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Over the weekend we rolled out the Spanish version of Noveleros.com.  Considering the website focuses on Spanish Telenovelas, it only make sense that we offer the site in the language that Novelas are broadcast in.

In our defense, we are more comfortable with English, which is why we launched with an English-only version. We were able to get some help with the translation. For the most part, the translations were fairly direct.  However, some of the items were difficult to translate, as we could not do direct translation and had to use web-context-specific translations.

When a visitor arrives at the site, we determine what language their browser is set to.  If it is either English or Spanish, we set the site accordingly. If we cannot determine, we default to English.

Overall it was a fun learning experience and who know, we might expand into different languages...

Espero que les guste.

- Andrés

I had mentioned in a previous post that I am working on a new website for Telenovela fans.  Well, I've been busy working on the site that I did not have much time to blog.  However, now I am glad to announce that the website is finally live: www.noveleros.com !

This has been a long time coming... I had the initial idea in my head since the middle of last year and spent about 6 months planning the site. For the past 8 months I would work on the site whenever I had any free time. So while the site is now live, I'm treating this as a soft-launch. There are still several features missing (Actors section, translate the site to Spanish, etc.), which I'll be working on in the next couple of weeks, but in the mean-time, the core functionality is there:

• Member Registration
• Telenovela Profiles (Synopsis, Reviews, Photos, Fans)
• Member Section (Profile, Skins, Reviews, Friends)
• Member account
• Admin
• Nice website design

Please feel free to let me know what you think (like, dislike, feature you would like to see).

You can also check out my profile: http://noveleros.com/user/andres.aspx

- Andrés