Welcome to the new-look Brockley Central

Well done Brockley Jon! The site redesign is thanks to his work and expertise and we hope you agree it's a great leap forward. It's now easier to make suggestions for new stories and there is a permanent home for the photography of the Brockley Flikr group, which is really impressive and captures the spirit of Brockley far more vividly than we could manage.

The redesign is timely, because the site has experienced significant growth in the number of people reading, searching and posting comments recently. When we first began, we were stupidly excited if we got one comment in response to our articles. This week, the article about the £10,000 community fund set a new BC record of 97 comments (and counting).

This week has also created two more records:

The highest-ever number of visitors was on Monday, with 259
The highest-ever number of pages viewed was yesterday, with a total of 1,060

In the coming weeks, you will see further changes to the site. The plan is to create a dedicated section for places to eat and drink and, longer-term, to explore the options regarding a proper forum.

The main sources of visitors to the site (after the all-powerful Google) are Britblog.com followed by Findaproperty.com, Kateshomeblog (though we suspect most of those are Kate herself!), Wikipedia and Facebook.

But our favourite stat is the number of posts the site has generated: 1,227 so-far. As well as a growing list of regular commentators, we've also had contributions from Councillors, community activists, businesspeople, artists and campaigners. Every one has enriched the site and made it what it is today. So thank you everyone and long may the sun shine on Brockley.