Kidmondo.com - Online Baby Journals

Kidmondo.com is a site where parents can create a comprehensive online baby journal chronicling their child’s life - for posterity’s sake, and to share with family and friends in a safe, private environment. Basic accounts are free, while paid subscriptions go for $5-$10 per month and provide an ad-free journal, greater storage capacity, and allow for more children’s sites per family. Parents can essentially blog on the site, adding stories, noting milestones, and uploading videos and photos of their child. You can further personalize the site with a customized web address, colors, and themes. There is a growth charts feature where you can track your child’s height and weight (and compare it to world averages), and even a dental chart to keep track of when baby’s first tooth arrives, or when the Tooth Fairy makes her first visit. An interactive timeline brings all of these features together to visually represent your child’s growth. Parents can share all of these features with family and friends by sending an invitation (you cannot make a public baby journal). There are also private pages only for the parents, such as a medical and food journal feature where you can track your child’s diet, immunizations, etc.

"The first years of a child’s life are full of excitement. They grow, develop, and discover the world around them - milestones every parent wants to remember. Kidmondo offers a fast and easy way to record their first smile, first step and their everyday adventures. Kidmondo is a gift for yourself, your family and your child!"

You get quite a bit out of the free accounts on Kidmondo.com, which could help the site to gain lots of users (therefore making it appealing to advertisers). The site is easy-to-use and the baby journals created are attractive, look professional, and are very easily personalized.

Are many users going to bother paying to subscribe to Kidmondo.com? The free accounts allow for up to three children and are almost identical to the paid accounts with the exception of storage space and whether you see ads on your page. How many families these days have more than three children? If you decide after a while, or when your child is older, that you no longer want to pay to update the site monthly, is there some sort of archive the parents can take away with them?