It’s nice to see GoDaddy improving its global gateway. Note the use of the globe icon below to indicate the global gateway menu: Click on the globe or locale name and you’ll see the following menu: It’s text-only, easy to …
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You can be a wildly successful global company and still have a poorly localized website. A number of factors determine global success and the website is only one of these factors — unless of course you’re an Internet-based company (you’ll …
Read moreThe worst global websites of the 2014 Web Globalization Report Card
I’ve long talked about the importance of non-Latin domain names, or IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names). Google has gone live with one if its many IDNs: みんな. I want to emphasize here that this is a top-level IDN — that is, the …
My latest post for client Pitney Bowes on localizing for Canada. An excerpt: As they begin their global expansion, American companies often select Canada first under the assumption that the market will be easier to succeed in than more distant …
Read moreLocalizing your website for Canada: It’s more challenging than you might think