There it is. Your shiny multilingual website which will lead your business to a huge success. You’ve done your research and chosen the right languages, placed the colourful flags on the top of the website and you’re waiting for the great results now. Well, it might well be that no results will appear at all […]
To follow the trend and reach more customers you decide to have your website translated into two or more languages. What could possibly go wrong? The benefits seem to be clear and the whole process quite straightforward. Yet, your new website versions fail to generate lots of buzz. The number of visitors and potential customers […]
Variables or placeholders are yet another important features in website translation. Depending on the website structure and subject matter the text may be brimmed with different variable types or contain just a few of them. Let’s have a look at variables in more depth and see how to deal with them while localising a website. […]
Once you know how to deal with non-standard error messages and button names, it’s time to have a look at character restrictions. They may reduce your possibilities and push your creativity to the limit, but that’s what makes them special and loveable. Let’s see how you can make your life easier when translating a website […]
First of all: Happy International Translation Day to all my colleagues! It’s a perfect time to continue with the next episode of How to Translate Websites. In this post let’s have a look at button names placed within menus or in the page content. View it online Buttons used on websites have a defined purpose and […]
This week I’d like to present you the results of many weeks of my work and invite you to check out the course “Website Localization for Beginners”. It has been published today and can serve as a clear introduction to website localization for translators. Why Website Localization for Beginners? Quite often when I review […]
So here it is. You’ve just finished translating and localising a website for your customer. The text viewed in your CAT tool seems to be flawless, with no mistranslations, typos or punctuation errors. The terminology is consistent, you‘ve used the provided TMs and even referred to similar websites in the target language. But before you […]
Translation of websites requires different skills than translation of a document in any format. It has many distinctive features that have to be taken into account in order to approach an online text in an appropriate way. Interactivity The use of hypertext and HTML is the main difference between document and website translation and the […]
Website translation and localisation is a complex process that requires attention to details, creativity and at least basic IT skills. To concentrate on the translatable text without having to deal with the code, you can use one of the tools developed for website translation. Apart from the most popular CAT-tools, such as Trados, memoQ or […]