This is the 74th week of The Latino Newsletter, and it’s been a few weeks since I shared an update about us. I don’t know where to begin because the last month has been a whirlwind of some incredible activity. Consider this startup journey post the second part of our October news.

Now that we have a team in place (I will share our organizational chart before the December holiday break), I am putting the finishing touches on some outstanding items. One of them is our homepage and other pages at TheLatinoNewsletter.org.

It’s not that I didn’t like what the Beehiiv website builder gives to creators. We were part of the beta launch, and the tools are pretty intuitive to use, but I never had time to finish the design — or, better stated, I just need some help getting it to the finish line.

Enter the team at Boardbit, which Beehiiv listed on its directory of experts. Daniel wrote to me earlier this year when I was looking for help, and I was really happy when the team took us on as a client. We had an excellent creative session where I shared my thinking on The Latino Newsletter’s next growth phase. Having a site that is fully integrated with a newsletter was critical. Daniel and his team got it.

The entire creative process has been amazing. From my early days as a textbook editor — yes, even before the internet — I have always loved working in a space where both the textual and the visual play off each other. The work with Boardbit brought me back to those times. I enjoyed getting the different iterations and seeing it all come into place.

The full site will go live on November 24, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some screenshots of the final design product.

This is the homepage:

This is how we will feature our podcast via a YouTube RSS feed:

(And yes, I know we need to create title cards for YouTube. That will happen soon.)

This is a featured stories section that I just like:

And now we’ll have stronger category pages:

The Boardbit team is still working on the project, but I wanted to share the initial work because I am thrilled as to where The Latino Newsletter is headed.

The final product will have stronger donate and subscribe sections, richer author pages, a prominent funders page, and clear sections for sharing operational details and public financials.

I expect all of that to be done by the end of the year.

Let me know what you think, and thank you for supporting The Latino Newsletter.

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Julio Ricardo Varela is the founder of The Latino Newsletter. He is also its current part-time publisher and executive director. He wrote, edited, and published this edition of The Latino Newsletter.

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