Writing for the Global Web
For web developers responsible for localising their web site to other countries or cultures, “Writing for the global web” is a 1-day seminar that shows delegates how to communicate more effectively with an international audience. Unlike other courses, this seminar emphasises that it is not enough to just use the local language; the content has to be appealing and to "feel" local.
After attending this training course, you will be able to communicate more effectively with an online international audience. This seminar is led by Róisín Saunier.
Duration
This is a half-day seminar.
You will learn how to
- Develop audience awareness.
- Apply usability techniques to enhance online reading and comprehension.
- Reduce translation costs by following style guidelines for primary language documents.
- Adapt existing texts to an international readership.
- Edit material for translation and online publication.
- Avoid using culturally inappropriate images, metaphors, language and references.
This seminar is aimed at
- Technical writers
- Documentation managers
- Webmasters and Web designers
- Seminar developers
- Anyone writing online content
Price and availability
In-house seminar
We bring this course to you and run it for a fixed fee no matter where you are. Prices from £150/delegate + VAT (assuming 12 delegates).
To book an in-house seminar, phone us on 020 7917 9535, e-mail us at or use the fax back form in our brochure.
Vote for a public course
If you want us to run this seminar as a public course, just click on the button below. Once we get 8 like-minded individuals we'll organise a public course and let you know.
Customisation
We can customise this seminar by working with materials from your web site and we can present the seminar in English or French.
Money back guarantee
On completion of a public seminar, if you don't think that the training will help you do your job better, we will refund your registration fee in full.
More information
2008 Course Brochure, describing all our usability training seminars (pdf format, 796 Kb).
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