How to Build a Successful International Web Site: Designing Web Pages for Multilingual Markets at the National and International Level [Paperback]

Mark Bishop (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997

Details how to create graphics in foreign languages, from start to finish. Includes discussion of European, Asian, and Unicode servers and browsers. Features include how to use HTML in every language, find and use multilingial Web specialists, and manage software to work and display in foreign languages.

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About the Author

Mark Bishop (Bellflower, CA) has collaborated with international Webmasters, worked with the Asian division of Sprint, and formed business partnerships in the Asian community. Among other publications, Bishop co-authored Web Programming Unleashed, produced a national online column called The Virus Informer, and currently is starting another column called The Internet Times.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576101584
• ISBN-13: 978-1576101582
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,799,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for creating a multi-lingual website, December 29, 1998

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Levi (Reston, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Build a Successful International Web Site: Designing Web Pages for Multilingual Markets at the National and International Level (Paperback)

I bought this book for a recent project for creating a multilingual website. This book really has a wealth of information about creating a multilingual/international website. A lot of the initial information concerned WHY you should have an international website, which I could have done without, but perhaps this would be helpful to some. Bishop gets into lots of areas of creating the site, including character encoding, priming your site for international search engines, using PDF, Real Audio, translation services, etc. There's almost too much to digest at one time. A whole chapter is devoted to resources on the internet, but Bishop provides links to appropriates sites throughout the book. My only complaint is that he didn't discuss how much Unicode has superceded some of the other character encoding schemes. By including so much information on other schemes, he seems to be indicating that Unicode is still not used by many, but it's a little unclear. However, this may not be a top issue for most, it just happened to be a question I'm coming up against in my project.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where can I find this wonderful book?, September 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Build a Successful International Web Site: Designing Web Pages for Multilingual Markets at the National and International Level (Paperback)

I heard about this book last week and I wanted 20 copies for my IT department at Zacky Farms. A friend lent me his copy and I was awakened by this insightful and very helpful "how-to" book.

If anyone is serious about Web e-commerce then they got to get this book! I heard a revision is upcoming, is this true?

Erica Hui, Senior CPA for International Sales

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as complete as I expected, February 1, 1999

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Thierry Sourbier ([e-mail]) (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Build a Successful International Web Site: Designing Web Pages for Multilingual Markets at the National and International Level (Paperback)

I haven't been impressed at all by this book. We are building a web site that will eventually use 11 languages so we have kind of a high interest and knowledge on the subject ;-).

We found that the book was rather imcomplete it doesn't talk about how codesets are handled in forms. It also contained some "errors" such as suggesting the use of a flag to represent the various language (this is definitelly not politically correct!).

But I guess for $20 you still get a few good tips.