“Latina Lista” Blog Offers Readers Pride and Opinion
A site that offers its audience a chance to show their pride and voice their opinions in a healthy supportive environment is a rare commodity. Latina Lista claims to offer “Anything and Everything From the Latina Perspective” and although most of this blog’s recent entries had to do with generalized topics like the economy and the upcoming election, the site does indeed offer the feminine hispanic view on these stories.
The site has a main blog page written by site publisher Marisa Trevino which users can connect to through its home page. However, the site also includes links to a “Linking Latinas” page (a blog connecting entries from Latinas from other countries), “Mediacasts” (an entertainment section featuring stories relating to hispanic performers and interests), “Discovering Worlds” (a section that contains book reviews), and “Building Dreams” (a section devoted to latina women who have acheived their goals and share their stories).
The site’s intentions are noble and the site itself seems like a good, supportive environment which informs its readership with intelligence and humor. (I loved the latest blog entry where Trevino says the stock “the stock market rises and plummets faster than a Six Flags roller coaster”.)
The design is, for the most part, very simple and effective. I like the look of the home page- a Latina take on the classic newspaper page. I wish that the site had kept a similar theme throughout. Instead, each subsequent page is plain text (of course, this is probably to keep the focus on the stories). Also, I’m not sure exactly how I feel about the home page having a link the size of any other on the page for the site’s online store. (It’s cool to express your pride, but this feels mildly exploitative-like your pushing the merchandise as much as the stories.)
All in all, the site seems perfect for it’s core audience. I wish that they had a similar site dedicated to my social group- 6’9″ tall, goofy white guys with delusions of granduer.
