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Entries Tagged as 'Global navigation'

The “age gateway” comes of age

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

For years I’ve been preaching the importance of the “global gateway” — the elements that Web sites use to seamlessly direct Web users to their localized Web sites and content, such as this splash global gateway:

But there is a different type of gateway out there that is worth mentioning — a gateway unique to the [...]

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Tags: China · Global navigation · Web Globalization

Taking Web forms global

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Web form usability expert Luke Wroblewski provides a very handy article on the challenges of developing Web input forms that work in various countries.
Data input and output is where Web localization projects often sink or swim. And Web forms can give a global marketing director night sweats.
Luke stresses that if you can identify the user’s [...]

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Tags: Global navigation · Web Globalization

Google perpetuates the American .com myth

July 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Google features a 4th of July logo at Google.com today.
This is not all that unusual; Google has been doing this for several years now. But there is an inherent flaw in hosting an American visual at Google.com: The .com address is not synonymous with USA.
I know, it’s a picky thing. And yet it’s not such [...]

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Tags: Global navigation · Languages · Translation · Web Globalization

The art & science of global navigation: June 3rd

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

My second Lionbridge Webinar is scheduled for June 3rd at 1 pm EST and you can register for it here.
The topic is global navigation — why it’s so important and how to improve upon it. I wrote an ebook about this topic two years ago. Since then, geolocation and language negotiation have become more commonly [...]

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Tags: China · Domain names · Events · Global navigation · Software Localization · Vendors · Web Globalization

Web globalization webinar follow-up

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The Lionbridge webinar yesterday has been archived for those of you who couldn’t make it. You can register to listen to the call at the Lionbridge site.
And mark your calendars for June 3rd, when I will host a second webinar, also sponsored by Lionbridge, to discuss the many aspects of global navigation — from splash [...]

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Tags: Domain names · Events · Global navigation · Vendors · Web Globalization