> I see this attitude all the time with my web clients. It's still hard for
> many people to grasp that the web is global, and that they need to allow
> for this in their site. It affects web design in all kinds of ways.
So what sort of things have you come across? And what do you do
about it?
We have it relatively easy here in that the local (i.e. NZ) community
has always been forced to look internationally to succeed anyway.
It's easier for people in Christchurch (and in some cases cheaper!)
to ship to the US West Coast than to get stuff north to Auckland.
For our own part, we have a simple routine of putting our
international clients on our California-based server (anyone here
from Santa Rosa?), and our domestically oriented ones on our
Chrsitchurch server. That tends to sort the chickens from the
eagles (or some other such mangled metaphor).
Spelling and grammar is a tricky one, seeing as how you guys
have mangled the King's English :-)
Another line of work we have is editing material on a daily basis for
major international clients in Japan, some British some US, so we
switch between "dialects" as required. I've set up a fun site for
science and technology news (http://SciTechDaily.com) and have
been wavering over the language I should use on it but (sadly) have
come to the conclusion that I'll generally us US spelling on it, so
as not to give away my antipodean origins.
> Interestingly, when the telegraph debuted 150 years ago, some predicted
> this same process. Of course, it didn't happen because access to the new
> device was extremely limited, and what you could transmit was also
> limited.
Anyone read "The Victorian Internet", regarding the days of the
telegraph pioneers? I came across a great review of it which I put
up on SciTech Daily but I (oops, almost used the NZ vernacular
"buggered up", but I figure that might be a no-no for this
audience)..er..made a mistake and lost the URL. If anyone comes
across a review for it, do please let me know as I had a number of
readers want to try it down.
Cheers,
Vicki Hyde
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