Written by Bianca Gubalke
Communication Arts, Communication Design, Design, Digital Art, Digital Photography, Editor, Google Top 10, Graphic Design Services, IT Consulting, Online Communication News, SENSES, Semiomantics, Social Media Publishing, TOUCH, WP Best eShop Theme, Web Design Consulting, Website Publishing
Aug 17, 2010
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Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at
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Photo Media Stock News
Great News: Photo Media Stock will be officially launched on 1st September 2010, focusing on serving creative professionals on the Internet, eg. web designers, graphic designers, artists, independent authors and businesses in general who all have one thing in common: to develop attractive websites and blogs by means of ‘talking’ images in form of digital photography, video, illustrations, vector graphics, audio and whatever may come in the future. Stand-alone or integration – that’s up to the buyer.
Photo Stock Media will develop organically with a dedicated Team of professionals from all over the world, people who have built considerable knowledge and skills in Web Design and Internet Marketing over the past years and serve customers on a daily basis.
Accordingly, there is a constant influx of new material for which highest quality standards will be applied.
Photo Media Stock on Google
The visual aspect of a website or blog is one thing – and it’s meant to attract, captivate and guide to a determined point of (inter-)action, however, before someone finds a website, this website needs to be ‘findable’, meaning exactly where the person with an urgent need is searching – be it on Google, other Search Engines or on Social Networks like Facebook.
The fact that “…Semiomantics Scripts are amongst the best on the Internet, if not the best…” is a bold statement and needs daily monitoring to proof its validity.
So let’s see what yesterday’s article “Photo Media Stock” does on Google – mind you, it was posted around 9 pm South African time – just before our daily Training Call – and I checked it around 9 am this morning and took the screenshot you see further down… so whether this was a performance over 2 hours, 6 hours or maximum 12 hours I cannot answer, but as you see: “Photo Media Stock” occupies position 10 on Google Top 10 – ahead of 130 Million search returns. That’s Semiomantics – what else?!
Semiomantics Web Design
Semiomantics Web Design stands for top search engine Optimization and visual Attraction – the two pillars a good, efficient website stands on – then followed obviously by high quality content posted on a regular basis. But once the framework is in place, your online Ferrari zooms off, guaranteed!
SHOP HERE.
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Life in a Day
Life in a Day turns to pure bliss when the sun is shining after icecold, stormy, gloomy winter days. Here’s a republication of my article on 18th July that got lost in the roll-back after migration of this blog to a larger server, a server with higher streaming capacities due to increased work with digital media.
Life in a Day
With the creation of the iconic classic “Bladerunner” – see my film review
HERE – Film Director Sir Ridley Scott has moved right to the top of my list of favorites in terms of movie production.
He was far ahead of time then… and he again proves to be a visionary to use the Internet to launch a highly interesting initiative on YouTube: a historic global experiment to create the world’s largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
“No excuses” Scott says…”you’ve all got a digital camera.”
Right.
Now let’s see, how much Life there is in a Day.
Website Publishing
As said above, this was written on 18th July 2010 – meanwhile I got immersed in this exciting documentary on a global scale using YouTube as a vehicle… and it was a unique journey into the Mysteries of a day as you will see in my articles over the next days… I am using Website Publishing to tell my story of that day… additionally to the Video Trilogy I created as a contribution.
So exciting how many people from all around the world were motivated and show a glimpse within their 24 hours of Life in a Day – whether with professional video equipment, a normal standard digital camera (as I did with my simple NIKON Coolpix P90), or their iPhone or even webcam!Something anyone has these days…
“No excuses” said Scott!
2011 Sundance Film Festival
These people were not driven by financial considerations as there’s nothing to be earned – except being a name in the long line of credits of the final product… and the few best of the best being invited to the 2011 Sundance film Festival where the documentary will be launched…
But what a totally amazing Vision and Concept – I just love it and wanted to be part of this!
Movies are like a fever… and having been forced to be ‘abstinent’ for such a long time, it grabbed me again from head to toe!
No music allowed due to copyright issues… just original sounds.
To be continued…
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Silvermine Nature Reserve
Silvermine Nature Reserve – along Ou Kaapse Weg when coming from Cape Town, South Africa, and driving over these stunning mountain ranges towards Noordhoek – has just exploded with gold!
Silvermine Nature Reserve
Sweeping vistas from Silvermine Nature Reserve with a gentle mist dissolving in the early morning sunlight.
Although I experimented with filters in a couple of monochrome versions, I love the above untouched original digital picture from my simple Nikon Coolpix P90 as it’s so authentic and documenting a very special day.
Imagine with this a very soft breeze rustling through the leaves of the typical fynbos… the already withering ericas overgrown by strikingly energetic leucadendrons… and the occasional twitter of those beautiful little long-tailed sunbirds circling up into the crystalline air….
Magic!
Website Publishing
Website Publishing is our main concern when firstly trying to reach Google Top 10 positions – and then holding them. This automatically means visibility and traffic – and from here it’s about attracting and keeping visitors, readers and potential buyers through captivating images, graphics and other forms of media – meaning a great Web Design – a Web Design like Semiomantics that is customized and optimized for each customer individually and prooves its efficiency every single day.
This article was posted earlier… but due to a server migration and a corresponding roll-back, it was lost in the process. However, I love this picture and wanted to share it again.
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Monkey Valley Resort Events presents Hypnotist Alan Marriott
As the FIFA Soccer World Cup madness in South Africa drifts into the past, Monkey Valley Resort Events Manager Darren Byrne kicked off a fun & entertainment goal by presenting International Stage Hypnotist and “Man of the Mind” – Dr. Alan Marriott – on Saturday, 24th July 2010.
Monkey Valley Resort Events presents Hypnotist Alan Marriott
“Monkey Valley Resorts Events presents Hypnotist Alan Marriott” ran like a wave through Noordhoek, South Africa, and its surroundings… and the warm and cosy Conference Room at Monkey Valley Resort – all under thatched roof and low light projecting magic shadows over the wooden panels – was packed with a vibrant audience… And the owls hooed softly in the old milkwoods as the full moon appeared…
Not sure how the wood-fired pizza tasted as Alan Marriott drove that enormous solid nail through that mind of his . . . :)
Good News: he will be back! Don’t miss a great hour of Fun, Entertainment… and Wisdom beyond the Jokes!
Hypnotist Alan Marriott on Google Top 10
Following yesterday’s brief post, I am monitoring results of “Hypnotist Alan Marriott” on Google Top 10 – so where are we?
On the screenshot below you see that we captured 3 positions of the 10 available on page ONE on Google – that’s the Power of Semiomantics Web Design with smart Website Publishing!
We’ll be back with more soon. . .
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Bistro Sixteen82
Creating a modern Web Design for a client in today’s media-oriented virtual world means: Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
Always carry a digital camera with you as – besides improving your photographic skills as a non-professional photographer – you just never know when your photographic Artwork is required. With good Digital Cameras within anyone’s reach we see many perhaps not excellent photos but certainly a quality we have never seen so widely spread.
Celebrating a special time at the relatively new Bistro Sixteen82 last week was just one of those occasions… and I will be back soon with more pictures! The architecture, the style… everything is just totally captivating and deserves some Website Publishing… although the website of Steenberg Vineyards itself needs to catch up big time! Please click on the (compressed) image for better viewing!
Bistro Sixteen82 – Black & White or Color?
Bistro Sixteen82 in Black & White or in Color… that’s the question, especially if you like the fine lines, volumes and light & shadow plays revealed without color interference.
However, there’s an incredible Artwork on this picture that needs color – especially the red and the green… representing white grapes and red grapes. . . the essence of a vineyard… and the story behind all of this will betold soon :)
Yes, I did posterize the colors a bit; I plan something specific with the exquisite originals; patience!
More on
Steenberg Vineyards soon . . .
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Best Look Web Design
Best Look Web Design combines within it the two elements that make or break a successful Website or Blog when it comes to SEO: an attractive visual part – the LOOK – and the alchemy of code in the background.
Please click the picture for enlarged better viewing.
Contrary to my previous example, I did not work with any stroke or shadow to frame the Artwork, but let the picture flow into the white background of my blog. It’s only in experimenting and testing that we come to our preferred conclusions and make our choices.
Best Look Web Design
I developed these versions of “Best Look” Web Design for the upcoming Ycademy Seminar that will focus on Facebook, and taught the same basics at last night’s Ycademy Workshop, to be directly executed on Adobe Photoshop.
I’m looking forward to seeing some examples on partner websites later in the day :).
Semiomantics Web Design on Google
Meanwhile, we keep monitoring the results of our daily publications.
And WOW! Yesterday’s post on “Semiomantics Web Design” went straight to Google Top 10 within just a few minutes – you see it now on positions 1 and 2 ahead of the competition even today. Please note the number of Web Design Ads – Google Ads – on the right-hand side, that are competing with us on this top ranking! Click the (compressed) image to enlarge it.
Qualified Semiomantics Experts
This is exactly your choice: pay 24/7/365 for Google Ads with forever rising costs – or invest in a good Semiomantics Script setup by one of the very few “Qualified Semiomantics Experts” and work your way to the top on your targeted keywords – and stay there.
Look forward to a new version of
Semiomantics Evolution!
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Semiomantics Web Design
Semiomantics Web Design includes the laborious creation of SEO optimized Semiomantics Scripts that reach Google Top 10 positions in a fast and reliable way – if set up and run correctly.
This is the invisible part, the awe-inspiring coding, so to speak the powerful engine of our unique and time-proven online Ferrari called “Semiomantics”.
Please click on the (compressed) picture above to enlarge it for optimal viewing.
Semiomantics Web Design
The other part of our Semiomantics Web Design is an elegant, expressive and in any way eye-catching Web Design with captivating Web Graphics and pulling Ads that has to ensure that once a visitor, a reader or a potential customer has reached our website he’s magnetized, glued to it and will happily follow whatever pipeline we have foreseen.
Best Look
After last night’s Ycademy Workshop on the introduction, setup and application of Expression Web, I created some designs on my personal topic “BEST LOOK” in Adobe Photoshop in preparation of the Ycademy Seminar this coming weekend… where I count on heavy connectivity problems given the general FIFA 2010 Soccer Worldcup fever in sunny, vibrant and simply the best South Africa…
The Ycademy Seminar will be focusing on the changed Facebook with its many features and possibilities as well as its restrictions and limitations, and our obligation as online Service and/or Product providers to have a professional and efficient online presence – not only on Google Top 10 but also in Social Networks like Facebook, meaning the place where most of the people online like to hang out these days – and this without spending (… and losing…) the precious time that we want to invest in our business – in my case Semiomantics Web Design.
More on “Best Look” to come, stay tuned . . .
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Digital Photography 2010 Basics
Digital Photography 2010 is the topic we are focusing on this month in our daily calls and workshops as well as in the Ycademy Seminar April 2010.
A crash course on Digital Photography demands a lot of preparation on one side … and preparedness in terms of our seminar participants following each course very attentively and executing the requested exercises – as while theory is one thing and essential for our understanding especially of technical features or sequences, it can never replace one’s own shooting experience.
Portrait of a Parrot - Untouched
What I will do over the next two weeks are short workshop resumes with possibly a personal emphasis on what interests me specifically; I say ’short’ – as nothing can replace the value of being at the daily workshops yourself, following the teaching, testing and doing what needs to be done to learn new skills or improve them. You cannot learn to meditate without experiencing what meditation is through meditating yourself. The same applies to digital photography – or anything of real value anyway.
Please also be aware that only Workshop participants and Seminar ticket holders will have access to recordings.
Digital Photography Basics
Digital Photography Basics are fundamental for anyone’s professional visual presence on the Internet and there are only three ways of achieving this:
- BE a good photographer already
- LEARN how to create good quality digital images – or
- BUY digital photos from the many stock sources there are.
Digital Photography 2010 on Google
As we continue to monitor the performance of our Semiomantics Scripts and corresponding articles and posts on Google, here is another astonishing result of yesterday’s article regarding Digital Photography 2010 on Google – an amazing position 5 on Google Top 10 with search returns of almost 55 million :
Get your top performing Semiomantics Script and my guidance
HERE.
To be continued soon . . .
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Noordhoek Flash Introduction
After yesterday’s first excursion into creating a Noordhoek Flash Introduction, here is today’s experiment – just click on the image below to see it.
This time, I experimented with a single background picture I had previously created with a simple focus on the text panels only. The music that accompanies this flash reminds of the unique joyful twittering of the little sunbirds I featured here and that are very typical for Noordhoek Cape Town. You can see a whole series in my Picture Gallery at the top. Through the play of opposites I created a vague impression of another typical creature in Noordhoek: the leopard toad, an endangered species that plays a critical role in keeping our gardens clear of certain destructive elements.
Noordhoek Flash Introduction
Whether it’s a Noordhoek Flash Introduction or any other reason to make a certain tool or software ‘work’ the way we want, it’s like with a musical instrument or Photoshop: it’s all about getting familiar with the technique, finding out how things work, what produces what and how certain combinations are better than others. The more experience we gather the better we become, respectively the results we produce.
I know already what I will try out tomorrow! I’m having Fun!
Captivating Flash Intros in WP Best eShop
Captivating Flash Intros are a dynamic, smart and beautiful way to draw peoples’ attention to your main blog where you then feature your products and services.
Flash Introductions are brilliant sales tools in as much as they are aiming at captivating and leading to another target, the REAL target, where business transactions take place. It’s not too long and like a trailer, an appetizer, a dream catcher!
As you see, I start enjoying myself and while perfection comes with practice, I could imagine designing Flash Intros for just any occasion, website or blog!
Flash Introductions will be offered in WP Best eShop – click
HERE.
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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.
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