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Happy PoTS Awareness Day! We put www.potsuk.org live today for PoTS UK, and in true PoTS style, it took a while to get up, felt dizzy for a bit and is now up and running (as long as we feed it salty bytes to keep it going).

Home - PoTS UK PoTS is due to an abnormal response by the autonomic (automatic) nervous system and is characterised by orthostatic intolerance (the development of symptoms when upright that are mostly relieved by lying down).

New project coordinator, new school year... We thought it was time for a rebrand.

We had a great time at the last night. We're so proud to be working with Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS and Charity and hope to continue the relationship for many years to come!

We’ve made it through our first day of Bears of Sheffield going live, and the site now has nearly 3000 users! It's been hard work getting it all up to scratch and it's frustrating when things go wrong that you've tested so many times and everyone is expecting perfection... (I reasoned that if Richard Branson's voice couldn't be heard from space because of technical difficulties yesterday... and Amazon can be brought down by someone changing a browser setting, then we're probably doing ok)

But we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved and hope that our involvement in this project will help the Children’s Hospital Charity to exceed the amount they raised during Herd of Sheffield five years ago. They've already told us that they've had a fraction of the issues they had with the app last time, so we're happy.

www.bearsofsheffield.com

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We’ve been very privileged to work with Pan Arts, who have created this and many more projects of its kind. The arts are not just a highbrow source of entertainment - in many cases they can be lifesaving

‘We're bonded like sisters': the choir giving trafficked women a voice A choral singing project is harnessing the power of music to help heal the mental and emotional scars of women trafficked into Britain

Anyone who's wondered about those three little lines at the top of a lot of websites, and how they came to be, today's your lucky day.

An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there) | Inside Design Blog It was 1981. Computing was in its infancy. And the designers at Xerox needed a solution…

4 useful tips to consider before your start your new website

Where to start is often the hardest part of the process, so here are some tips to help you get going with your new site.

1. Where do you want to be in the future? Without a goal for 1, 3 or even 5 years, you'll just make this process impossible! Choose at least one goal if you don't already have one.

2. What do you need the site to do for you? What do you need exactly? Make sure you have a plan for this. It could be new leads, repeat orders, number of visits. It's best to get detailed with this, because the more specific you get about the results you want, the better your results are likely to be.

3. How are you going to get people to visit? You must have a plan for this, because expecting people to magically visit will not work! There are many ways to approach this including social media, advertising, word of mouth and much more. There are also many people who can help you with this part of the process.

4. When they arrive, where will they go? Your site is your front-desk employee who is (hopefully) welcoming your customers 24/7! Create some journeys for your visitors to go on once they arrive at your site, through pages or through content, always arriving at a destination where you can both meet, and you can provide them with the service they're after.

Now you have a fantastic plan, I would recommend getting inspired by other sites or brands and bring these with you when you make a start!

Ant is the owner of Creative Stream and has been creating bespoke and inspirational websites since 1997

We were absolutely thrilled to be part of this fantastic event for Sheffield Children's Hospital and Charity by sponsoring our own snowflake this year!

We also built this site so you can get your own snowflake certificate right here: https://snowflake.tchc.org.uk

‪Nearly a year of our animation work contributed to this brand new app

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