Abstract
Homepage Builder is a very popular HTML Authoring tool in Japan. Homepage Builder project has been expanded its market to globally outside of Japan after the initial success in Japan. In 2001,Homepage Builder is available for 10 language versions including Japanese. This paper describes the chronology of the products towards the world wide market and describes a difference of project management by the difference of a project sponsor. This paper also introduce the project case of version 6 which was translated from Japanese to English and other eight languages. The case include, scope definition, definition of translated language, development funding source and relation of PM and other stakes holders, team, communication to non-development organization and technical lessons of translation projects.
