by Bianca Gubalke

How to Backup a Database

As part of our weekly or monthly Security and System Maintenance routine to keep our own websites and/or blogs up and running, we should clean out the overheads and backup the database or databases in our cpanel. We do the same for our Customers at Web Design Consulting who trust they can relax while the Support & Maintenance Team ensure the Top Performance of their websites and blogs.

How to Clean Overheads in a Database

Due to a number of regular requests coming in, let me show you the quick and easy steps as to How to Clean Overheads in a Database – before you back it up: 1. Log into your cpanel 2. Go to “Databases” and here click on “phpMyDatabase”. 3. On the new window that opens, to the left, you see all your databases in a vertical dropdown, in alphabetical order. Now simply tick the first of these databases, and, on the table that now opens to the right, you see the “Overheads” to the far right and added up at the bottom of that column. This is the accumulated waste you want to get rid of by optimizing the table. It will clean your blog and make it faster. What you now do is to tick “Check tables having overhead” (it’s in blue under “sum”) and as a result you will see the corresponding tables getting ticked, so you see exactly where your overheads basically came from. As a next step you tock the little drop down to the right of “Check tables having overhead” saying “With Selected” and here you select “Optimize Table”. Now let it do its job! Just wait a moment…

How to Backup a Database

Once it’s done, let’s continue exactly where we are… and I show you How to Backup a Database: 4. At the top, click on EXPORT. Don’t touch or change anything here… what you do is… 5. At the bottom, tick “gzipped” and then on “GO” to the far right. 6. If you get a popup… select “Save File” and “OK”. Now this database backup will download to your computer, to a designated folder or your “Downloads”. If you are on Firefox, you will see a note “One active download” to the bottom right of your screen. Call it up and let it do its job. We tend not to pay too much attention to backups as there’s always sooo much to do… I know! However, may this little Tutorial help you to rather be safe than sorry. And besides, if you don’t want to bother with this, remember that you can have backups automatically done for you on our Best Web Hosting Services for just $6 a year – perhaps a smart thing to do; think about it!

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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Semiomantics Consulting

Our new WP Best eShop is evolving and we are pleased to see it already well positioned on Google Top 10.

WP Best eShop

WP Best eShop for Bianca Gubalke Products already features the following Categories and Products:

• Best Web Hosting Services
• Best Domain Name registration
• Best Graphic Design
• Semiomantics Author under WP Best Themes and CMS.

We notice little items that need correction in the stylesheet. . . which we will attack soon! WP Best eShop is gonna rock!

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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Avatar the Movie by James Cameron

Avatar the Movie by James Cameron is most probably the most captivating 3D fantasy-science-fiction-action movie we have seen so far and it will definitely influence the way movies will be made in the future.

While the story has a wonderful mission and can be understood – without words – on many different levels, it touches both sides within us: the deeper knowledge and longing for wholeness and harmony with Nature … and the destructive violence of power and greed that are in constant confrontation within the fabric we human beings are being made of – and as we see it with the indigenous humanoid culture of the Na’vi on planet Pandora… it’s no different. Not yet. . .

What fascinated me most was…

~ the concept of the Avatar itself – according to Cameron “… an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. In this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human’s intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body…” which I’d like to expand into reflections as to who we ourselves actually are when incarnating in a chosen body (?) and going through a life experience or life situation;

~ the whole idea of a vast bio-botanical neural network of constant connection (think Akasha), communication and interaction – which in my view could have had much more depth, but it’s beautiful as it is presented and might just open the space to some future cinematograph who’d take these tentative beginnings much further;

~ the technical side with its amazingly photo-realistic computer-generated characters and environments

~ and the Graphic Design of it all of course!

Avatar the Movie by James Cameron

We can learn a lot from writer, producer and director James Cameron, who we all know from grand best-selling movies like “Aliens” and “Titanic”.

His goals were clearly set and he didn’t let time interfere with his vision. While he wrote the script as early as 1994 and decided that Avatar would have synthetic, computer-generated actors and a couple of leading roles “who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world” as he expressed himself, he decided that since in his view the technology at the time wasn’t ready to translate his vision in an adequate way, he waited for the right timing and focused on refining the technology for the following years.

Until 2006.

In September 2006 he declared that he would be using his own Reality Camera System to film in 3D where two high-definition cameras would be used in a single camera body to create as perception of depth.

Additionally, Cameron used new sophisticated motion-capture animation technology to create incredibly photo-realistic computer-generated characters. The difference now was that Cameron’s new virtual cameras allowed him to watch directly on a monitor how the actors’ virtual counterparts interacted with the movie’s digital world in real time and adjust and direct the scenes just as if shooting live action – instead of the normal motion-capture systems, where the digital environment is added after the actors’ motions have been captured.

“It’s like a big, powerful game engine. If I want to fly through space, or change my perspective, I can. I can turn the whole scene into a living miniature and go through it on a 50 to 1 scale.”

No wonder, to create the Pandora complex as seen in the film required over a petabyte of digital storage.

Official Avatar Movie

I see you

“I see you” could become a code word for all those having watched Avatar – and I warmly recommend you do, ideally in 3D!

I loved it – I see you there again maybe. . .

by Bianca Gubalke

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.

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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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Creating your own Web Graphics is great fun if you have:

• a Digital Camera,
• Adobe Photoshop,
• good step-by-step Tutorials and
• ideally some professional personal guidance as is regularly provided in the weekly YCADEMY Workshops and monthly YCADEMY Seminars.

Nothing is more elating and satisfying than seeing results one never thought being capable of producing!

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

One of our eminent Ycademy Members, Laetitia Paris from Auvergne in France, is eagerly following our Adobe Photoshop Tutorials on her CS4 and delighted by her attractive result following the step-by-step instructions and screenshots on “How to Combine Color and Black and White in an Image” just a few days ago: CONGRATULATIONS Laetitia Paris!

Learn Adobe Photoshop at Ycademy Workshops

You are invited to learn Adobe Photoshop at today’s Ycademy Workshop at 7 pm London in our private Microsoft Conferencing Center. Time permitting, we will continue with our Web Design Consulting Blogs and look into the WP Best eShop created at the recent Ycademy Business Building Seminar.

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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