Posts tagged website
Just do one thing at a time!
Jan 21st
I’m pleased to say my advice to myself worked and I was able to get stuck into my new webpage on how to start your own Jelly. It’s now published apart from some pictures I’m waiting for A to put on as we have a glitch with the site that means pictures have to go on the server first…or something. Something that I need to stay well away from, anyway!
I’ve written the new page in response to all the questions about Jelly and coworking that have been coming in to me and Lee Cottier, who organises Jelly in Bristol and Bath. It seems that although the idea of coworking has been around in the UK for a few years, it’s now really taking off. Timing is all.
Having completed this, I’m keen now to crack on with my page for freelance writers working from home.
Work from…where?
Jan 5th
We had some disappointing news before Christmas. Our landlords have decided to sell the house we rent and so we will have to find somewhere else by March. It’s a shame because we really like it here, it’s light, roomy and a quick walk into the town centre, which has all the amenities a home worker could want – Post Office, banks, building societies, cafes, library, good mix of shops, markets etc.
It’s a big upheaval to move two businesses as well as all our belongings and inform all the authorities about our change of address, make sure post doesn’t go astray, arrange for new phone lines and internet and so on.
A level of insecurity goes with renting, but we are just not ready yet to commit to buying again. We both want to get our businesses firmly established and know for sure where we want to be. So if you know of a nice house in Frome with 3 bedrooms or enough space for us both to work from home, please get in touch. Oh, and a woodburner would be good…
Newsflash – page about Jelly
Dec 9th
I’ve just added a new page about Jelly that includes a couple of videos from the first Frome Jelly in November. New pages are listed under Tips on the menu bar and also in the right-hand column under my tweets.
Ooh err, I wonder what that does…
Dec 6th
I’m like a child with a new toy – I keep coming back to my new site to admire it and play around some more, and I’ve found some more new features you might like:
If you run the cursor over the top right-hand corner of the site, where it’s completely black/purple, a couple of little squares drop down. One is to change the size of the font so you don’t strain your eyes using a laptop, the other lets you widen the page.
You might have noticed the comments are now at the top of each post. Click on Comments and run your cursor over the person’s name, and if they have a website, a little screenshot of it pops up so you can see if you want to have a closer look. (Sorry, Jenny, I don’t know why yours is blank).
Above the comments is a heading ‘Share this post!’ and if you hover over it, it goes blue and brings up links to Twitter, Facebook and other social media so you can share the info if you think other people would find it useful.
Apologies if you know all this already. I do lots of surfing and a lot of it is new to me, so I just couldn’t resist sharing!
The new look Work from Home Wisdom
Dec 4th
Welcome to the new look Work from Home Wisdom! It’s taken rather longer than I anticipated to get here, but I hope you like the new style and layout as much as I do. Now that my blog is on the home page, there will be something new to read, listen to or watch every time you visit.
Have a click around and explore all the new features. In the right-hand column below my book is a row of little icons that allow you to search blog posts by category, tags, archives, favourites and recent comments.
Under these is a search box where you can type in a word to bring up all the blogs that mention it. Below you can see my latest tweets and click on the links to follow me. Oh, not to forget that there’s another link to my twitter account tucked under the menu bar at the top of the page, next to an RSS button. Clever stuff, eh?
And this is just the start. From next week I will be adding lots of new information to help you work from home as happily and profitably as possible, with articles, audio, video and links tailored to all kinds of home worker.
Whether you are downsizing, making changes after redundancy, writing from home, a mum returning to work, living in the country, interested in making some income in retirement or any other kind of home worker, there will be something of interest for you. Happy browsing and do come back soon!
Website live again
Dec 2nd
We would like to thank our server hosting company Foxhall Solutions and especially Richard Sheppard for getting the website up and working again.
Thanks guys – much appreciated.
Please explore the site to your heart’s content and come back for more content soon!
How come the Homeworking Book page is now Work from Home Book?
Aug 12th
Judy Heminsley's Work from Home book
If you’ve visited the site before, you might have noticed I’ve made some changes recently. Some much-needed changes, as I’ve been neglecting the site over the last few months to concentrate on promoting Work from Home.
I’m now working on increasing visitor numbers by researching keywords and adding audio and video clips. So that’s why some of the pages have changed their names (eg Homeworkers’ Rooms to My Home Office) and the free guide to overcoming isolation has been given a new provisional title of Beating the Homeworker Blues. Should you have generously linked to the site, you’ll need to check in case your links need updating following these changes.
I have to admit to being a bit of a reluctant web builder. It doesn’t come naturally, but when I put my mind to it, I’m always amazed by how addictive it becomes. I find it very satisfying to see the results up there on the screen, and it’s so fulfilling when ideas start to flow. As with many activities, the crucial part is getting started. Once you’ve done that, the momentum builds up on its own.
I hope you like the changes. There are more on the way, and some new content to add. But for now it’s back to the Google Keyword Research Tool – I sound like a real IT expert, don’t I?
Eating my hat
May 5th
I’ve already written about the learning curve I’m on, developing this site, and how we’ve discovered it’s not so simple after all to take photos that look good within the overall design. I also wrote in the introduction to the book how much I dislike those stock homeworking photos you see in the media of models sitting on white sofas tapping on laptops.
So I didn’t expect to find myself, not only not getting rid of the stock photos on the Home page and 6 Secrets page, as I thought I would when I took over the site, but actually buying more for the new pages I’m planning! Like the one on this post.
An important part of the brief I gave to the web designer was that the site should be clean and clear, with easy navigation. Do I think he’s achieved that? I certainly do, and the feedback I’m getting shows other people think so too.
What I hadn’t appreciated was how much the stock photos are part of the overall design, until we tried replacing them with photos of me doing homeworker-type things. My intention was to make the site more personal, but in fact it just looked messy and amateurish.
So I have decided to go with the photos Tony chose, and use more of the same people on other pages. They are clean and clear, just like the rest of the site, and continue the colour theme. I also hope they aren’t too ‘model-ish’. Some photographers seem to think that if you plonk an impossibly good-looking model at a table with a laptop and a mug, the photo shouts ‘working from home’. Nope, it shouts ‘irritating model with stupid grin pretending to work from home, how dim do you think I am?’
There will be photos of me on various pages, and of course photos of your workspaces, but that is a different kind of page entirely. I hope my posts and your comments will make the site the friendly, down-to-earth and practical resource for homeworkers that I intended the book to be.
And Another
Mar 18th
I’ve added another page, this time one that’s not immediately obvious. Move your cursor over Work From Home Book and you’ll see Other Home Working Books appear. Reading has always been one of my favourite pastimes and this is a selection of my current favourites, some to help with work and others purely for relaxation. Do any of your own favourites appear, or are there any must-reads I really should know about?
New Page!
Mar 16th
I’m delighted to have added the new page on homeworkers’ rooms, as promised a few days ago – just click on Homeworkers’ Rooms on the green menu bar above. Many thanks to the people who have started the page by sending me their photos and descriptions.
I hope you find them interesting and will send in your own so that the collection comes to reflect the amazing breadth and brilliance of homeworkers! I’m sure I can’t be the only one who is fascinated to know how and where other people work. I aim to add one every few days so come back soon to find out who has a sea view when they’re working…
