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Wow! This explains why finding a parking spot becomes harder every day. Thanks for investigating, Ronald.

Not sure how reliable this source is, but this one claims about 300,000 new births each day.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060826005652AAwD8pP

This is very odd, indeed. I suppose there is something wrong with the source of data.

Odd that the child birth rate fell so dramatically in 2002. In that year just over 4 million children were born in the US.
A far cry from the 300 million claimed here.

If the blog was enginering related, I wouldn’t have changed it. Actually, if it was my blog, I wouldn’t have changed it at all, even if it still was about food. That’s because I would have targeted people who cook AND know how to use computers and internet. However, if we target housewives who have a computer in the house but don’t have too much experience in using it, I would make it a bit more intuitive for them.

There is one more thing tough. If you have an engineering related blog, would you still change the layout of your blog from what it was before? I think not. You can only write about what you know best, and what you know best describes you, and what describes you, makes you, and you made that blog! So leave-it as it is. Your readers will be one of your kind.

Thanks everybody for the comments. I know my friend is extreme and not very flexible, but this case helped me to make a point: try to test your site with people having different background, and different computer usage experience than you do.

Of course I will not make all the changes like she wanted, but I’ll make some, as I’m curious to put them at test. However, I’ll keep the functionality, because as you say, Jason, newbies have to learn the rules.

Hey, Jayne, I didn’t post here what I told her about her computer skills . You are right, working for such people is hard work, and I’m not doing it, either. This is one of the very few exceptions, and it is not exactly “work”, it is rather helping a friend.

And yes, Ronald, we are talking about a 25 years friendship here, so we can talk like that without getting offended (although I must confess that a few times, during some long travels we did together, I felt like dropping her from the car and leaving her in the middle of nowhere).

When someone says a website should behave like a book, I shudder to think of all the news sites I go to that could behave like newspapers. Yes, a website should be organized, but a book is a static piece that will not change, and a website is constantly changing.

I agree with the other commenters; your friend sounds kinda mean. But you must have a great friendship if you can be that honest with eachother.

I’m just dumbstruck at your friend’s rather caustic and ungrateful attitude. I can understand that she might be a newbie, but those comments just weren’t nice. It’s tough to build a blog or a site for someone who knows little to nothing about the internet and how sites function. I stopped putting together sites for other people because of the enormous effort it took, and more often than not there was very little gratitude.

My brother has what I’d consider a niche blog. It was designed, by me, with the intent to market his music and to build his editorial writing skills. When he got into blogging he didn’t know very much, other than what he liked. Because he was a good student I managed to mesh what he wanted with good blogging functionality. In a year, his knowledge in blogging has grown, sales increased on his album and his singles, and his writing has attracted just the kind of attention he’s wanted.

The thing we’ve both found important in the development of his blog is feedback. I rather like your thinking about asking your grandmother and a 7 year old for a critique. It may be humourous, but has more merit than one might think. Getting feedback from a diverse group can only serve to help you tighten up your site and teach you better blogging habits.

Great article, Simonne!