A Derby company has stepped in to help turn a couple's dream of creating a website where friends and families can record and share their life stories, into a reality.

Silver Pride Software, which is based at Stadium Business Court on Pride Park, has developed a bespoke software package for SaveEveryStep.com, a new social networking site that allows people to create an interactive timeline of their life.

The brainchild of Helen and Bob Spencer from Nottingham, SaveEveryStep.com is a new concept designed for building life stories online and sharing them with friends, relatives and the wider world on an interactive timeline. The couple had the idea for the website a few years ago, but it was only realised when their graphic designer recommended them to Silver Pride Software.

The contents of the website, including photos, documents and videos, are stored securely online, where they'll never get faded, damaged or lost. Each story is then laid out on a 'LifeLine', the scrollable timeline that is at the heart of the website. Life stories are set out the way they happened - step by step, as a journey through the years. 

Pictures, scanned documents and text can flesh out the story and can be linked to the LifeLines of friends 'family, and even signposted with major world events. Security settings allow fine tuning for granting access to whoever the user wants to see the various elements in their story - from named visitors only, right through to the whole world. 

The launch of the website has been marked with the excavation of a giant footprint in the sand at Scarborough's South Bay Beach.

The release of this new and innovative social networking platform comes just months after Silver Pride launched its SPARK Web Management Suite of Business Solutions. The company has worked tirelessly to develop the website from the original concept to meet the creators' very specific requirements.

Commenting on the new website, Helen Spencer said: "I would like to thank Silver Pride Software for helping us to realise what we had been planning for some years and creating a website that is right on brief. They have been extremely helpful and professional throughout the process of designing and building the website.

"We are absolutely thrilled with the finished website and are so pleased that they have managed to turn quite complex idea into such a user-friendly site," added Helen. 

Graham Till, director of Silver Pride added: "When Helen and Bob came to us with their idea we knew they were on to something exciting and it has been a real pleasure to work with them on this project. We offer a social website building tool within our SPARK Web Management Suite of Business Solutions, but the unique format of SaveEveryStep required us to develop an entirely bespoke solution for them."