Internationalization News & Articles

Today's economy is growing internationally and likewise, online retailers need to be able to meet consumers wherever in the world they may be. Bridgeline Digital has updated its iAPPS suite to better enable web retailers and web publishers to meet the needs of an international audience.

One of the Worldwide Web Consortium's (news, site) main responsibilities is ensuring that standards in web markup are followed. In the wake of stakeholder discussions, such as the recently concluded working group discussions on multilingual web content practices, the organization has released its updated Internationalization Checker.

The Internet is such a ubiquitous part of daily existence that its omission from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs must have been accidental. The last three decades of the World Wide Web have fueled technical innovation at a rate that could only be described by its own measurement metaphor -- Internet speed. The pace, however, has also resulted in a chaotic set of standards and practices for using the web. What’s a techie to do? Not to worry -- the standards organization W3C (news, site) is already on the job.

It has been about an year since ICANN approved IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) on November 16, 2009. Now, the euphoria is over and the first adopters are already the proud owners of their Internationalized Domain Names. Many Web CMS with an IDN are already in operation but does this mean that you to need to rush to get your IDNs (if you still haven't done it, of course)?

Digitalus CMS is a fairly new player in the simple CMS market. Their first open source Zend/PHP-based version 1.0 was released in August 2008.

Recently, version 1.5 came out and caught our attention with new features like simple globalization capabilities, web-based installer and the 960 Grid system page layout management.

Some of Digitalus features are strikingly simple, others definitely call for some geeky brains.

What is Tridion? Or is it Trillian, Trideon or Tridian? What can we say, it’s tough being a Euro web content management vendor in the U.S. market.

After conquering most of Europe, SDL Tridion started its Web CMS quest in the U.S. in 2006 with their flagship CMS product — Tridion R5 — an offering that has received accolades from such critics as analyst firm, Gartner. R5 comes with a myriad of standard Web CMS features, like inline editing using SiteEdit and some unique functionality such as the Translation Manager.

This Quick Take Review is an overview of SDL Tridion R5.2 with a detailed summary, full of “meat,” at the tail end of this article.

The enterprise communication rogues at Thunderhead have just released v3.5 of their software. And for those seeking a catalytic spark of awesome for their business communications needs, it may just be the perfect brand of shock therapy.

The World Wide Web Consortium has been keeping us busy and is at it again, working to provide standards aimed at bringing some measure of sensibility to the wild world of web content.

Earlier this month, the W3C released a new Web Standard designed to help bring content to a broader international audience. Most recently they are focusing on internationalization tools for XML and XHTML content.

Web Content Management vendor Ektron, Inc. has taken aim at web content localization. The latest updates to their CMS 300 and CMS 400 .NET products include powerful new tools and support for translation, localization and the workflow needed to accomplish both.

Ektron’s CMS products support the complete translation and localization process by creating a tight integration between a Website’s native-language content and translated content within one content management solution (CMS).