The BBC World Service is a sub-division of the BBC which handles international broadcasting services for over 40 different languages. This project marked the move from the old static published pages to the new modular, responsive website, integrating with the English BBC News codebase.
During my employment, I worked on the release of the Afrique, Arabic, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Spanish and Russian sites and was exposed to the complexities of localisation including timezones, language, fonts, and layout. I had a leading role in developing the code to handle right-to-left layouts.
Due to the demographic of the services we supported, there was a large focus on supporting third-world technologies. Mobile first and progressive enhancement were extremely important for the World Service as we had to support the oldest Nokia devices connected to WAP internet.