The following are the 'dry' stuff, or the 'interesting' stuff, depending on how you look at it.

1. This site was started in 2001, after the birth of my firstborn. It has gone through approximately 3 major changes since it started. It's 'birthplace' was Geocities, which gave free hosting service. Later on, it moved to it's current domain 'www.parentingjoy.com', and started using paid hosting service. Along the way, more features were added and changes were done slowly, bit by bit.

To have a feel of how the site has morphed, go through the list of articles under 'What's New'.

2. The first 2 'metamorphosis' was done by me from scratch. Needless to say, they were amateurish attempts.

3. The current, more 'pro' look cannot be done without tremendous help from a web developer friend. The site needed a complete revamp after growing to a scale that was very tedious to manage with Frontpage. The design (if it can even qualify as a 'design') is mine. My web developer friend most certainly does better job at designing, which you can view at http://www.arcadiacreations.com/ .

4. The revamped site was launched on 2 May 2005. It currently uses a Content Management System, which makes things so much easier for me.

5. The articles are written by me unless otherwise stated. Most of the images are mine or just clipart.

6. Before moving to a Content Management System, I used a lot more graphics from the following sources :

• • Graphics at GranGran
  • Ecomother
  • Graphic Garden

Since moving to this new sytem, I have tried to remove their graphics and replace them with my own images. There may be some that I have missed out; some that I cannot remember where I got them from. Hence, I am listing the graphic source here. Please visit these sites to take a look at their work. Ecomother has useful information onchildbirth, breastfeeding and pregnancy too.

7. There used to be a Parenting Joy Shop, which I decided to close and streamline with Plum and Peach (my eStore, which I closed in 2006) after moving over to a Content Management System.

8. The latest change (May 2007) is to change the look of the site to make it more modern, clean and streamlined.  Certain content, which I think is not necessary, has also been removed, e.g. Devotion and Ecards.

9. 2008, I changed webhost and as expected, encountered some teething problems.  I also set up a new store on this site which is an Amazon aStore.