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Date:: 17 October 2007, 00:00–00:00 Coordinated Universal Time
Location:: San Jose, USA
Speakers:: Richard Ishida
Website:: Internationalization & Unicode Conference

his presentation will look a number of practical issues for people who develop web pages for a multilingual audience. Topics will include the dangers of composing sentences in content using scripting, strategies for designing layout so that text expansion during translation will not destroy your efforts, and the use of pull-down lists when navigating to localized content. We will explore some of the potential difficulties that can be encountered in these areas and pull together some best practices to help you avoid them.