¡Hola!
Welcome to the new and improved SpanglishBaby! This has been in the works for several months now and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Hope you feel the same way!
If you’re new here, this will serve as a guide of sorts to keep in mind when navigating our site. If you’re not new, we still have all the great content as before, PLUS a few surprises.
One of the main things you’ll notice is that our new design is much cleaner and easier to navigate. After three years – our anniversary is in February – we have managed to amass a serious amount of content and we felt like a lot of it was lost in our prior version.
For starters, we’ve moved our main categories (check out the drop-down menus) to the navigation bar above, so that you can hopefully find what you’re looking for fairly quickly and easily. As you can see, our very popular Finds section is up there with a drop-down menu that includes everything from Activities & Printables to Educational Apps. By the way, you can expect lots more Apps reviews from now on.
A Few Surprises
- Because SpanglishBaby wouldn’t be what it is without our amazing contributors, they now have a special place to call their own: Meet La Familia.
- Under the Culture tab, you will find The Culture of Food, Cultural Travel (which has become a pretty popular category) and Bicultural Vida, the new category we’ve created for all those posts about what it’s really like to raise bilingual and bicultural children. In the Culture of Food, you can now search for recipes by country or region, which I think is super cool. Although the pressure’s on to make sure there are more recipes from Peru, mi patria!
- We’ve also added a whole new section dedicated to the topic of Bilingual Education, as you can see up above. Bilingual Ed is such an integral part of raising bilingual children that we figured it deserved it’s own separate section. We’re going to be adding a lot of content there, as Ana goes through the process of getting Camila into a dual language school in the fall for kindergarten. But the very best part of this section, in my opinion, is our user-generated searchable database of schools that offer any sort of instruction in Spanish. Searchable by location, our hope is that this becomes the repository of this type of info whether you’re looking for a preschool, a private after-school program or a public dual language immersion elementary school. Please help us accomplish that by submitting the schools you know!
- Finally, we’ve revamped our Ask an Expert section making it easier to find answers by sorting them by expert. Also, if you have a question, all you have to do is fill out this quick Aks an Expert form to submit it. Plus, we’re are super happy to announce that starting today, Julia Pimsleur Levine, the force behind the fabulous and extremely useful Little Pim products, will be one of our regular experts. Please help us welcome her to the SpanglishBaby Familia and read her answer to one reader’s question who’s concerned she’s hurting her son’s speech development by speaking only Spanish at home.
There’s lots more, but it’s probably better if you just explore away. We do want to know what you think, so PLEASE give us some feedback. We value your honest opinion and appreciate any comments that will make navigating SpanglishBaby an even better experience.
¡A explorar!
Ana + Roxana
{Photo credit: cameronparkins}
WooHOOO! It’s so amazing to see all of our hard work pay off. Congratulations on the launch!
Thanks so much to you and the whole A Small Nation team for making the vision a reality…and dealing with the ridiculous amount of content!! It was all worth it
Very nice and clean template. It’s easy to find everything by categories.
Congratulations
Glad to hear it, Edna! That’s exactly what we were going for…
It looks so amazing!
Gracias, Susan!! Did you like the Meet La Familia?
It looks great! Very clean, spacious, and easy to read, and I love the colors!
Thanks, Mariana! We were definitely going for clean and easy to read! And yes, we love the colors too!
Love it! It’s so clean and easier to read! Felicidades!
Gracias, Marcela!!
Felicidades!
Love the new design and colors!
I Follow the Chisme
Muchos exitos!
You both have really outdone yourselves this time! Love, love, love the bright feel to the new look plus the navigation seems crisper and quicker!
Hats off to you two amigas, Ana and Roxana, and to three years of wonderful sharing and meeting virtual friends who truly care.
It looks great. Congratulations!
It looks beautiful! I love the color blends on the nav bar and the whole feeling of it. Great job. Like a new baby;)
It is like a new bebé!!! Thanks for stopping by and letting us know what you think.
You guys look all grown up! It’s a beautiful design.
I love it! Congrats!
Lone the new look! And FELIZ third anniversary!!!!
Looks great! I am super-excited about the bilingual education section… looks like there is a lot of work to be done there. and I’m sure it will snowball in with all the parents and teachers networking to combine information. Is the newsletter the same as what we get if we “subscribe” via e-mail. As an avid fan, I don’t want to miss anything. Thanks for all you do!
Congratulations my dear friends! The website is beautiful and filled with such awesome content. I love it and I wish you all the best!
I am loving the new site! I especially like how you guys have incorporated the use of Spanish-English phrases here and there like “Bicultural Vida and Follow the chisme” …very cool. Thank you for having us be a part of the familia! I have learned a lot about being a mom on this site, and even more so how to stay motivated about my attempt to raise Sabrina with multiple languages—its hard work!!!
Les mando abrazos desde Austin!
Suzanne & Sabrina
Design look simple but neat and clean easy to navigate great template.