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LATESTNEWS...Latest News...The website is live!We are delighted to announce the safe delivery, ontime, of the DSP’s shiny new website. I hope it will findits way onto everyone’s Favorites list without delay! Itis, of course, also linked to our presence on Twitter andFacebook.What you will see now on www.disabledshooting.org.uk is Phase 1 of the site. A lot more material willbe added to it during Phase 2 over the next month orso. After that, in Phase 3 we will create some moresections to ‘bolt on’ as they are ready – most of theserelate to DSP schemes that are still in development,such as Focus Clubs, Coaching Modules, and theDisabled Shooting Year.The website is, of course, a key part of the DSP’scommunications system, which should help us toachieve our goals for the next 12 months, but wewill continue to publish information in magazines,bulletins, etc. as well.I would like to record my enormous gratitude to CliveGarnham who built the site for us and presided overmy vertiginous learning curve! It is just over a monthsince he received the confirmation to go ahead withthe project, so it has been very hard work all round.As I have by no means finished learning the mysteriousarts of web-mastering, there will undoubtedly behiccups in future – may I apologise in advance, both tosite users and Clive.Next stepsNow that the site is operational, please would you:1. Spread the news!2. Arrange for a link to it to be placed on as manywebsites as possible! The more links we have, thehigher up the search engine rankings the site will be,and naturally we’d like it to be top of the list! I amattaching a .jpg of the DSP logo which can be addedwith the link if you wish.3. Feel free to submit things for the site and encourageothers to do so. News, technical information, diaryitems, etc. will all be welcome. We are particularlykeen to find good video footage and photographsto illustrate as many different aspects of disabledshooting as possible, so perhaps some people wouldlike to turn themselves into film directors and actorsfor a day or two and send us the results. Reminder:Please ensure that everyone featured has given theirpermission for it to be used on the internet, andremember that names (if people are willing to givethem) do make things much more engaging.I am aware that information in some areas is thin onthe ground, but we did not want to delay the launchbecause of what we want to accomplish by March2013. I am particularly aware of the lack of materialon fullbore, clay target and field target disciplinesand that is something that I would like to remedy asquickly as possible, so contributions on those topicswill be particularly gratefully received.ClubsThe information on disabled-friendly clubs is ratherpatchy, because most of it I have hoovered up fromtheir own websites. This is time-consuming, andalso does not guarantee up-to-date accuracy. I willshortly be sending out a concise e-form, which canbe completed and returned by clubs that wish to beproperly represented on the site. I do have details ofmore clubs to go on at the moment, and hope to havethem all up in the next couple of days.I do hope you all enjoy the new site. It feels abouttime for a bit of a celebration! LIZ...54