We've just celebrated our first little birthday – one month live! A Simple Measure launched on the 21st April 2009 and we’ve now received over 14,000 unique visitors coming from over 130 countries so I guess we're not doing too badly so far.

We've launched the start of our community

We don't pretend we're good at everything which is why we're recruiting you folk to offer similar folk DIY advice, hints, and tips in the form of our new community 'ask around'. You can post questions, offer answers to questions, and even vote for the answer you like the most. We've also added a profile section so that you can also tell everyone a little bit about yourself and your DIY expertise. Now all we need is for you guys to start posting questions on there to help solve some DIY problems. Let us know what you think.

A little present for you all

To say a massive thank you to everyone who has registered on our site and subscribed to our emails, we've teamed up with stylish, eco-friendly retailer, Biome Lifestyle to offer all subscribers 15% off their entire range online. Simply enter the code ASM2009 at checkout to receive your discount. Valid until the end of June.