Jem's field notes

I’ve given advice on Promoting Your Website as well as my Top Five SEO Tips before, but neither really address how to get the traffic coming in once you’ve followed the tips and suggestions. In this article I hope to give you a head start in getting those all important hits by providing you with… read full entry »

As you may or may not have heard, there was a recent security breach at DreamHost affecting roughly 3,500 accounts (and they were just the ones they admitted to). I don’t know the exact details of the hows and whys, but I do know that the most common ‘side effect’ is that people are finding… read full entry »

I’ve decided to start reviewing again in my free time…

How can we expect a generation of young coders and developers to learn what the meaning of words like “syntax”, “property”, “element” and “attribute” are, if even Google gets it wrong: Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.(source) Ten points for anyone who can spot the mistake there. (Why should… read full entry »

Three times over the last month (that’s four weeks, not since the 1st of June) I’ve received envelopes from my bank absolutely stuffed with various adverts for loans, a variety of different accounts, online banking, etc. This is all printed on very shiny/glossy paper, which I believe (but could be wrong about) is not recyclable… read full entry »

Four new pictures and a new article.

I’ve been flicking through some of my pages this evening correcting typos/etc and have realised that so many of my pages are hideously outdated. Some of my “articles” (I use that term loosely — I really mean uneducated ranting and/or whining) are so bad that they’re verging on becoming scandalous lies. OK, so that’s a… read full entry »

Now this one really tickled my funny bone.. Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator.(source) I feel sorry for the poor sod who was sat at home waiting for their new toy. Oh, and Karl said something about adding a… read full entry »

Have more fun with the flash game: a daily cup of tea.

If you’ve been on the moon for the past month you won’t have heard about the little girl — Madeleine McCann — who was kidnapped from a Portuguese holiday resort. Unfortunately, it’s all I’ve heard about, and while I’ve refrained from passing comment so far I can’t bear to listen to the media making martyrs… read full entry »