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We are Webbed Feet, we’ve been established for over 20 years. I just found this article amusing, thought I’d share, and give a little history at the same time. So, what’s the point of this post? Well, in all honesty, there isn’t one, and I’m not going to make a tenuous link. We’re lucky in that we faired well during the pandemic as we’re becoming increasingly an essential. The digital sector is expanding massively, and these days we all specialise in our small corner of the digital space. Some of the team would still be at school! These days it doesn’t really work that way, and we have a team, currently 8 of us, each with a specialist skill set who work together making and promoting websites better than ever, certainly far more complex than we ever could have imagined 20 years ago. In the old days, I used to meet the clients, design the websites, discusser the user journeys (albeit briefly), build/code the website, get people to find them using search engines, and promote them (often offline) all by myself. In some places, Internet access is considered a human right, and that in the UK the average person spends over 3.5 hours a day online . Who’d have thought that not only would the Internet be here, but how big it would be. Oh, how the Internet has changed, and more importantly how we've changed with it. This webbing between long and ring fingers is probably less common than a similar condition between the second and third toes. We got out first client Harry in July 2001, a lovely Scottish guy who put his trust in us and stayed with us until retirement in 2019, over 18 years! We also made our first online shop, for a local florist in 2001. They were energised by what you can do on the Net but they have been through all that, and then realised there is more to life in the real world and gone back to it. That’s where the name 'Webbed Feet' came from - getting your feet for the web. I remember visiting businesses and having to explain what websites were and why companies would need one, rather than why we were the best fit for the job. Everyone used the Netscape browser and Altavista (rather than Google) was the main search engine. When we started, Facebook and YouTube weren’t yet launched. Abnormalities of the hands and feet may include fingers and toes that are webbed and/or fused (syndactyly) and a single nail that is common to the second to. Many teenagers are using the Internet less now than previously, they conclude, and the future of online shopping is limited. THE Internet may only be a passing fad for many users according to a report.

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We used to connect, upload or download our files, then have to disconnect so that the phone would work again. We were working from a bedroom or conservatory, on a dial-up connection that you could hear it whistling when connecting via our 56Kbps modem. We were established as a partnership back in summer 2001, now over 20 years ago and we took some risks setting up in this sector in its infancy. com and my grandad, a retired farmer, told me that I was doing it wrong as 'dot coms' are 'destined for failure'. That agency is now Webbed Feet, and is very much still alive. The knowledgeable and highly trained staff at the Hand Surgery Program will work with each patient to determine the best treatment option.Okay, this article was published in the Daily Mail back in December 2000, but interestingly it was around this time that I was finishing my final year in University and decided to set up a web agency, rather than getting a job. Physical therapy may be needed if several surgeries are performed Surgery performed in childhood may need to be adjusted for growth with touch-up surgery when the child is older. At a follow up visit the physician will remove the cast and fit a splint onto the affected fingers. Surgery is generally performed early on, particularly for complex syndactyly, in order to minimize potential issues that may form among the conjoined digits as the child grows.Īfter surgery, protecting the hand in a cast is necessary to ensure the area heals properly.

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If this occurs, the skin is most often taken from the stomach or hip areas. This method reduces the need for skin grafts, although those may be needed if there is not enough skin to cover the fingers. The general method for addressing conjoined digits is creating zigzag cuts along the webbing and then attaching the flaps of skin created by the cuts to the fingers.

The surgical method used to address the condition will depend on the type of syndactyly the patient has and the fingers involved.

Dr Matthew Skinner had a think about what could happen to human evolution based. When the condition is affecting the fingers, surgery is used to separate the fingers and restore function. One plucky scientist has suggested that humans could end up evolving webbed feet as a side-effect of climate change. If syndactyly is affecting the toes, no treatment may be needed because the condition rarely causes functional challenges.