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Inside The Website Engine Room

Calum MacRae
www.findmadeleine.com
Updated:12:38, Wednesday May 23, 2007

Ullapool in northern Scotland may be a long way from the Algarve but in this village we feel very close to Madeleine McCann and the plight of her family.

Madeleine's Aunt, Phil McCann, is a teacher in Ullapool and she contacted us and asked if we could do a website for Madeleine.

We were more than happy to oblige. We had a basic site up and running on the internet within a day.

Half a dozen of us who know Phil have been running the website for the past two weeks, night & day.

It soon became obvious to us that we needed to upgrade the site and get some people in to help with the messages that were pouring in through it.

We have received a huge response from the public with over 150 million visitors on the site from all over the world. We have just addeda new bannerfor readers to download, to maintain momentum in the Find Madeleine campaign.

Calum in Ullapool

We have also received over 70,000 messages of support for the family and to date we have passed on over 200 messages to the police and crimestoppers with the hope that one of these will lead the authorities to find Madeleine.

We have also added the online payment facility to the site to allow members of the public to make donations to 'Madeleine's Fund : Leaving No Stone Unturned' Fund.

This has been very popular and we have seen money come in from every corner of the world.

The site is also allowing Jerry and Kate keep the public up to date with what they are doing from day to day, as they feel it is important for them to keep in touch with the public and to thank them for all their support.

:: Download the FindMadeleine.Com banner, for you to use on your email and artwork, here.