What a brilliant sunny 2 weeks we have had, And by the looks of the visitor stats its got you all looking for campsites! After a slow period in the winter Feb seemed like a good time to add our customary pile of awesome new features! I’m going to use this space to mention a few of them.

Firstly, this blog! Its going to be used for reviews on products, interesting articles and site anouncments. I used to use the forum for this but its been a little quiet over their, these new posts get announced all over the site. While im on the subject of the forum, you should all get posting - This site gets 1000-5000 visitors per day but no action on the forum. If we had a few people posting I think it could really take off. Its stuck in a little bit of a rut at the moment sadly - I know you all love to chat, so come on tell us something!

Availability checking is now available to any participating campsites, if the opt-in you can now see when they are full to avoid unecessary phone calls. Its a free service, so I really hope campsites take us up and begin using it.

We added the ability for campsite owners to update listings via fax and email, we hope this will mean more updates, and more accurate data across the site - we send out loads of emails a year bugging campsite owners to check everythign is correct and to update the listings - Im passionate about getting this site as up-to-date as possible because accurate dat helps everyone out. On the subject of accurate data, we cleaned out some listings added more photos and identified 40 incorrect email addresses this month.

Gallery - We love this little feature, a super little gallery that moves around the pictures. We really think this is going to show you exactly what the site is like. It supports upto 50 photos, and because we make it for each individual campsite it requires an “opt-in” so not all listings will have this.

Im also working on some really nice little add-ons, like nearest train stations, taxi services and super markets - I also have plans for members to choose a home location and each listing giving a “distance to travel” and “find my nearest sites” options.

25th Feb
Refined all of the detail pages, they are now 60% quicker to load. With these changes in place we can now ad further features to these pages without the worry of painfully slow page loads. We will add “nearest” Golf courses shortly - provided by another of our sites http:/www.geogolfcourse.co.uk