Manifestations of culture in website design

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-132

  Kim, Inhwa ^a   Kuljis, Jasna ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Website design

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; WEBSITES;

CULTURAL BOUNDARIES; USER INPUT;

WEB DESIGN;

EID: 84870375449     PISSN: 13301136     EISSN: 18463908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2498/cit.1001806     Document Type: Article

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