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Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

May 21st , 2012 → 6:33 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Building Apps for mobile devices becomes crucial for online success as an increasing number of web users shift to mobile devices and as the usage stats of mobile users has already passed web usage by desktop and lap-top users in many countries. Learn how to Build a Mobile App for iOS, Android and Windows The Ycademy May Seminar will focus on App Building namely on: Types of Apps App Building Standards App Building Publishing Requirements App Building Workshops Two days are a short time to become familiar with programming language and developer kits. For this reason we will be using what we believe are the two most powerful App building software packs available for Windows to build and test our Apps. Participants can test also some of the apps directly on their mobile device. The seminar will take place on May 26 –27, 2012 from 1 p.m. till 9 p.m. London Time on each day. Seminar tickets are available with the usual discounts; get your discount code from bianca(at)ycademy.com. More details during our calls and mails from Bianca. Related posts: Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012 Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012 Ycademy Online Seminar December 12–13, 2009 Ycademy Online Seminar [...]
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Ycademy Online Seminar May 2012

May 21st , 2012 → 6:33 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Building Apps for mobile devices becomes crucial for online success as an increasing number of web users shift to mobile devices and as the usage stats of mobile users has already passed web usage by desktop and lap-top users in many countries. Learn how to Build a Mobile App for iOS, Android and Windows The Ycademy May Seminar will focus on App Building namely on: Types of Apps App Building Standards App Building Publishing Requirements App Building Workshops Two days are a short time to become familiar with programming language and developer kits. For this reason we will be using what we believe are the two most powerful App building software packs available for Windows to build and test our Apps. Participants can test also some of the apps directly on their mobile device. The seminar will take place on May 26 –27, 2012 from 1 p.m. till 9 p.m. London Time on each day. Seminar tickets are available with the usual discounts; get your discount code from bianca(at)ycademy.com. More details during our calls and mails from Bianca. Related posts: Ycademy Online Seminar January 2012 Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012 Ycademy Online Seminar December 12–13, 2009 Ycademy Online Seminar [...]
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3

May 17th , 2012 → 11:14 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Customizing WordPress Child Theme In this tutorial we will create Custom Post Types and add variables and functionality to them. Also we will add some styling for more user-friendly display in the dashboard. Having set up our basic Child Theme structure we will now proceed with the customization. But before that we will do some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned. Some basic WP Settings Here is what I do in the dashboard: 1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post. 2. Delete the default Links. 3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/ 4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins 5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at: http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed Custom Posts and Child Theme We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of [...]
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2

May 14th , 2012 → 12:25 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Build a Custom WP with Semiomantics XO This post focuses on setting up our Main Theme and a Child Theme. For the purpose of this exercise we will use Semiomantics XO as the parent theme because it’s flexible, user-friendly and highly optimized. In fact you can use most any decent WP theme to follow this tutorial, namely the TwentyEleven which comes with the WP installation. Adding a Theme Like on any live site, our test site on BitNami allows us to add themes either from the Dashboard (upload the theme’s zip file) or by pasting the theme into the themes folder in wp-contents. Access your BitNami environment using Windows Explorer and surf to the themes folder. You will see the same folders and files structure under htdocs as you are used to when accessing your WordPress folder on a server using an FTP client. In order to add Themes, we just drop theme folders into the ‘themes’ folder as per above. As you can see, I have amongst others) added my Semiomantics XO (the ‘xo’ folder under themes). XO will serve as the parent theme of the new website. Instead however of customizing XO directly, I will create a child [...]
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How to Preview your Mobile WordPress for iPhone and iPad

May 3rd , 2012 → 12:57 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

iPhone Simulator or Emulator for WordPress? Subsequent to last week’s Ycademy Seminar, I read on Bianca Gubalke’s blog a post about the difficulty to create a WordPress Mobile version without having recourse to a preview tool. As I agree with this statement, I will show you here below a simple method to preview your WordPress Mobile version for iPhone, iPod and iPad. iPhone Simulator The first question is: Do we need an iPhone Simulator at all? I have not seen a single free online iPhone Simulator which would render the mobile version of our WordPress sites. Online Simulators are therefore useless for our purpose. iPhone Emulator Free online Emulators I have come across do not generate a preview of the mobile WordPress version. There are some paid solutions which are however pretty cool and accurate, namely the MobiOne emulator included in the Studio version. There is a 14 day free trial, thereafter a $99 fee. Surprisingly the emulator included with TheAppBuilder does not render the mobile version — this would be a real plus since it’s a free tool until you want to publish your app to a store. There is a much easier to use solution out there which [...]
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Local Website Design

April 25th , 2012 → 12:07 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

How to build a Local Website Go Local is the name of the game in 2011/12 and the success of bringing the global web developments back home is a trend of the time. First it was about tagging people, now we tag locations, be it on social networks such as Facebook or on Photo sites, such as Picasa or Flickr. Based on the fact that surfers search for and prefer local business to cross border transactions, social networks namely have built in the local tags and stimulate users to hook media and events to geographically tagged locations. How to dominate the local market? In order to dominate the local market, you need to assess the use of the internet your neighbors make; chances are that they mostly hang out on social media, search Google and use email. This is of course an extremely simplified view but it gives an indication about where we need to build high visibility. You also want to have an idea about how people access the net and websites; you will notice an increased use of mobile deices, which means that your content needs to be formatted and optimized for desktops as well as for tablets [...]
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How to Optimize your Impact on Social and Mobile Networks

March 20th , 2012 → 8:15 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Ycademy: Facebook, WP and the Mobile Web Ycademy Online Seminar This month’s Ycademy Online Seminar will take place on March 24 and 25, starting at 1 pm London (GMT) time and ending at 21 pm London time on both days. Some of our developers have asked for a program covering Social Networks, namely Facebook and the Mobile Web and how to take advantage of them to distribute, promote and gain high visibility with own content. The Seminar will cover the following areas: 1. Facebook and other Social Networks Strategies for Individuals Strategies for Businesses Strategy for Brands As you may know, Facebook will change the rules of the game on March 31, when the new FB pages will be released (again!). In fact the new FB page format will be similar to the timeline format and a few important changes will be of utmost importance to businesses and promoters. New Facebook Cover Photo and Profile Image Larger, Highlighted and Pinned Posts Company Milestones New Applications Facebook Offers FB Insights, Admin Panel and Messaging Facebook Advertizing If some of the above topics do not have a meaning for you, never mind: we will deal with them and make sure you [...]
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Spectacular Lightroom 4 Lens Correction Tool

March 14th , 2012 → 1:13 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Lightroom 4 with spectacular lens Correction
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How to make WordPress Themes Responsive

January 25th , 2012 → 11:29 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Responsive Themes for WordPress Responsive Websites become a must in 2012. This tutorial demonstrates how to make your WordPress Theme Responsive. What is Responsive Web Design? In very simple terms: Responsive Web Design aims to display content adapted to the visitors screen size. This means namely that the layout width must be fluid, i.e. expressed as a percentage of the width of the screen, typefaces expressed in em and images must be scalable. Practically speaking: a responsive designs can be viewed on a smart-phone or on a large PC screen, the display will always be the same and adapted to the size of the screen or browser window. n stead of using multiple style-sheets for different screen sizes, designers use Media Queries which allow to create multiple layouts using the same content. To achieve scalability, CSS media queries, such as min-width or orientation are used. Make your WordPress Theme responsive using a Child Theme A quick and easy way consists in creating a child theme; this allows you to upgrade your theme as the case may be without altering your customizations. How to create a responsive child theme? 1. Create a new folder in your wp-content/themes folder and name it [...]
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Get the New Facebook Timeline Profile

October 3rd , 2011 → 5:38 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis

Original Article at Get the New Facebook Timeline Profile.

Get the new Facebook Profile before your Friends So, you cannot wait to get the new Facebook Profile? I understand you as FB looks kind of old and uncool. In any case, the release of the nice and clean Google + must have inspired Facebook. Even if Facebook still has to progress on ‘good taste’, it’s getting better and I even may once in a while login and follow up on some contacts. How to get the New Facebook Profile The easiest way is by joining tonight’s call at YORGO Live at 7 pm London time and we will do it together. Then of course you can do it yourself by following the steps here below. 1. Search FAcebook Developers and click : Create New App 2. Punch in a name, example: Fry a Buck 3. Enter the App Namespace, example: fry-a-buck 4. Go through the security check 5. From the manu to the left select Open Graph 6. Type in for example Fry and Buckinto the two respective fields 7. On the new page that opens, scroll to the bottom and SAVE. 8. Next page, scroll to the bottom and SAVE 9. Next page scroll to the bottom and Save and [...]