Childfriendly.net reaches 1,000 places reviewed.

Childfriendly.net receives a mention of Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show.

Childfriendly.net was named the website of the day by Miles Mendoza on Steve Wright's BBC Radio 2 Programe. Miles spent 5 minutes discussing and explaining the sites content and got a huge thumbs up from all of the team.

We are recommended in the February edition of Practical parenting's booklet in conjunction with Simple "Simple little things in Life" in fun and easy days out section and also there is a quote by us with regards to researching holidays in the holidays section

We get the thumbs up in August's edition of Prima Baby and Pregnancy Magazine on page 18.

There's a nice piece in February's edition of Mother and Baby Magazine on page 19 Baby Talk.

There's a nice mention in this month's BBC Parenting Magazine, we're listed in the "101 Essential Websites" in the "Out & about" category.

We've finally got the new site design up, hope you like it.

Another good newspaper article appeared today, this time in the Western Mail, the national newspaper for Wales.

The publicity machine rolls ever on with a nice big article in the local paper, the Cambrian News. Shame about the rather scary photo though ;-)

Yet another magazine appearance, this time a small article in the May issue of Practical Parenting. Our baby mascot makes an appearance too!

Some more publicity appeared this week, letters we sent to BBC Parenting Magazine and Baby and You magazine have both appeared and seem to be having the desired result.

The word is slowly spreading about the site. Hopefully, articles like this one at iVillage will help promote the site.

Following a suggestion in the forums, we've now added a menu option to subscribe to an email newsletter. Rather than being a regular monthly thing it's more likely to be a "if and when" bulletin which we'll send out when we've got anything important to announce. It won't be more frequently than monthly though (so don't worry about us clogging up your inbox!)

One thing that has been floating around as an idea ever since Change My Nappy was launched was the idea of increasing the site's scope. Nappies are all well and good (apart from when they're full) but we were concious that we were excluding parents of children who were no longer in nappies.

We thought it'd be a great idea if the site was expanded so that it covered all aspects of child friendliness. Commenting on more than just nappy changing facilities would increase the usefulness of the site immensely.

Although there were no other sites like Change My Nappy around, we felt sure that there would be a general "child-friendly locations" site, but after some serious Googling we couldn't find anything.

A bit of fiddling later and it's done. The site is still called Change My Nappy but now covers all aspects of whether somewhere is child friendly, from feeding facilities to play facilities and general attitude towards children.

So, get reviewing!

Well, the publicity went out and, to date, not a great deal has come of it. So far, we've only heard of one publication that has featured the site, Woman magazine. Here's hoping that as time goes on more appears.

The mention in Woman has brought in a number of visitors who have contributed some more comments. Thanks to everyone who is continuing to contribute to the site.

You may notice we now have advertising at the top of the page. This is because the site hosting costs money and, although we created the site because we felt it'd be a useful resource, we don't particularly want to be out of pocket because of it. Any support you can give us by visiting our sponsors would be gratefully received.

The number of reviews is growing nicely, many thanks to those who've already contributed!

Publicity went out last week in the form of press releases to the many of the baby and parenting magazines, finger's crossed it'll have the desired result.

Feedback from people we've spoken to has been very positive with lots of enthusiasm for the potential of the site. There's also been some interesting suggestions on how the site could be expanded, watch this space....

The first bit of publicity went out today in the form of a posting to the uk.people.parents newsgroup. Hopefully this will start bringing in our first few visitors.

We thought we'd celebrate the new month with a new mascot. He's the rather uncomfortable looking chap sitting at the top of the page.
He's currently nameless (ah, bless) but we're hoping to shortly have a competition to name him, so get thinking!

Onto the news. Well, the site is up and running (most of it). There's been no publicity yet, however the URL has been submitted to all the major search engines, so any visitors are either being directed here by us or our search engine listings are starting to appear.

There's a new logo imminent! Much as we like the crying baby, he's lacking a certain something, so he'll shortly be being replaced by someone altogether more stylish.

We'll shortly be sending out press releases to all the major parenting magazines, hopefully this will get the site some coverage and bring in visitors.