We've decided to run a competition in the run up to reaching 2,000,000 websites with a prize of £1000 cash (that's roughly $1,500 or €1,250 in your money!). We thought this might be helpful during these crunchy times to pay for or pay off your Xmas shopping (depending on when we pass the 2,000,000 site mark).

The rules are simple: anyone who builds a website on Moonfruit.com between 1 Dec 2008 and the day that we hit the magic 2,000,000 number will be entered into the prize draw. We've had roughly 1.97m websites built as of today, so that's roughly 30,000 people who will be in the draw. We will then select the winner randomly from this group of people once we hit 2,000,000 websites.

But hold your horses, not just any website will do, it has to be a 'real' website. So don't just start creating new trial sites and hope to hit that magic number. If we find a 'welcome to your website' site, you won't win it. By 'real' we mean a website that's actually being created for a specific purpose or is being used for something, and not just created in the hope of winning this competition. It must have real content and a real purpose. And you can't just duplicate an existing site many times over. We'll check!

So there you go. Now's the time to tell your friends to start building websites. Or build that site you've always wanted to build. Or both.

Good luck to you all and be careful you don't spend the money before you get it ;-)