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It’s all Chinese to me

Posted by Blanca in 40, My projects on March 11th, 2009

When I was checking my websites and blogs’ stats earlier today, I realized that Forty-something.com had two visits from Guangzhou, China this morning. The visitors spent quite some time browsing the site, and what puzzled me is that I could not recognize their referral source.

So, I followed the link that brought these Chinese visitors to site and realized that they had used Google Translate. Although I find this tool’s translations very inaccurate it was great fun to see what the site looks like in Chinese. (click on the image to enlarge it)



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Video: Why you should love being in your forties!

Posted by Blanca in 40, My projects on January 11th, 2009

Still excited and full of ideas to bring www.forty-something.com to the next level, I put together a very simple video highlighting the reasons why being over 40 is … ahem … so great. I will be using it as a PR tool moving forward.

With only 6 days to go until my own 40th birthday, I have to confess that I am finally starting to believe it!


The song I used is “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera.

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Forty-something.com is an Award Winner!

Posted by Blanca in 40, My projects on January 7th, 2009

Just before Christmas I was happily surprised to learn that my website http://www.forty-something.com/ was selected as one of the finalists of “The Best of SynthaSite” contest.

A couple of hours ago I found out that it is the Award Winner in the ‘personal category’ from more than 1,000 entries from around the world … and I am totally thrilled with the news.

There were two categories in the competition – Business and Personal – and the top 5 finalists in each category were selected by a panel of expert judges who evaluated each site for focused purpose, visual appeal and innovative use of widgets. The winners in each category were voted on and selected by friends and users of SynthaSite.

You can read the press release issued by SynthaSite here.

Thank you very much for your support — this one is dedicated to all my forty-something friends!!

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Vote for my website!

Posted by Blanca in My projects on December 11th, 2008

As I wrote a few weeks ago, I decided to stop moaning about the fact that I am turning 40 very soon and decided to put my thoughts on the subject into a website. (I confess that I am still whining occasionally, though!)

My idea is to slowly create a useful source of information for women in their 40s, hence I called it forty-something.com.

Earlier today, while checking the site’s traffic statistics, I realised that there has been an unusually high number of hits since yesterday. First thought is that the server was being hacked. But when I checked the referrals, I happily realised that the reason for so many visits is that the website has been nominated a finalist on the “Best of Synthasite” competition (Synthasite is a great tool I used to build the website.)

So, if you have 5 minutes, please go to: http://bestof.synthasite.com/personal-websites.php and vote for http://www.forty-something.com/

If not for me, do it for all the 40-somethings you know out there!

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Forty-something dot com

Posted by Blanca in 40, My projects on November 15th, 2008

I am very excited with my latest online project: www.forty-something.com. I decided to stop moaning about turning 40 and put my thoughts to some good use by creating a website dedicated to all 40-something women out there.

This is a live project, so what you find now on the site is just the beginning of what I hope will become a complete source of information and articles covering everything that is interesting for a woman in her 40s: beauty, fashion, health, jobs, romance, shopping, etc.

There is little out there that targets women by age, so this should be an interesting project with – hopefully – good potential.

The site includes a shopping section with gift ideas and more.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

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