My email address, which has now been outed (see below), contains the domain of our family website. This site has thousands of pictures of our kids on it, plus captions for each photo that describe intimate details of our kids’ lives, like what their likes and dislikes are, what their nicknames are, that sort of thing. Stuff I don’t want just any joe on the internet knowing.

So now I’m worried about that, too. I didn’t worry about it before now, because our site is blocked from all search engines and is basically un-findable unless you know my email address and know that the site exists. But now I think I need to take some steps to protect my kids.

What I’d really like to do, I think, is password-protect the site. Does anyone out there know how to do this? I assume it’s a Javascript thing? And is it really safe, or is it just a token protection, easily cracked? Is there anything more I should be doing to keep the site (since our Moms, who live far away, love it) but make it more secure?