16 July, 2003. Meeting with Marijke Wilhemus of Internet Fiji

Usability concerns

"very little usability done in this country"

Language

• simple English
• Hindi and Fijian would be ideal, but rarely ever used
• French and Italian are more likely translations, as foreigners are the target web audience with $$$

Bandwidth

• must be fast, few images
• extreme attention to alt tags

Accessibility

• they use the international standards of http://www.w3c.org to assess accessibility, and extrapolate this into usability

Audience

• target audience is usually international
• fiji accounts for only 4% of their traffic

Development

• use php scripts they purchase, and then adapt
  • CMS
  • page publishers
  • search engine
  • "too expensive to reinvent the wheel"
• web market saturated
  • businesses for whom web is not primary business sell web services at a loss to get customers
  • also some template-based businesses that severely undercut the local market
• list of Fiji web design and multimedia cos at FijiWebDesign