As you know, some time ago we changed our name from ‘LifeSIGNS’ to FirstSigns and changed our web address to match. Obviously this has an impact on how people find us, link to us and how many people visit our site. Google has to re-find our FirstSigns website and re-index us and decide where to […]
Jules and I spent a night in Glasgow at the weekend to meet Trevor, a professional social entrepreneur and expert fund raiser. FirstSigns must grow – we’ve been bigger in the past and we’d get more work done and have a greater impact if we had more people involved and more money to support the […]
Our Message Board, as always, offers a safe, friendly, supportive and inspiring community. We discuss our lives, our emotions and the distress that leads to our self-injury and self-harm, as well as discussing ways in which we can move away from self-injury and seek happier, healthier lives. We also have some fun! The summer months […]
Last Saturday Wedge and I were in London for our second summer meet-up, and as with Birmingham earlier in the year it was fantastic to meet some of you in real life and enjoy a drink and a chat. We understand only too well how daunting travel and meeting new people can be, and we’d […]
I want to thank you for reading our blog and visiting our self-harm awareness website. It means a lot to me, to have engaged and interested visitors. It means a lot to Jules and me when we hear back from members or visitors who tell us that our stories, articles and information has affected them, […]
Just to let you know that we’ve got our new F.A.Q.s online now, to help you reflect on our recent announcement about the new name and web-address for our voluntary organisation. Read the FAQs – and feel free to comment / send us new questions Read the actual Organisation Announcement – learn the startling facts […]
Our organisation is being reborn with a new name! Over the next few days we’re becoming FirstSigns and our website and publications will be rebranded with our new logo. All of our services and information can be accessed from www.FirstSigns.org.uk from this day forth. Wedge has been raising awareness since 2000, and was the Creator […]
Frequently Asked Questions In regard to the recent announcement of our name and address change. Why have you changed your name? See our announcement; we were forced to relinquish the original domain name owned by Wedge, so we decided that a full brand revamp was needed; our new name reflects our new domain of www.FirstSigns.org.uk […]
As you know, this month LifeSIGNS celebrates its 6th Birthday; how much do you know about our little organisation? I remember LifeSIGNS back in the early days when I was a member of the first Message Board. I can’t remember my username back then, but I do remember the name Wedge! Of course I never […]
Anger is a valid emotion, and something we can use to help us direct our energies – but it’s also the cause of a great deal of stress and it can sometimes seem to control us. The Mental Health Foundation have launched a little website to tackle anger management, and you may well enjoy going […]
You know that websites are hosted on a server yeah? And you get that, when a surfer clicks on a web page, the page is sent from the server to the person’s browser, and that the ‘sending’ uses up maybe 80 – 200KB of data bandwidth? (Y’know, web pages are computer files, and files have […]
I just noticed, after years of Google giving LifeSIGNS a PageRank score of 4 out of 10, we’ve just gone up to 5!Check for yourself! Only the largest, most popular websites have a PageRank of 9 or 10, for LifeSIGNS to get 5 must mean that some decent, high-quality websites are linking to us – […]
