My name is Jemma (Jem) Turner and I am a self-taught web developer for a local marketing company in the UK; when I’m not at work coding I’m at home poking my free scripts instead. I’ve been developing websites since early 2000 and have a love for PHP, X/HTML and CSS. I also like to play with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and see this website as an example of my success.

I have a strong sense of humour, a passion for all things geeky and a serious geek t-shirt fetish. I like a good cup of coffee (milk, two sugars) and frequently indulge in the wrong sort of food. Creme eggs were made to taunt the devil, I tell you.

Aside from computing and maintaining my free scripts (the Bella~ series), my hobbies stretch to photography (purely amateur), reading (PHP manuals/Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels) and spending time with my beautiful niece and nephew. I am also a huge Nintendo gaming fan and the current owner of a GameCube, Nintendo DS and Wii. The latter justified by the notion that it will help me get fit.

I moved into a house with a garden in March 08, and have since discovered that I like growing vegetables and other associated greenery. I’m not sure what geekery and gardening have in common that makes the two appealing, but there we go. If you’re green-fingered yourself, you may enjoy some of my gardening weblog posts.

I share ‘my’ rented house with my long-suffering partner, Karl and my adorable cats Hex, and Fudge. Karl has his own website but doesn’t quite share my love of mark-up. We got together after I left school and have been together since. Talk of marriage results in the decision that — if we ever do bother — we’ll both do it in our jeans and a t-shirt. We’re cool like that.

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This is my website. It’s not sponsored in any way. I write about personal crap that nobody ever understands; rant wildly about the Internet/the vast amount of idiots that use it; and distribute knowledge about my favourite subjects. I am hosted at Site5.com — a great host with rapid support and a bloody reliable server.

Although for nearly 3 years I rode the Internet waves with my custom-made CMS/weblog system, the site has now been converted back to WordPress. I currently use the Akismet, Exec-PHP, Google XML Sitemaps and WP-Mint plugins (amongst others) to keep the whole thing ticking over nicely.