about this website
Created by rocksea on 16 Dec 2005 | Category: prakriti
History
Started this website way back in 2001, with a few pages in yahoo gecoities. As I grew up, the website also grew up in time and since 2004 I’ve been hosting independently. Idea behind this website is to use it as a portal for environmental, entertainment & educational purposes.
Content & Copyright
Almost all the content on this website are own original designs, from the graphics, photographs, cartoons to the write-ups and poetry. Even those cormorants you see on the top image were photographed from Kerala! Several utilities have been helpful in creating them, of which I wish to mention a few significant in Other Credits.
Other Credits
This website is basically structured on the weblog software WordPress, which uses php & html. Several themes and hacks have been added to this structure, from various sources. The final theme and templates you see are own designs. The graphics, cartoons etc were mostly edited using Adobe Photoshop, an image editing software. The content in Malayalam and other Indian languages were edited using baraha, a mult-lingual editor. JAlbum, a web photo album software, helped in organizing the nature photographs as a beautiful gallery. The genealogy section is powered by The Next Generation genealogy sitebuilding (TNG) scripts, which is commercially available.
The Photographs
Nikon D80 + Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens + Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical Lens + Tamron SP AF 200-500mm f/5-6.3 Di LD (IF) Zoom Lens.
Olympus C770 UZ + Olympus TCON-17 Zoom Lens + Olympus MCON-40 Macro Lens.
Structure of the website
On the top navigation bar are the links,
- Activities Social activities and related research based on adoption in India and AIDS.
- Photography Includes sections on:
- Nature Photographs of birds, insects, marine life from India, Japan and Italy
- Other Photographs from India, Japan and Italy
- Photographic articles on this websites
- Compilation of some photographs from my old site. mostly people and abstract images.
- Poems on love, nostalgia and whatever. Poems and write-ups from when I was at school to a grown up young man.
- Hand Embroidery. Hand Embroidery tutorials by Sarah, with instructions and illustrations.
- മലയാളം ബൂലോഗം. ബൂലോഗം = ബ്ളോഗ് + ലോകം. boologam = blog + lokam. ബൂലോഗം as in the lingo used by malayalam bloggers. Please check http://www.rocksea.org/malayalam-unicode for rendering malayalam characters (including koottaksharangal and chillaksharangal) properly.
- Roots. The family tree. Genealogy of a Kerala Christian Family.
- Misc. About the website, our resumes and the rest of rocksea.org
Fantastic work, Rock-sea.
Makes people want to know more about you. you have preserved the sense of intrigue in this website..
Rocksea,
Great to know tat ur a nature’z lover..read ur kavitha,”hostel muriyude jaalakvathilkkal mazha ethi nokkiyappol kuricha kavitha,athu enteyum ivanioz hostel jeevitham ormippikkunnu”
Keep’up ur great work..
Best of Luck
Kiranz..!!
http://www.malayalamsongslyrics.com
da the site looks greatttttttt!!! Spectacular…..I loved it…tooo kewl!!!
Hi Roxy, it’s a nice site.. but the Malayalam sections r litl bit annoying, u know, becoz there r no ‘koottaksharam’.. all letters r split.. difficult to read also.. just feeling like killing our mother tongue.. if possible convert all Malayalam articles to picture format.. with proper letters..
Regards,
anoop
$Anoop. The koottaksharangal all shows well, if you use the font AnjaliOldLipi or similar fonts. I have pointed out in each malayalam article a link on how to set it. Thatz what all malayalam bloggers do. We all write out in Unicode malayalam. Putting malayalam in picture format is not encouraged by us.
Check this link for rendering malayalam properly:
http://www.rocksea.org/malayalam-unicode
For a start, you can see the malayalam wikkipedia, totally in malayalam unicode:
http://ml.wikipedia.org
roxy
this couldnt be any better
good job
hard work paid well
congrats
hi!!, iam here at ur kingdom cusat!!!!!!!!!! as an oceanography student
hi!!, iam here at ur kingdom cusat!!!!!!!!!! as an oceanography student. nice
renjith, happy to see you. enjoy your life at cusat!
hi am also from cusat nw in bglore. its really a great thing.. a beautiful site it is …
after seeing ur photographs feel like im at home kerala. nw frm office feeling home sick ..
good work
bye
Thanks for the comment. You can go back to Kerala whenever you wish
i.e. it is not so difficult. What abt poor me 
I have to wait one more year to get back to home. so dont make me sick too :p What did you do at cusat? mca? Anyways, have a nice time.
Hello,
Gr8 work. Nice to meet u again in the web…..after a long time !!!.
Site looks cool !!! Well organized….and no “CHAVAR” !!!!!!!!!
hello!! happy to see you here
i had gone thru your website as well and downloaded some pdfs.. but couldnt comment there as the guestbook wasnt working. have a nice time!
I was searching for bird pics in google got your site ..grihathuratvam niranju nilkkunnu….. “this website is a collage made up of your minds screen shots” …
Binu
toonbird.com
binu, i was stunned to see your web, so nature friendly and animated! i love the thunnaran at the welcome page.
Hi Rocks,
I m a regular visitor of ur site.Basically i visit here for Civil Services related Materials.
Previously,u had put NCERT books on ur site(http://www.rocksea.org/ncert-text-books) but now that has been removed.We need that urgently.Even the books in chapterwise format was really very helpful specially for people like us who are in Job.
Kindly make those books available for us.We will be very grateful to u.Looking forward for ur positive response.
Dear Kundan Kumar, am sorry for what happened, it seems yesterday or day before yesterday i accidently deleted that post instead of a comment. Only now when you mentioned this i am aware it is the whole post of ncert books. I will replace it in 2 days or so. Thank you.
Kundan, thanks, i have restored the post and some of the comments. You should be able to download now. Phew! it was some work searching through an old database and going after some SQL commands!
Hi Dear,
I have no words to thank you.Really i m feeling very good as i got that treaure.Thx a lot Once again.Thx for the pain you have taken to search it.
Roksea san,
Ogengi das ka..watashi wa nebu das…sorry thats all the little japanese i know..im fro san jose in california.your site is really wonderful..try using canon eos20d instead of the current one.keep up the good work
arigatho
Nebu
Great Work Roxy…
Photos are really good
hey nebu, genki desu. nice to see you here. yes, am thinking of getting a new one by the time i leave japan.. thanks for the suggestion. will check the eos20d also. think itz expensive.
sibish,
nice work
congras
Ahem! when I saw this site first, I was honestly darn impressed! Well, as much as wished, I could go through it like I wanted, I was not able to. But before being a part of it and still, I would say that this is absolutely wonderful work Roxy chetta. The best part of the site is that everything is ORIGINAL…like saying ‘Purely me!’
The ideas are great and the subjects, lively. 
this comment took pretty long to get onto the site! I did not want to hurry up for a cool site like this! That should say it all.
Thank u for reminding me how i plucked my son’s teeth… so tirkly.. by telling stories… tieing thread on it and all
You look like you are up with all things Japanese! So please help me if you can to find out when Yosakoi Saran, Sapporo, is on in 2007.
Is it true that they only announce the dates at the last minute?!
Savannah from Perth
savannah, it is usually in the 1st half of June. i think dates will be announced at least 2 months in advance.
Well I will not write something praising your website bcos its truly one of the best sites I have been to with some amazing photographs. Commendable. Great work Rox, Love to see more pictures and more of poems. What strikingly impresses me is the originality. Keep in touch through mails. Take care.
Fond regards,
Vinaya
hey vinaya, long time! hope you’re keeping happy n healthy. yes, i wish to add more content but am in a tight situation as am in the final stages of my phd. let it finish and i’ll surely have some quality time!!
Dear Roxy,
Can you get the picture of snow scuplture of India (Giant Buddha) – 2007.
If you picture the statue then kindly post it or forward to my email.
It was a nice event to see.
by the way how is your research going on ?
regards
Dash
hi man thanks for the psycology books it was really helpful .please do inform me if you have some more books on the same subject
റോക്സിയേ, കുറേ കാലമായല്ലോ കണ്ടിട്ട്? ഇറ്റലിയിലാണല്ലേ ഇപ്പോള്?
ഹലോ ബെന്നി! അതേ, ഇറ്റലിയിലെ ‘ബൊളോണ്യ’യിലാണ് ഇപ്പോള്
Nice Site Roksea. I is nice to be a natuaralist. I am working in Delhi, it is getting Home sicknes while reading about our own birds
harish, am happy that it took you home
Nice Blog~ I like the photos very much:)
xie xie Donald, for visiting and commenting on the photos
yes it’s me again!
That’s a complete revamp of the site, totally changed from what it was earlier or last wat i saw… but as usual you are simply great with the pics, poems, debates
hmm… the pics do take a while to load