My life in Steamboat Springs and other places (and plenty of opinion, which you're free to ignore)
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
What's Chinese for stupid?
News flash for the web site designer who decided that http://www.priorityclub.com should bring up the Chinese version of the site because it's detected that you're in China (presumably from the IP address): because you're in China doesn't mean you can read Chinese!
Like so many examples of bad design, this is basically a case of a good idea badly executed that could easily and inexpensively be fixed (in this case the solution is as simple as adding a "click here for English" hyperlink).
By the way my colleagues here in the Beijing office tell me the answer is "ben" (pronounced more like "bn" as best I can tell).
Update: There actually is a drop down box for language selection. Of course if you don't read Chinese how would you know that this is it:
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