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 […]
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, […]
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 – […]
We have the best Message Board! We really do, and here’s why. We’ve got a large, vibrant and friendly community of supportive people who understand self-injury – and we’ve got a great Moderator team to run the Board, keep it safe, and to help Members around the forums; We’ve just upgraded the software of our […]
This blog post is from Danny, and we’re very grateful to him for taking time to do some work for us and for writing it all up. —————————————————— On Thursday night I was invited to attend a conference laid on my Google and MediaTrust, and was able to have a peek at Google UK headquarters […]
This blog post is from Danny, and we’re very grateful to him for taking time to do some work for us and for writing it all up. —————————————————— On Thursday night I was invited to attend a conference laid on my Google and MediaTrust, and was able to have a peek at Google UK headquarters […]
The home page of the LifeSIGNS website is a bit busy I admit; there’s a lot going on and I sometimes wish it was a bit less complex; but then, there’s so much on offer! Anyway, while I haven’t simplified our homepage yet, I have made it load faster for you! It now displays in […]
The home page of the LifeSIGNS website is a bit busy I admit; there’s a lot going on and I sometimes wish it was a bit less complex; but then, there’s so much on offer! Anyway, while I haven’t simplified our homepage yet, I have made it load faster for you! It now displays in […]
