Jem's field notes

I don’t think ‘net based companies realise how frickin’ irritating it is when they deliver really crap customer service (or in some cases, none at all!) When I’m dealing with a company for my own personal use it’s not such a big deal, but if I need support for a work client and I can’t… read full entry »

Karl and I have spent all weekend cleaning and moving furniture. Perhaps I’m just being stereotypical/sexist but it’s obvious the flat hadn’t seen a woman’s touch in at least a year. We blasted the shower ‘cubicle’ thing with the steam cleaner and old hair shot out the bottom. Now that was just ‘eww’, and I’ve… read full entry »

Some of you might remember that I mentioned Karl and I have some news? Well: I’m pregnant! Oh wait, wrong news.. (ahh, that never gets old.) Karl and I have a flat! (That’s apartment to you Americans.) We went to look at a little place in the same building that I work in two weeks… read full entry »

Originally published as a SEO blog entry Tip #5: Quality Content I mentioned in my semi-satirical ‘Promoting Your Website‘ article that you should: “Have an Opinion” and “Get a Blog, Blog About Everything” and I believe this is part of the quality content thing. Quality content means content that people want to read, and want… read full entry »

Before I get on to the actual point of the post: my new domains have propagated for the majority and you can now get to my site through jemjabella.co.uk, .com, .net and .org. HOORAH. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is the process of optimising your website to increase your rank in search engines (not just… read full entry »

Found an interesting, mature blog today through Daz: nektros – Cynicism in a Hot Dish. The author, Yvonne, has a witty outlook on things happening around the blogosphere and expresses her thoughts well. I am pleased by this because it’s been ages since I found a good blog that I’ve not read before. It’s rare… read full entry »

First things first, we might as well get out of the what PHP is not: PHP is not a replacement for HTML. PHP is not a synonym for MySQL. Although they work well together, they’re not the same thing. PHP is not all about layout-based includes. PHP is not magically going to make your website… read full entry »

You may notice some little changes here and there around the website. I’ve been fiddling (out of boredom) again: the most prominent change being the navigation. I have moved sub-pages (if applicable) up to within the actual main navigation list based on the page you’re on so that they’re harder to miss. You may have… read full entry »

Karl casually mentioned to me earlier that he has received another e-mail from a SAD sufferer, to which I replied that his hits were up because of people looking for SAD information. (Please, no comments on how completely nerdy it is that I know the ‘state’ of our websites at any point in time..) Anyway,… read full entry »

I’ve modified the BellaBuffs (and as such, BellaBook) function which removes whitespace from the end of lines so that it now removes empty lines too (which it didn’t properly before). This solves the problem caused by members that have been approved all at once causing blank lines and thus undefined offset errors. Until I can… read full entry »