100 Most Beautiful Babies was a personal project which my wife and I started back in 2006. The goal of the site was to create one of the most beautiful pages on the internet, full of photos of babies, and where new parents could show off their adorable babies to the world by being given an announcement page of sorts. After the first 100 babies were added, and the homepage was full, we closed the site to new submissions and didn’t really think about other possibilities.
Years later, I noticed that the site still got a considerable amount of traffic. So I reopened the site to new baby submissions again, launching a new website design along with plenty of new features.
The design for the site was based on a free template called “CSS Gallery Theme,” which I used as a starting point and tweaked until I was satisfied.