English UK vs English US

I was talking to my friend about a website me and him have started and its called forum centre but that's English uk the us for is forum center what should I uses uk or us?? and in the site for words that are spelt differently?

I would use center, since it makes more sense when it comes to 'fonics', if you know what I mean. Someone who isn't good reading English would pronounce the 'tre' as if it were the number 3 in Italian.

Who is your target audience? If UK, then use UK, otherwise use US

Isn't the target anyone who wants to read it? That's who my target would be.

yar like don2007 said anyone who wants it!

If your target is everyone; Define "everyone".

What are you selling?

I see the target audience as the people you would prefer to approach your site. So if you'd like Americans to be the people you are focusing on then choose "center".

It also depends on what service it is you are also offering and who it is for.

Me personally would use the American spelling as you would be targeting a larger audience. I believe it's spelt the same in Canada too so you'd also be looking at getting people on board from the whole of North America.

If I have to define everyone, there is a big problem.

Again, what are you selling, what is the content about? Is a search engine, social networking site, a linkster? Are you planning to make revenue with ads or services? Where will the site be marketed by means other than the internet?

Give us something to go on. What makes it soooo universal?

I think we all know the definition of "everyone" Don. I am wondering (and I think a few others are too) is how you or tatsysite or anyone for that matter would put up a website without having a target audience that is more specifically defined, based on the content of the site. I'll agree that "everyone" could be a target audience, but it's going to be infrequent if your site markets a specific service or product, or even geographic location.

As it stands right now, none of us knows what tastysite's "forum centre" site is about. Very hard to offerr specific advice pertaining to the actual question without knowing that, or as I asked originally without knowing the target audience.

Leave it to the UK to go and butcher our language with their crazy reversed letters and extra u's!

Lest you forget, we originated from the UK and spoke the King's English once upon a time.

Methinks we are the butchers of the King's English *wink

Thank you

I am pretty sure spork was just joking lol

I would say for your website stick to the US English version of center if you are attracting a global audience and nothing country specific. If you look at these stats of what countries have the most people online:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

You will see that the US far exceeds the UK.

Methinks spork dost use irony as a device of literature.




I've had to do this before, switching the little differences, that is...

organize vs. organise
color vs. colour
aluminum vs. aluminum...oh wait...that's just pronounced differently.

//No, wait that is spelled differently...(aluminium)

ok, schedule vs. schedule instead.