Pull-Down Menus Are A Global Problem
As companies add more and more localized Web sites to their portfolio, they are increasingly resorting to using pull-down menus for navigation. Yet as the FedEx gateway (below) illustrates, pull-down …
Month: March 2004
Localization Down Under
Here is a very nice article by Evelyn Olsen on the New Zealand translation industry. Her company is NZTC, and for those who manage competitive companies, I recommend taking a …
Free Localization Primer
The Localization Industry Standards Assocation (LISA) offers a free localization primer available for download. The guide is available in 9 languages, including Arabic. Over 52 pages, the guide covers the …
Africa and the Internet
The USC Online Journalism Review has an excellent article about the state of Internet penetration in Africa. Needless to say, this region has largely missed out on the Internet revolution, …
It Is Time We Standardize Global Web Navigation
Global Web site navigation is a hot topic these days, and it seems every site has a slightly different way of solving that eternal problem of getting people to their …
Beware The Globalization Bubble
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has neatly divided globalization into three software-like stages, as follows: The first era, from the late 1800’s to World War I, was driven by …
Google Watch: More Tools; More Languages
Google continues its global growth campaign by launching News Alerts in four additional languages: French – www.google.fr/newsalerts German – www.google.de/newsalerts Italian – www.google.it/newsalerts Spanish – www.google.es/newsalerts Google also has localized …