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Month: April 2015

Will FedEx plus TNT equal an improved global website?

April 27, 2015 by John Yunker

As FedEx closes its acquisition of TNT Express, I see an opportunity for FedEx to improve its global website. In the recent Web Globalization Report Card, among delivery services companies, …

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Categories Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Do your web developers know about Globalize?

April 23, 2015 by John Yunker

Today, the JQuery Foundation has announced availability of Globalize 1.0: Globalize provides developers with always up-to-date global number formatting and parsing, date and time formatting and parsing, currency formatting, and message …

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Categories JavaScript, Software Localization, Unicode, Web Globalization

Starbucks: The best global retail website

April 7, 2015 by John Yunker

For the 2015 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied 10 retail websites: Best Buy Costco GameStop Gap H&M IKEA McDonald’s Staples Starbucks Toys R Us UNIQLO Walmart Zara Out of those …

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Categories Retail globalization, Starbucks, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Adobe points to external localized tutorials

April 6, 2015 by John Yunker

Adobe provides French, German and Japanese tutorials for Photoshop Elements. But what about other languages? Until the funding comes along for additional translation, Adobe directs users to tutorials created in Spanish, Polish, …

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Categories Adobe, Languages, Uncategorized, Video

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