Script… so YOU can focus what YOU enjoy doing and, for the rest, get on with your main business.

As we see from our stats, the high Performance on Google Top 10 for this Semiomantics NewsCast script is spectacular and you may well consider getting your own at our WP Best eShop HERE !

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Basic Photoshop Filter Challenge

by Bianca Gubalke

Basic Photoshop Filter Challenge

In my previous post less than 10 minutes ago, I announced the “Basic Photoshop Filter Challenge”.

What Basic Photoshop Filter was applied here?

Basic Photoshop Filter Challenge on Google

For once, I went a few minutes later to check what my post “Basic Photoshop Filter Challenge” was doing on Google… and here’s the smashing result:

Number ONE on Google ahead of 19,600,000 Google Search returns!

Semiomantics Google Top 10 Torpedo

Want to have similar results?

Get a Semiomantics Google Top 10 Torpedo in our WP Best eShop – attend Ycademy Workshops and Seminars … and make it to the top!

We Deliver Results!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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Branding Yourself Online

By Zo Nicholas

Branding Yourself Online

Following upon on my previous posts about branding and branding your business online it is also important to brand yourself, taking control of your own name, your image and your reputation, and your authority, if you don’t others will do it for you and maybe even not too kindly.

Personal Branding

Personal branding is all about ‘YOU’, who you are and what you stand for, and how you want others to see you, your personal identity. First impressions are still so important. This impression online is created by what you write about, how you write it and how you present yourself visually via a personal blog, website or these days on any of the interactive social media sites like Facebook. Today online its about transparency, being visible, openness and accountability.

Developing your personal brand, your personal style comes with time but the ‘basic elements’ of who you are remain the same. Developing ‘YOU’ comes from a lot of soul searching and from digging deep in your own ‘Secret Garden’, which is certainly not an over night affair.

Your Personal Brand

Your Personal Brand is all about communication, letting others communicate with you, creating trust and empathy. Every visual aspect of you, your business, your personal information portrays you. Always be true to you!

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland

Personal Blog

To have a Personal blog or website is a real ‘MUST HAVE’, in order to be in total control of your name, your image and what you stand for. A place where you can portray yourself in who you are and what you do, your like and dislikes, building your authority. A complete package that can be identified as you in your writing, your style and your images.

AND….. it is all very much tied up in the wrapping, the presentation. It all counts. Your site communicates, builds empathy, builds relationships. Blogs are very much an asset these days as they increase your visibility ranking higher on search engines.

You may not be the worlds best but demonstrating your authenticity, integrity, honesty goes a long way to creating a positive image online.

Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Valentines Day Gifts

by Bianca Gubalke

Valentine’s Day Gifts

Here’s wishing everybody a “Happy Valentine’s Day” on 14 February 2010!

While it’s a bit late to start looking into preparing more sophisticated Valentine’s Day Gifts today, it’s never too late for Valentine’s Gift Ideas that go beyond buying a red rose, a pack of funnily formed chocolates or a bottle of Schnaps!

Valentine’s Day Gifts – Elegant DVD Packaging

Why not consider some Elegant DVD Packaging for your Valentine’s Day Gifts next year? Or for any other upcoming occasion like a Birthday, Promotion, Easter…?

In my example here, I wrapped up a collection of beautiful digital pictures I took this year – my most precious moments on Noordhoek Beach South Africa 2010. I added some “unaccomplished music” that fits this spectacular high tide scenario perfectly – if you know which one I mean - and dedicated it to “My Valentine” in the Title.

Quality is obviously always the most important criterium. Firstly of the photo or background image and of course the typography. There are free fonts and those we pay heavily for – and the difference becomes especially obvious once we leave the virtual world and go into the Printing process! I was quite pleasantly surprised how well the two free fonts came out here.

In the detail above I took a screenshot of the original Valentine’s DVD Packaging Image I created and rendered at just medium quality (40) to keep the loading speed down. It’s all part of the ongoing learning process; experience – sometimes pretty painful – and attentive observation are my best teachers… and of course I have an absolute admiration for the real “Masters” !

Just click on the images and they will open in a bigger format in the overlay… takes just a few seconds.

Valentine’s Day Gift Packaging

Valentine’s Day Gift Packaging is just another product item that will grow over time and feature in my SHOP for anyone to choose from.

I so much enjoy doing any form of Graphic Design or Digital Artwork… and letting my ideas hijack my creativity and refine my skills!

Photoshop Ycademy Workshops

Here I present the original and untouched image as well as a black and white version. Depending on the atmosphere, ambience or mood we want to achieve to suit the special occasion, the color can be easily adapted and changed and even manipulated or wrapped around another shape, ebook, box or jewel case for instance.

Being well equipped with the right Graphic Design Tools and the knowledge and skills taught in Photoshop Ycademy Workshops there is no limit to our imagination in pampering those we love with something personal and special – even on Valentine’s Day!

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.

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