When first-time users visit our site, and poke around for a few minutes, one of the things that I’m really hoping they’ll say is “I never knew…” followed by some really great gem of information they never expected. I think it’s easy to forget that parenting itself is one of the most intense and information-dense [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Interviewing expert parents and parenting experts
We have a few hard challenges ahead of us – how to get good content, how to get good word-of-mouth to find contributors and readers, how to design and build something that people want to use – to name just a few! On the word-of-mouth thing, a friend suggested we look at Mint.com. Mint created [...]
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Search engine round-up
Good news! Just noticed that we’ve made it to #2 on Google for the search term “parents guild” (with and without quotes). On Yahoo!, “parents guild” won’t lead you to our site, at least not in the first 10 long pages. Yet. But “parentsguild.com” a minute ago gave up our blog at position #3, and [...]
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Why we’re iterating
As we plunge ahead with 18 smallish items remaining before getting a very small circle of folks using the very raw site functionality as-is, it probably bears commenting on why we’re choosing to do development this way – iterating in ever-wider circles of functionality, polish, and users. The reason is that we both believe in [...]
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Signups
We’re ramping up our efforts to get feedback. Last week, we spammed some of our closest friends with kids to ask them if they’ll chat with us for 20-40 min about how they find parenting information today, what’s working and what’s not. We now have over 40 signups. It’s unlikely that we’ll manage to interview [...]
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What we’re reading today
Some web design sites: CSS Zen Garden – the same site content shown with very different, user-contributed look & feel. Mindblowing. (Select a design in the far-right column). Playing with color on Vandelay Design – a rundown of different ways to select a color palette. and, not so much web design related: Julie Fellom’s approach [...]
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Books on Parenting
Part of the reason we’re starting this site is because we believe that the information in the parenting world is still very web 1.0. By that I mean that information comes to us from pedigreed experts – pediatricians, family counselors, psychologists, etc. – as opposed to being crowdsourced from our collective experience as parents. Often [...]
