At yesterday’s ZenaCamp in Genova, I gave a presentation on the main issues that are frequently encountered when creating sites for an international audience:
- Language
- Accented Characters and Symbols
- Language Variants
- Culture
A particular focus was made on user issues, such as providing a page in the right language to a site visitor while allowing them to override the choice – and remembering their choice upon successive site visits.
Search engine optimization was also discussed as there are several techniques which can be used to help search engines correctly identify a web page’s language.
If you’d like a copy of the presentation, please contact me.
Gianfranco Chicco captured several happy campers right after lunch!
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