FIRST THOUGHTS
Sometimes the best way to learn how to do something is to jump right in and try it yourself. The Hands-On chapters in this book are designed to ease you into web localization, beginning with Spanish and graduating to increasingly challenging languages. The focus of these chapters is on the technical and logistical challenges of web localization.
The source web page (see Figure 2) is about as simple as a web page can get. There is no functionality and only one graphic (used for the navigation bar). The text of the web page is the “Tower of Babel” passage from the Bible. Although there’s a certain irony to translating this passage into multiple languages, it was chosen for practical reasons. Because the Bible is one of the most ...
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