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Mummy baby groups in Barcelona

Karen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:47:16 +0000

Three and a half months after having my baby, I think I have discovered a good number of expat mummy baby groups in Barcelona. I´ll list them here for the benefit of other new mommies that are looking to make contact and share :

Mondays

Between 12 and 3pm there is a group that meet up at a shop called MUJER in Barrio Gotic, the Monday group is best for mums with small babies, if your baby can crawl best come to the Wednesday group.

Tuesdays

At around 11am there is a group that meet up in different locations around the city to go for a “stroll” and a chat. Sign up through Barcelona Tots google group, to find out when their next outing is .

From 4-5pm there is a Music group at the Centre Civic Parc Sandaru (near estacio nord) this is also organised by Barcelona Tots.

Wednesdays

Again you can go to MUJER from 12-3pm.

If it is a sunny afternoon, there is a group who meet up in Parc Ciutadella during the summer at about 4.30pm.

Groups organised by your CAP

I also go to a free baby massage group offered at my CAP (Valldoreix) if your Spanish/Catalan are any good, I encourage you to find out from your midwife of any groups they have on offer. I love going to the massage group, not only is it nice for Lucia, but it gives me a chance to interact with the Catalan Mummies and get a little more integrated.

Well, it is a little early week heavy, but there are often other events taking place, if you hang out with some of these groups I’m sure you’ll find out about them. Also make sure to subscribe to their RSS or Email updates where available.

If you know of any other groups, I’d love to hear about them, please do share in the comments section.

Don’t read funny blogs whilst putting your baby to sleep

Karen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:44:12 +0000

I often sneak a peak at Google Reader on my iPhone whilst hushing baby to sleep at night. I was reading this post about wine tasting and nearly laughed out loud totally ruinning all my hard work. Holding in a laugh makes it last so much longer than just letting it out.

What is a browser?

Karen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:41:18 +0000

Some times what we assume is common knowledge is not at all. It is not rare that when I ask a client what browser they’re viewing the website on I’m met by a moment of thought and then the inevitable question, how do I find that out?

Multilingual Content Management Systems

Karen — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:37:58 +0000

I’m on a mission, I have a new project and it is my true first multilingual website, so I’m scowering the web for a content management system that will help me complete the brief with the easiest of ease. So without further due, here are the results…

Word Press

Using the WPML plugin and a theme built specifically to handle multilingual content. You can find a list of “translation ready” Wordpress themes on the wordpress.org site, simply select “translation-ready” and hit search, results are displayed directly below the search form.

Website baker

You have to have some basic knowledge of PHP to edit the templates to enable users to choose which language they want to view the site in. I don’t want to be messing around with code, for those who do, here is a useful link:

Step by step instructions on how to set up your multilingual site with Website Baker

Content Now

According to their site:

Multilingual sites can be developed by duplicating contents of a language site version. And it’s just one click!

Sounded promising, but after navigating their site I found very little pertaining to support documentation or a community of developers. On closer inspection, their site isn’t even multilingual.

phpComasy

Looks like it is a great product, if you understand German… on entering their English support pages you’re presented with this statement:

This documentation is currently very small. If you are able to read German, please have a look in our German documentation of phpComasy.

I’m no expert developer, I will need support and I want it to be “easy”. Another dead end for me…but ideal for German speakers.

TribIq

Whoo pretty! and they are boasting about exactly the feature I’m after. This is a well developed CMS, they have a free “community” version which you can install on your server. Once your site outgrows this basic version there are Pro and Business upgrades, which, of course, you have to pay for. However the free version is feature rich and you can do almost everything on it.

It’s only downfall is the lack of downloadable templates and skins. Of course you could design and code your own if you’re that way inclined.

The verdict

I’m biased, I have previous WordPress experience and so I’m half way there on the learning curve. True, I’ve never had to develop a multilingual site in WordPress, however I’ll have a go and report back on my exeriences. I thought I would at least look arround and see what else is out there, but nothing I’ve seen has tempted me away from WordPress. Well, exept maybe Tribiq, which I will try if WordPress turns out to not be flexible enough for my needs.

I’m drawn to Tribiq’s ability to allow you to create a page with any layout you want, something that has always bugged me about WordPress, is that you can almost always tell by the layout and the elements on the page when a site is powered by WordPress.