Recently, the Manage all your email accounts with Gmail post on Zo’C has been featured on lifechacker.com, which is a huge step for a still young blog.
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.
Trying to increase the quality of service of the Zo’C blog and trying to reduce my effort to manage spam and approve comments quicky I’ve just instaled the Comment-Policy Wordpress plugin.
I decided to share a list of my favorite Wordpress plugins for those of you who might be interested, but before anything else, I want to encourage people to use Wordpress instead of Blogger.
There are many well regarded blogging platforms around that I don’t really know well, but I do know well blogger and wordpress and I certainly think that blogger is not nearly a serious platform as Wordpress is.
I won’t extend this subject on this post, you’ll have to trust me on this, but I do want to give three arguments in favor of wordpress.
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.
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Just a quick message.
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.
Have fun.
Paulo Gazela is a talented musician living in Campinas, Brazil. He sings, plays the harmonica and composes for several musical projects he runs, mostly on Blues.
He has a very rich experience playing with leading musicians like Brazil-wide famous Flavio Guimarães, harmonica player of Blues Etílicos and American harmonica player R.J. Mischo.
Also, Paulo Gazela happens to be an old friend if mine, and I was seriously honored when he chose me to rebuild his whole site from the scratch.
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.
Well, not quite…
This post is just to wish all my faithful readers as well as the readers passing by a very, very cool Christmas.
Have fun!
My flickr has reached 1000 views, mark that the Zo’C blog had already reached some weeks ago.
This may not seem a lot, but still I’m happy with this, because, after all, both are very young.
So I’ll celebrate publishing this commemorative picture.
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.
Guilherme
is a Web Designer focused on web standards and the web ahead of us.
On his free time he enjoys cinema, travelling, cooking and eating.
