As I said in my previous post, Anna and I are moving to Italy and I’ll have plenty to write and pictures to show that won’t fit here. So, by popular request, The Bee Side of Zo’C blog is born.
The Bee Side of Blog is just that, a B-side. I make no promises except that I’ll keep my writing style and the usual felling but the themes may vary. It is a blog in which the only off-topic subjects would be the ones that perfectly fit this one (the A side, if you wish).
You are welcome to join me in new themes and much more fun that is not web/software/photography/design related.
The title of the last posts of the Bee Side blog will be shown on the sidebar on the section named “What is happening on Bee Side of Zo’C”. You can also subscribe the mailing list or sign the feed.
Dear readers, I apologize for the long time the blog has been left outdated. Most of the time I try to keep my writing on about 1~2 posts per week, but lately I have been just too busy.
I do have a bank of posts for the hard hours that is actually a large one but, I must confess, nothing on it is completely finished and revised. Yes I know, shame on me!
The reason why I am in such a hurry is that Anna and I are permanently moving to Europe in less than two weeks, and the amount of time such a move consumes is just huge.
I actually wrote that post thinking on some friends of mine that needed to do just that, but published it as a post because I thought many people would be interested, so I sent an email to the nice people at Etc blog, and they were kind enough to feature it.
A fluid layout for a web page is one that adapts itself to the window size, an elastic layout is one that adapts itself to text size. When nothing of this happens, the layout is said to be fixed.
A layout that Fluid and Elastic is a step towards a future with high screen resolutions
One of my great ambitions for the Z’oC Layout was to have a layout that was both fluid and elastic layout, and this is just what I have done. I completely redesigned the layout to be fluid, elastic and more reader friendly.
A layout that is both fluid and elastic means that you are able to take advantage of all screen, whatever format and resolution your public may have and, additionally, means that you can increase the text size a lot without breaking the layout. read full post…
It is curious how sometimes either you are so glad with your own learning path that you are terrified with the possibility that it have been different or else, you admire so much someone elese’s knowledge that you anguish yourself for experiences you hadn’t.
Like many other people, I had felt both those feelings before and I am sure I will again.
I think this is much the feeling on this post about digital photography and the learning oportunities being missed by the lack of obstacles, now overcame, of traditional photography (like film prices and a long developping process).
I migh identify myself with the feeling, but I do not share the mixed feelings about technology he describes, at least not from the creative point of view nor the learning experience.
The Zo’C website had an outage of about 5 hours today. Actually Dreamhost had and outage and for some reason the Apache configuration of my account was corrupted.
Sorry for those who tried to reach the site and couldn’t.
Now the Z’oC site is back. Not all domains I host are working properly, but Dreamhost support team is already taking care of the issue.
On february 22, 2006 the Zo’C blog started as a gourmet blog about food and lifestyle, but the need for a broader subject made design , photography, web development, book reviews and a couple of more things to show up.
Initially it was a project together with my wife, but I ended up giving her the annazuhlke.com domain and she started her own blog that now resides at www.annazuhlke.com/whiterabbit. By the way, that is where the Zo’C name comes from, it stands fror Zühlke-O’Connor, the common part of our surnames.
As a birthday present to myself and the Zo’C blog. I have upgraded it from the basic blogger blog to a fully hosted WordPress blog in dreamhost.
It took me over a day to take the old and nice Zo’C layout and implementing it to suit the base of the wonderful Sirius theme. Also I had to tweak a lot of the internal PHP to make it look just like the old one.
In face of models dying of anorexia and on the other hand, almost every woman that is not a model finding herself ugly, the Dove campaign for real beauty is not only a beatiful and brave advertising campaign, but is also an inspired humane one.
I have recieved a lot of nice feedback regarding the new layout of the Zo’C blog and one of the most commented items is the logo, and people wonder where idea came from.
The idea came from a little wooden owl that I have for years, since I was a kid.
I don’t really know, how it happened to become mine, but I have it for more than two decades now, and it is been sitting over my computer’s monitor for almost a decade.
So I decided that this nice and loyal little fellow would give good inspiration for the logo.
The logo is actually its silhouette, cutted vertically on halves and mirrored, to have perfect simetry.
The owl being a symbol for people who like to work at night, like most computer related developers is a nice plus, but was not the main reason for the choice.
GuilhermeZühlke O'Connor is a passionated Web Designer and Developer focused on Web Standards and the web ahead of us currently working as a Webdev for
Yahoo! Europe
inLondon, UK.
On his free time he enjoys cinema, travelling, cooking and eating.
As I said in my previous post, Anna and I are moving to Italy and I’ll have plenty to write and pictures to show that won’t fit here. So, by popular request, The Bee Side of Zo’C blog is born.
