My wife and I had our first child last year, and very shortly thereafter, emailing new photos and updates of our little angel became a common activity. Being a web designer by trade, I decided to build a little web site for our baby, and invite family an friends to go there to get the latest. As more people visited, I added password protection, automatic email alerts for new photos, a blog, etc.

This required having a web site name and web hosting, hours of coding, and formal and professional training in web design. While that worked fine for me, when a friend asked me to build one for their baby, I knew I was in trouble. I truly wanted others to have a custom, secure web site for their baby, but did not want to be up late at night building them! Further, sites like oFoto and Blogger are great for sharing photos and journal entries, respectively, but my site did all of that in one place, and so much more. Plus, it was specific to babies, new parents, family and friends.

Finally, I decided to make sites just like the one I built for my daughter available to the public at large. Using the latest web technologies, I built it so anyone can build a custom baby website for their child. They get to share a home page, photo albums, journal entries, milestones, guestbook and more, with professionally designed templates, or themes. Plus, only the people they invite get to see the baby's site. That keep hackers and search engines out, which was important to me when I built my daughter's site. Also there are absolutely no advertisements on the baby's site.

I think that the end result is very true in spirit to the initial site I made for our daughter, and based upon early returns, parents really enjoy making their sites and inviting family and friends. I made it so easy, that if you can type an email and attach a photo, you can have a custom web site for your baby up and running in minutes. I think it is a great idea for parents as well as a unique baby shower gift. I hope you check it out, and decide to get one for your baby, or send one as a gift. If nothing else, let me know what you think of the site!

Michael is an expert-level web designer and Internet marketing professional. His baby website creation is called http://www.Babyblogger.com