[thelist] Chinese language site

[Michael McGlynn]

I am bidding on a fairly large site for a manufacturing firm. Because they
do business in China, they would like the site to have a Chinese language
component. I hope to draw on the vast knowledge of the board to answer these
questions, and bring up more:

1) Is the Chinese Language Pack that is available from Microsoft a browser
technology or an operating system technology? In other words, if I pull it
down can I see Chinese sites in other browsers?

2) What is the different between Chinese and simplified Chinese? What is
more commonly used on Chinese web sites?

3) My client has a translator, but how will he suppply me text content? Are
there applications that he uses to edit text that will export ASCII?

4) Should graphics with text have Chinese text? How do I add text in say,
Photoshop? Is there a font set? Many sites I see have English navigational
graphics (Home, About Us, Contact, etc.) What is preferable?

5) Am I crazy to bid on this site based on the above?

Thanks fo the help. Now, a tip:

<tip type="hover style on images">
Watch using a background color on your hover style. If a transparent image
has an HREF, the hover background will show through, and that's usually not
what the intention was. Create a pseudo style like A: hover.imageStyle if
your browser will support it.
</tip>


Mike



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