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.