Hi early adopters! After today’s flurry of new signups, posts, and questions, we’re super-excited about the site, and we’re also very sensitive about the amount of e-mail that we’re sending you. To that end, we’ve reduced the frequency of the e-mails, and you should be getting far fewer than the over-zealous amount that we had [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
…and one more thing!
We just added last modified dates & times to all posts and comments!
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Follow @parentsguild on twitter!
Just a quick message that we’re doing a small amount of posting to our twitter account, @parentsguild. So, feel free to subscribe to us there, or on FriendFeed!
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We’re implementing features for YOU!
Hi guys, your friendly Parents Guild developer team here, Just wanted to let you know that we’ve been listening to your feedback, and we’ve just pushed a bunch of new features to the site. Here’s the low-down: Question & Answer editing. We added this feature a few days ago, but I just wanted to let [...]
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Subscribe to the blog!
Dude, check it out! Steve just added a “subscribe to this blog via email” feature. It’s available from the sidebar on the blog itself. (You can also subscribe via RSS.)
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The push & pull of (nearly) continuous deployment.
As you may (or likely, may not) have noticed, there are changes on Parents Guild almost every day at this point. Usually, we’re just making small tweaks, adding small features here and there, and updating the content on the site in small ways. On other days, we push bigger changes that have taken a day [...]
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Search engine round-up: ranked #1 on Google!
A month ago I posted about how we were ranking on the top 3 search engines. At that time, we were #2 on Google and only findable on Yahoo if you searched for “parentsguild.com”. Good news! Today we are #1 on both Google and Yahoo for “parents guild” (2 words, no quotes needed). To celebrate, [...]
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Blueprint CSS grid layouts
Two nights ago we decided to switch to using Blueprint CSS grids for our page layout. Why? Because we were struggling to align things visually on the page using CSS floating divs left and right, and because (as an fyi to those of us who last dabbled in web design in the last millennium) html [...]
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The Demise of Online Communities
Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood’s Stack Overflow podcast this week had some interesting things to say about the success and failure of online communities. They cited a recent post by Robert Scoble as well as Clay Shirky’s assertion: “A Group is its Own Worst Enemy”. Problems they (Joel, Jeff & Robert) raised: streams of newbies [...]
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If you’re reading this…
know that parentsguild.com is now live and has a new, working (we think!) registration system to manage signups. There’s a lot of basic stuff left to do, but if you’d like to kick the tires and start trying to use the thing, by all means, have at it! In addition to the new registration system [...]
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