September 2000
Globalization—Catching the Big Fish
Going Global: Hungry for New Markets
By Howard Schwartz
As the Web becomes truly world wide, site developers will need to address multilingual and cross-cultural issues. Howard sorts out the concepts of internationalization and localization, and explains how they relate to your company's future.
Speaking in Charsets: Building a Multilingual Web Site
By John Yunker
Creating Japanese Web pages presents its own unique set of challenges. John guides you through the quagmire of character sets, encodings, glyphs, and other mysterious elements of written language.
S T R A T E G Y :
Upper Hand
With all this talk of the challenges of globalization and internationalization, Sandy Tapper wonders, is it worth the trouble?
Corporate Strategist
Cheryl Currid provides tips for staying afloat
on global seas.
Product Reviews
Translation and localization services.
D E S I G N :
Integrated Design
Color can entice, frighten, persuade, sell, and even inspire visitors.
Molly Holzschlag helps you make sure you're painting the right picture.
Inside Design Shops
Lucas Daniel notices that the media has been dangling a lot of hype about broadband, but are designers biting?
Culturally Correct Site Design
When it comes to adapting an existing Web site for a new audience, learn from the successes of big-name players. Olin Lagon leads the way.
Product Reviews
PhotoImpact 5.0 and GIF Animator 4.0
Product Reviews
Inspiration 6.0.
P R O G R A M M I N G :
Java@Work
Al Williams takes a look at resource bundles
for supporting multiple languages.
Programming with Perl
Randal L. Schwartz combines text and color for an effect that would make Impressionists proud
Script Junkie
Paul Dempsey helps users navigate in the real world with an interactive map.
XML@Large
Extensibility's XML Authority provides needed flexibility when working with schema. Michael Floyd tells you more.
Same Time Next Month?
Database systems may allow flexible date formats, but not all agree
on the same format. Brian Jepson gives you the rundown.
Product Reviews
Sun Java Internationalization and Localization Toolkit 2.0, and Multilizer Java Edition Pro 2.0.
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E :
Platforms
Ray Valdés promises that discussion forum software will have visitors returning to your site like salmon.
WIRM: A Perl-Based Application Server
Perl may be "just a scripting language," but Web information systems are best built using such small, freestanding components. Rex Jakobovits explains.
Product Reviews
Enterprise Translation Server 3.0.
E N D TO E N D :
The Home Page
Editor in Chief Amit Asaravala recommends that before you think globally, make sure your business is sound locally.
Webmaster's Domain
Lincoln D. Stein shows you how to protect your network with secure shell.
Redirect
Baseball, apply pie, and corrupting the spirit of the Internet. Where the Web is concerned, the American dream is keeping other countries awake at night. Dale Dougherty reflects.
Haiku Review
Harmony between the yin of products announcements and the yang of poetry can be found here.
Help Desk
Ernest Black advises against framesets, tells you how to roll your own submit button, and more.
Bookmarks
Eugene Eric Kim tackles on a task that's not all too daunting—reviewing Unicode: A Primer.
The Last Page
As the Internet becomes a grrrl thing, Michael Swaine muses on male pattern cluelessness, megalomania, and Martha Stewart.
Mailto:
Readers tell us what they think.
