TIPS AND RESOURCES
Here are a few tips I've put together to assist those working with the Japanese web. I hope to gradually add to the below as relevant material presents itself.

Click on each of the links below to go to the respective tip.

• Be sure to encode your pages with the correct language format
  Web browsers generally can't "guess" what language a particular web page is in, so make it easy on your visitors by explicitly specifying the language of each of the pages on your site...
   
• Implement a simple language-based traffic filter
  If your web hosting company gives you access to PHP, here's a simple free technique for sorting your incoming visitors automatically by language.
   
• Explore the Japanese web with an English computer
  A look at several ways you can view and interact with Japanese websites even if you only have an English-language computer system.
   
• Learn about the most popular Japanese search engines
  A brief guide to where the traffic is flowing...