http://blog.web-translations.com Thoughts, comments & information relating to languages, technology and the web Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:26:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://blog.web-translations.com/wp-content/themes/webtrans_v3/images/button.gifhttp://blog.web-translations.comDescription of your blog. http://blog.web-translations.com/3-steps-to-a-successful-multilingual-website/ http://blog.web-translations.com/3-steps-to-a-successful-multilingual-website/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:38:00 +0000 Cass http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=2047 http://blog.web-translations.com/3-steps-to-a-successful-multilingual-website/feed/ We’re combining our 3 lead web services to help your website launch in international markets with a bang. All good things come in threes - that’s certainly true when it comes to launching your website in a new language and country. Follow these 3 key steps to start seeing results from your website: Step 1: Brand Research [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/french-domains-fr-to-become-available-to-eu-businesses/ http://blog.web-translations.com/french-domains-fr-to-become-available-to-eu-businesses/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:32:37 +0000 Cass http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1994 http://blog.web-translations.com/french-domains-fr-to-become-available-to-eu-businesses/feed/ As of the 6th December, AFNIC - (manager of the registry of .fr domain names) will lift restrictions on the availability of the .fr domain (among others) to European businesses. If you don’t already have a French website for putting this domain to use, there has never been a better time… Historically the eligibility criteria for .fr domains [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/siri-for-the-apple-iphone-4s-talking-out-of-a-japanese-butt/ http://blog.web-translations.com/siri-for-the-apple-iphone-4s-talking-out-of-a-japanese-butt/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:28 +0000 Cass http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1986 http://blog.web-translations.com/siri-for-the-apple-iphone-4s-talking-out-of-a-japanese-butt/feed/ The launch of Siri, the “Intelligent Personal Assistant” for the iPhone 4S, has been greeted with all the hype you’d expect from Apple’s latest development. What is more surprising is the faux pas that Apple has managed to commit in naming this new app. “Siri” sounds similar to the Japanese word for buttocks (”shiri”), perhaps this [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/domain-names-are-going-global/ http://blog.web-translations.com/domain-names-are-going-global/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:46:26 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1887 http://blog.web-translations.com/domain-names-are-going-global/feed/ Until last year, domain names could only be created using Latin characters a-z and numbers 1-9. This excluded accented characters and scripts such as Arabic, Chinese and Korean. In 2010, the use of non-Latin scripts in domain names was enabled, limited at first to the use of the country’s name in the official language. Just how [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/us-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-google/ http://blog.web-translations.com/us-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-google/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:50:45 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1895 http://blog.web-translations.com/us-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-google/feed/ Following on from our recent post discussing Google’s popularity, concerns have recently been raised about just how Google maintains such a high number of users, and the legitimacy of their methods.  At the end of last month, the US Federal Trade Commission notified Google that they would be conducting a “wide-range investigation”. Part of the focus of the [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/1-billion-people-use-google-in-1-month/ http://blog.web-translations.com/1-billion-people-use-google-in-1-month/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:36:22 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1889 http://blog.web-translations.com/1-billion-people-use-google-in-1-month/feed/ Recent reports have stated that in the month of May, Google sites, including its search engine, Gmail and Youtube (which it acquired back in 2006), had 1 billion unique visitors in total.  Having previously discussed the competition each search engine site faces to be the most popular and most-used, the figures distributed by ComScore, a [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/case-study-crystal-bridal-accessories/ http://blog.web-translations.com/case-study-crystal-bridal-accessories/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:40:29 +0000 Cass http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1876 http://blog.web-translations.com/case-study-crystal-bridal-accessories/feed/ New German site launched! We met Amy Karim at the Internet Retailing Expo in March, where we spoke to her about expanding her online bridal accessories business internationally. She’d already decided to target Germany as a new market, and so our International Blast service was the ideal solution to get her started. International Blast involves localising key [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/google-to-introduce-new-instant-pages-feature/ http://blog.web-translations.com/google-to-introduce-new-instant-pages-feature/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:30:48 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1866 http://blog.web-translations.com/google-to-introduce-new-instant-pages-feature/feed/ We regularly use the term “to google”, using it as a verb to replace “to search for online” and the vast majority of people understand what it means. However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we will use the search engine Google, we may use another - Bing or Yahoo for example. In fact, according to [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/how-important-is-it-to-translate-a-website/ http://blog.web-translations.com/how-important-is-it-to-translate-a-website/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:55:50 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1847 http://blog.web-translations.com/how-important-is-it-to-translate-a-website/feed/ In a recent poll, 90% of internet users in Europe would visit a site in their own language when given the choice. Meanwhile, 53% would still use a site if it was in English rather than their native language. However, despite this relatively high figure, these users would not necessarily be happy about the lack [...] http://blog.web-translations.com/translation-and-tourism/ http://blog.web-translations.com/translation-and-tourism/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:55:32 +0000 Eleanor http://blog.web-translations.com/?p=1832 http://blog.web-translations.com/translation-and-tourism/feed/ Looking at facts and figures relating to tourism in the United Kingdom can give us an insight into why people visit the country, what they look forward to the most, and why they would return.  This is very important in the world of translation, in order to offer services to industries that would benefit the [...]