Carl A. Bartol, a licensed private investigator and founder of the Prevent Delinquency Project recently teamed up with two of the Internet’s top blog designers in the quest to find missing children and adults.

Each year more than 800,000 children and countless adults are reported missing in the United States. Technorati, an Internet-based search engine estimates that approximately 125,000 new bloggers come online each day. This amounts to millions of blogs and posts every year. In thinking outside the box of ways to aid in the search for missing children and adults, Bartol and his Prevent Delinquency Project (http://www.preventdelinquency.org) teamed up with two of the web’s top designers, Ophelia Nicholson (http://www.ophelianicholson.com), and Linda Jackson (http://www.wpskins.org), to develop WordPress blog themes specifically designed to help locate lost loved ones. To their credit, they have completed two such themes to date and more are on the horizon.

Nicholson designed a unique theme which incorporates a banner from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that updates automatically with pictures and details of missing kids. In that way, bloggers can show their support and help bring children home safely. Jackson designed a distinctive theme which gives families and friends the opportunity to set up a blog devoted solely to the search for their missing loved one. Both of these themes are available free and ready to be downloaded. The more bloggers that take advantage of these themes, the greater the chance that those who have gone missing will be found. “Blogs are simply the fastest and easiest way to broadcast information globally,” Bartol said. “Even children who have been taken into foreign countries can be recognized by people who have visited a blog with an alert displayed,” Nicholson proudly acclaims. “Together, we can make a difference in supporting this wonderful pursuit,” Jackson adds.