Contribute to Cloth Nappy Tree

Cloth Nappy Tree is constantly growing and expanding (we love adding new stuff!) and as it has become more popular, we now need your help to make Cloth Nappy Tree better. The team is still very small (and very busy) so we would love more people to join the fun and help realise our objectives for Cloth Nappy Tree.

The good news is there are many ways that you can help with Cloth Nappy Tree and you don’t necessarily have to be a cloth nappy expert! If you have some time and good will, you can really help!

› Suggestions

• Use Cloth Nappy Tree

  It may seem obvious, but Cloth Nappy Tree members are really great contributors: they send us emails full of positivity and enthusiasm about the site, which makes us want to work harder for you! Send us great suggestions, bug reports, and fan Cloth Nappy Tree on Facebook to spread the word. Take a look around Cloth Nappy Tree and tell us what you really think!

• Help the community

  Support other members on the forums and meet other Cloth Nappy Tree members.

• Write reviews and articles

  This is the core of Cloth Nappy Tree. Writing good informative articles and reviews about cloth nappies and parenting in general really helps people make informed decisions about their parenting and environmentally friendly product choices.

• Learn more about Cloth Nappy Tree and get involved

  You can subscribe to some of the forum RSS feeds to receive the latest Cloth Nappy Tree posts, classifieds, reviews or news straight to you favourite RSS reader. Subscribe to the Your ideas for Cloth Nappy Tree RSS feed to stay tuned about the latest ideas and new features. If you have an idea to make Cloth Nappy Tree better or find something broken, please do tell us. You can almost guarantee that if it makes your experience better, then it will do so for others

• Spread the word about Cloth Nappy Tree

  Write an original blog post about Cloth Nappy Tree on your blog or website. Or if you see an article about Cloth Nappy Tree on someone else's page, let us know! We love to hear about what other people think.

• Start a blog at Cloth Nappy Tree

  If you have an interesting topic to discuss or share, start a blog at Cloth Nappy Tree. We would love to hear from you and see you share your projects with others.

• Marketing

  Marketing is incredibly useful to Cloth Nappy Tree and for getting the use of cloth nappies more widely accepted: improving Cloth Nappy Tree's image on various websites (facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.), contacting journalists to let them know about the project, spread the word on blogs, websites, magazines, etc. Currently there are no marketing people in the team, you could make a big impact!

• Submit suggestions and improvements

  You can tell us what we can do to improve Cloth Nappy Tree in the Your Ideas for Cloth Nappy Tree forum.

› A bit about funding

• Donate

  Cloth Nappy Tree is a non profit making project designed to help people make informed decisions about their impact on the environment. Everyone involved in the project does so out of love. Of course running the site costs real money, so donations are very much appreciated. All funds from donations and advertising are used for the development of Cloth Nappy Tree: marketing, design, site improvements, hosting, bandwidth etc. You can donate money to our paypal account here:

• Google Adverts

  Google advertisement visits are one of the main sources of income for this site and as such it is necessary for us to show them, otherwise we would be severely in the red at the end of the month. If you don't like them we suggest you might like to look at some of the other ways to support Cloth Nappy Tree so that we can begin to move away from this model. We have little control over what is served up in different countries and would ask you to inform us, including the url, of any adverts that may be considered illegal, offensive, discriminatory or grossly inappropriate so we can take action with Google to block that particular advertiser from appearing on our site in your country.

› Suggestions for WAHM's and Shops

• Advertising

  Advertising revenue is extremely important to Cloth Nappy Tree. Many thanks go to our advertisers who help pay for our hosting and development costs. You can find out more about helping us and yourself with advertising here.

• WAHM's Corner

  Tell people about your new environmentally friendly products and why you think they're great in the WAHM's Corner. We're committed to helping new WAHM's with good value environmentally friendly products get those products known.

• Forum Sponsorship

  Shops with relevant products can now sponsor individual forums. Again, revenue from Forum Sponsorship goes towards making Cloth Nappy Tree better. Contact us for more information.

• Start a blog on Cloth Nappy Tree

  Shops with relevant environmentally friendly products can create a blog on Cloth Nappy Tree to tell people all about their lovely nappies. Visit the Cloth Nappy Tree Blogs page.

› Suggestions for technical people

• Usability

  Usability is very important for us. If you can write html, css or even php or javascript: discuss, suggest or submit a new user interface or usability improvement.

• Look and feel

  If you’re a rock star designer, then you must be shocked by some bits of the Cloth Nappy Tree user interface. Why not help us by making Cloth Nappy Tree look better?

• Security review

  If you like to delve into code to look for security issues, please do so, and submit any problem you can find or suggestion on how to make Cloth Nappy Tree more secure.

› Do you need guidance?

Our time is limited as we are a very small team and we think of Cloth Nappy Tree as a community. If you’re willing to put some time and energy into Cloth Nappy Tree, we would love to help you get started. If you have any questions or if you need some guidance, feel free to contact the team.