On this date five years ago a wonderful miracle was born… ok, I’m somewhat over-exaggerating, but today is the fifth birthday of jemjabella.co.uk! With various sub-domains that have come and gone, three hackings, at least four different incarnations of what I wanted my domain to be and more past layouts than you can shake a… read full entry »

A thread came up at Mint Pages in which the age-old question “how do I increase my hits?” was asked. Although I’ve covered the subject briefly before, it did raise an interesting point about alt attributes. (That’s right, alt attributes, not alt tags.) I’m sure you’ve heard me nagging about alt attributes before in the… read full entry »

Let’s have a quick re-cap of what we covered in Beginner’s Guide to PHP – Part One: there are different data types (string, integer, floating point number and boolean) and variables are created by simply assigning data to them. Simple enough? Well, now we’re going to take a look at mathematical operators and what we… read full entry »

When I read up on C.R.A.P. last month — I admit — I was hoping it would turn me into an amazing designer overnight. Of course, we all know that this is an impossible feat and you can’t reverse several years of bad design habits with one book. However, it did at least make me… read full entry »

Cover your eyes if you’re easily corrupted — jemjabella is naked! Just like last naked day, I’m taking part to demonstrate that when stripped of styling Jemjabella.co.uk is still useable, browseable and most importantly: readable. Such is the benefit of separating visual style from mark-up. To get involved, visit the CSS Naked Day site over… read full entry »

Follow these tips and be l33ter than me in no time at all… 1. Rename your files to “.php” and chuck in a couple of PHP includes (sorry, I meant “headers and footers”) for good measure — because that’s all PHP is, right? 2. Take an already crap script, make a couple of even crappier… read full entry »

It’s never occurred to me that people actually use Funky Chickens as a valid resource for learning HTML. In fact, even after it was nominated for one of my infamous reviews (on several occasions) it wasn’t until I saw it linked alongside tutorialtastic as a valid place to learn code that I thought .. “eh?… read full entry »

It’s been a few months, but there’s finally a new unrequested review up. The victim this time is one ‘nothingbutsong.org/tutorials’; in accordance with my ranty post on bad tutorial sites I have made the review pure critique of the code/tutorials. Most of the rubbish (and yet amusing) ‘banter’ has been taken out in favour of… read full entry »

Vixx let the cat out of the bag (not that it was a secret, mind) at CodeGrrl recently about me taking on phpFanBase. I’ve made no secret of my dislike for it in its current form so I figured it was probably about time I stopped whinging and actually did something about it… and then… read full entry »

Six — via the fanlistings message board — was talking about her script wishlist for 2007 and mentioned a guestbook with RSS 2.0 capabilities. Not one to miss the opportunity to gain a potential user, I offered to knock something up for BellaBook. The results, which work with version 3.3 are as follows (save it… read full entry »