Website translations

The internet makes it easy to reach foriegn markets but to sell abroad you need to speak the language.

Aplomb Translations offers two solutions to this challenge:

  • Translation and localization of all the text on your website
  • Multilingual website design, with or without a database. Optional with a database is an multilingual content management system, an efficient and economical option which allows translation and editing to take place online.

Aplomb also offers international search engine optimization services.

Localization:

Succesful multilingual websites are not merely translated. They are localised to a form that is linguistically and culturally appropriate for foreign markets. Your site needs to look, sound and feel right. Localization considerations include:

  • Colours and imagery
  • Customs regulations, sales taxes and shipping tarrifs
  • Display styles for currencies, 'phone numbers etc

Multilingual website design:

  • Websites designed for multiple languages must be flexible enough to accomodate text expansion: every language is bigger than English! Some languages require further flexibility to accomodate right to left or vertical text.
  • Pages need to correctly display multilingual characters. Increasing browser support for Unicode encoding makes this more straightforward. A single design can support multiple languages and countries (except the most obscure) without re-engineering.

Technology:

We can help choose the best internet technology for your site.

Small sites that will change little can use simple html. This is straightforward, cost effective, but also limiting.

For larger or frequently changing sites, Aplomb can offer an affordable multilingual content management system(CMS). This allows non-technical users to enter, edit and translate website content. A CMS can cut the time and costs of setting up a mulilingual website.

Key features of our multilingual CMS

  • Direct updating and translating of content on a live website
  • Simple to use: no coding or HTML knowledge required
  • Built-in text editor
  • Updatable images
  • Multiple users with different permissions
  • Secure
  • Optional extra modules - newletter manager, forums
  • Fully search engine friendly

Our CMS offers small to medium sized businesses the opportunity to speedily create and update multilingual websites that will perform in the search engines, an opportunity that does not readily exist elsewhere.

Aplomb also offers international search engine optimization.

Please contact or email us for further information.