How does one mine 'better'? I've lived under the assumption that a miner works to the extent of your hardware's capabilities, and that was just a hard limit.
This I don't see how a pool could be more newbie friendly as most pools now have very straight forward instructions to get setup. If u can't figure out how to setup yourself on a pool, you would need help on setting up a secure wallet, etc. Instead think about maybe creating a information resource for newbies.
Pardon the Quote-ception.
The hardest part is setting up the mining hardware, that's what the pool will focus on, getting you mining in the first place, explain pplns, pps, etc. It's just meant as a resource to help future miners.
It'll just be fun to run a small pool and help people out. If that's not useful, then so-what. I'll enjoy it anyhow.
PS: So close, getting the server ready, and waiting a bit for feedback.