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When you think of the people who use your website, where do they use it? At work or a home office? What about a mobile phone? What about even more diverse devices like Amazon's Kindle or the Nintendo Wii? Dave Shea asks us to reconsider how and where people use our websites, and how best to tackle the demands of building sites for a wide array of devices.

Are you an English-centric web designer or developer? Perhaps it’s time to become a world-savvy web designer, as our new columnist Huiping Iler suggests, in her interview with Richard Ishida, the Internationalization Activity Lead for the W3C. Many of us haven’t yet grasped the big picture of the global marketplace, and this interview will open our eyes to new ideas and a wealth of resources.

Judging by the upsurge of interest in internationalization over the past year, it is a subject to which increasing numbers of web professionals are paying careful attention. If you are in a position where foreign markets play a role in your online strategy, join new Digital Web author Huiping Iler as she shares her secrets for creating a successful international website.

Daunted by that multilingual site project around the corner? Designing and developing for multiple locales is a complex task. Get your head around the basics of internationalization in this primer.