I need helpful feedback....

Note: I am playing with the site a lot as people are offering me suggestions offlist. Colors, backgrounds and suchlike. I am not a visual person so if any of these changes are difficult or do not show up on your screen well, please let me know. I'm grateful for the help.. and will not be offended if someone tells me one of these changes completely suck! :)

And one more thing.. to my regular readers: I Value You! Please don't ever think otherwise. I believe that any person wants to grow their site and it doesn't diminish anyone at all.

So. Please. Hear! Me!

I Value All Of You...

...probably more than you can know or I can explain.

I'm just trying to improve the site. Really. That's all!

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Okay. I can see this site is going down the tubes fast.

The truth is that my knowledge about this kind of thing is simply not present. I don't know what to do to generate more interest. I don't know what to write that will make people want to interact with me.

And I don't know if I have the energy to attempt to rebuild it without help. Well, I know I don't.

When I noticed the decline, I wrote to a guy who often posts about this kind of thing on his blog and he gave me "I'll get back to you" but didn't.

So I'm putting this out to anyone who reads here.

What is it you want from me? What would it take for this site to become lively again, for people to find interest in it?

Or... is it simply not possible?

Up until two weeks ago, my traffic wasn't bad (around 100 visits a day) and comments were over 20 a day.

Now it is down to 65 visits a day.. and 6 comments.

Maybe I don't have what it takes to do this anymore... but I sure do need some help and some input from others! Maybe there was some discussion about this at BlogHer? How are others doing it? I don't see anyone else experiencing this, not among the blogs I visit anyway.

It's not that I don't value those who come here. I DO! Truly! But I also value active input. There is no insult intended when I address this issue. I just know there must be someone out there who can educate me.

So.. if you are out there.. please? Help?

If you would feel more comfortable talking to me privately, please feel free to do that. Any way... I just need the input. Seriously.

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