This is our new world, according to Google Analytics. After months of getting traffic (people coming to our site) from people we had some relationship with – either users of the site clicking through an email or punching us up directly in their browser (Orange in the pie chart), or fans coming through a Facebook [...]
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Just launched: Sort by Score
Tonight’s minor launch update – you can now sort all us Guildmembers by score. (That is, if you’re logged in.) Score is now the default ordering for the People > Everyone page, but you can also choose to view Guildmembers sorted by our display names. The rationale: We’re trying to give everyone a chance to [...]
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Just launched: Follow this thread
We’d heard from a number of you that you’d like to be alerted about new activity on particularly juicy or relevant threads, even if you haven’t asked or answered on that particular thread. Included in this recent launch is a way to do this… You’ll see “Follow this thread” just under the body of the [...]
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Just launched: Scores all around!
We know what you were thinking… sure, the site is great and there’s some useful answers and all, but what it really needs is more numbers(!), more metrics and a little bit of friendly competition. Well, maybe you weren’t thinking that exactly. But we think we hope it’s a really good idea and we’d like [...]
Not gotten the answer you hoped for?
Have you posted a question and not gotten the pristine, unblemished, oracle-of-an-answer you hoped for? If so, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for! Send that sucker-of-a-thread to one, two or even three parents who you respect and admire, parents who could answer that question in their sleep with one hand blocking out the [...]
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Experimenting with Ads
Today is quite the milestone. We decided to greet March with our first experiment in advertising. We’re giving Google Adsense a test drive first, though we also opened an account with Amazon Associates. So far, we’ve learned: It takes a day or two to get approved for an Adsense account, but after that it’s about [...]
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Just launched: de-duped topics & randomized images
We rolled out two small updates last night. One is easy to see – each time you return to the homepage, a randomly-selected photo from Babymoon Photography should greet you. There are 10 photos in all (at least for the time being). Feedback welcome! The other is harder to see but arguably more important. Steve [...]
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New homepage photos!
Sunday saw the first of a new set of header photos gracing the homepage. They’re provided to us by super-brilliant child photographer, Lilia Schwartz, of Babymoon Photography. Here’s a screenshot: Check out Lilia’s Babymoon Photography site or blog to see more of her amazing work. Also, check out the homepage every so often to see [...]
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Everyone, say hello to everyone!
You remember how the People button on the navigation bar was not working for the longest time, and then, well, it was working but it had a sub-navigation button called “Everyone” that showed a grand ole “Coming Soon!” page? Well, today is a brand new day. We are unveiling YOU, our loyal guildmembers, so you [...]
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Just launched: New Navigation Bar
Last night we launched a brand new menu navigation bar for Parents Guild. As you know, the old bar looked like this: Old Navigation Bar And the new bar looks like this: New Navigation Bar Why did we change the navigation bar? For a few reasons: We want to give multiple ways to find questions [...]
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