Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies

HANDS-ON: SPANISH

Introduction This is the first of six Hands-On chapters. Collectively, they demonstrate the process (and challenges) of localizing an English language web page into multiple languages. After completing all the Hands-On chapters, you will have localized one web page into eight languages—the languages spoken by more than 80% of the world’s population. If you’d like to try your hand at these exercises, all files used in these chapters are available for download; go to www.bytelevel.com/beyondborders.

Speakers worldwide: 322 million (28 million in Spain)

(source: Ethnologue, 14th edition, 2000 www.Ethnologue.com)

ISO country code: ES

Difficulty rating: 2 (see Figure 1)

Figure 1. The difficulty ratings used in Chapter 1, “In ...