I have a client who wants their site, translated into several other languages other than english. I was wondering if there are any companies/ recommendations that people are aware of that do this sort of work?

Check out InterTran (http://www.intertran.net/)'s 'HumanTran' service.

Hi there,
For Spanish translations we use www.bessolutions.net
Excellent translations and good value

Any recomendations for translation services?

Originally posted by tekneeks
I have a client who wants their site, translated into several other languages other than english. I was wondering if there are any companies/ recommendations that people are aware of that do this sort of work?

Yep, we call it internationalization and localization. You must differentiate between dynamic content of your website and static labels, signs. First could be done manually and/or using some translation engines. The second is typically is defined in web sites as properties files(majority of J2EE/Java based websites).

Peter Kinev.

There are a few basic aspects of providing a website in several languages. The first is the translation of content into several languages, like the service I linked to earlier. Others are internationalization and localization services provided by a web developer or host to set up "content negotiation".

If you don't use content negotiation, you have a default language, for example English, that everyone will see. That page can have a list of other languages the site is available in. Content negotiation, whether done by Java Servlet, Apache, or other serves the page in the visitor's preferred language as defined in their browser, if available, before reverting to a default language.

Localization refers to how you're picking that default language, if the visitor's preference is unavailable or unspecified. If their IP range is in the USA, English is a good bet. If Mexico, Spanish -- and so on and so forth. This could be done on one server, but also can be accomplished with either a distributed DNS setup (like UltraDNS) or a content distribution network such as Akamai.

Does anyone have recommendations of companies that provide these services besides their own? I'm currently stumbling my way through the server-side issues, and it ain't easy.

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