familytastic!

If you've been a long-time Family Of Five subscriber, you'll have noticed some changes in the RSS feed and on the site recently.

First - we've changed the name (and the domain) to familytastic.com. The reason for this is that we wanted to reach out to other parents and bloggers. We wanted to create a community of mums and dads and a place where we could share experiences and advice and the ups and downs of parenthood and family life.

Second - we've moved the site from WordPress to Drupal. Drupal is helping us to create a mini social network where you can write blogs, share pictures and create groups for people who share your interests.

We're going to start out with a couple of basic groups for mummy-bloggers and daddy-bloggers. Then we'll add groups that you want us to create - Breastfeeding, Parenting Teenagers, Healthy Cooking for your Family - all examples of groups that we can make available.

Beta launch, anyone?

Now, we're not going to launch straight away, but we are looking for beta testers to help us shape the site - from logo to layout and the features we make available.

If you want to get involved, please drop me (Gerard) a line and we'll set you up with a basic account.