Thank you. I am relying on client for all content and cultural advising! (Although she said "get used to it" as apparently she's soliciting more business for me, with great optimism... ) I appreciate the links! Thank you. hmm. tippage. + pimpage... <tip> I like to use big giant black and white photos as background images. To reduce filesize and make said image less distracting overall, you can, in photoshop, when you are doing "export for web," set it to blur. I set the blur to "1." examples... http://www.seastorm.com/myspace/backgrounds/bears_max1.jpg http://www.seastorm.com/myspace/backgrounds/discourage_blur.jpg (and vorsicht! this last one is loud punkrock...) http://www.myspace.com/serpentone </tip> Erika ------------------ Christian Heilmann wrote: >>> Usually, I put this at the top of my websites: >>> >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> >>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> >>> >>> >>> I have never built a site in a non-English character set. >>> What do I need to know/do differently? >>> (knowledge or linkage appreciated) >> I built this part of this site in Hebrew: > > Splendid, so the options are English or Hebrew? :-) > Let's now get an email for every language and encoding out there. > > There are some good Internationalization (i18n) resources out there: > > http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/QH/WP5/WD-int-primer-20020901.html > http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/ > > Bear in mind though that going UTF-8 and the right HTML is only one > small part of i18n, there are also a lot of cultural differences likes > and usage patterns to think about. > >
