As of today, Parents Guild (still in beta) has: 50 registered users! 53 questions 211 posts (questions + answers + comments) 94 votes Since our “soft” launch on Facebook a little more than a week ago, the site’s gotten: 502 visits 3,886 page views 7.74 pages/visit 7:34 average time on site About half the traffic [...]
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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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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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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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Want to see what we’re working on?
We’re hanging a front door on the site today so that we can proclaim ourselves open for business, even though we’re a ways away from having a working, live site. Today, we extend an invitation to our friends and family and to whomever stumbles on our homepage to formally sign up to be “friends of [...]
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We have a name!
Today we’ve selected a name and URL for our site-to-be: Parents Guild! Why we like it: The term guild suggests that parenting is a craft. It implies we are learning our craft as we go. We work together to share knowledge and learn from those who may have attempted or mastered some aspect or another [...]
