A few customers have recently asked me if they should host their multilingual sites locally for the market they are targeting, while others with locally hosted sites have asked me about the implications of moving to the cloud.
Reading between the lines, the premise of such questions tends to centre around SEO and so my post is somewhat more marketing-oriented than IT. All comments are welcome.
Highlights of Daniel Rajkumar’s presentation of the South African Airways website localisation case study delivered by Web-Translations at Internet World.
For more infomation about website localisation, or to obtain a copy of the slides from Daniel’s presentation, please email: sales[at]web-translations.co.uk.
Our blog has once again been nominated as one of the Top 100 language blogs – renamed this year as the “Top 100 Language Lovers” – in the Language Professionals category.
We are honoured to be part of this list for the 3rd year running – if you like reading our blog, please vote using the button below, or use this link.
Thanks for your support, we’ll let you know the results!
The seminar presentation given by Daniel Rajkumar last Monday at OpenCms Days was voted best in its showcase by delegates attending the event, which took place over 2 days in Köln.
Daniel’s presentation, entitled “Implementing OpenCms for eCommerce sites – South African Airways” gained 43% of the vote for best session in its showcase – see the full survey results here. At such a technically-focused event, this is a real accolade, and will encourage Web-Translations to take part in other similar events around the world.
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ABDN is working in partnership with UK Trade and Investment to host a seminar on International Trade in Leeds next week.
Date: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Leeds, 2 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4BZ (more…)
Footage of the Web-Translations stand at Internet World with comments from Sunita Persad and Cassandra Oliver.
Live Translation is now integrated with popular WordPress plugin qtranslate. qtranslate is a multilingual content management plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage multilingual versions of your blog and facilitates the translation process.
With the combination of Live Translation and qtranslate you can now choose to have your blog posts professionally translated in a matter of hours.
qtranslate comes with several key languages already configured, and is really user-friendly, making it the plugin of choice for many international bloggers.
For more information, contact sales[at]web-translations.co.uk.
Web-Translations is pleased to announce its partnership with Istanbul-based e-marketing company euro.message.
euro.message is one of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies, and the largest e-marketing service provider in Turkey. (more…)
Real-time online translation service Live Translation has a new improvement – you can also now upload files to get a free quote and buy your translation at any time of day or night.
The file upload feature can handle any common document file type: Word, PDF (with selectable text), txt file, Excel…
Your file will be returned to you in your chosen format, usually within just a few hours.
Register for a free account now and we’ll give you the first 50 words for free:
“Web-Translations offers the full range of services I need for producing our multilingual brochures, email campaigns and website copy, and at a competitive price, so I don’t need to shop around.
The staff are helpful and knowledgeable – our account manager was able to advise me on the best languages to choose for the countries we wanted to target, which was a great help.
All round, the service I get from them is outstanding. I’d definitely recommend Web-Translations.”
Emma Shailer, Head of International Marketing – UCreative (University for the Creative Arts)
