Best way to present translated website

[Raify]

A quickie for the PH computer massive:

I've been asked to translate a website for somone (into Spanish), what's the best way to send the finished product? They'll be using a Mac + Dreamweaver.

So far, I've copied all the text into Open Office's Writer, so I can do the translation. I was thinking I could present the finished article in some sort of HTML format that would make things easier. But I've no idea how, and don't have Dreamweaver...

Any bright ideas?

TIA,

[dern]

You may find that they are using software like Struts or ASP.NET in which case all the strings used in the website will be contained in property files which may look something like this...

HomePage.Greeting=Welcome to our site

...in which case you could simply ask them for this and using the complete webpage for context provide...

HomePage.Greeting=Ethethetheth, scorchio

However, if they just embedded the strings in the website pages as literals then you've got more work on your hands (or they have).

In short I'd ask them.

Regards,

Mark

[Raify]

Cheers.

Can you tell which way they're doing it by viewing the code?

[dern]

Raify said:

Cheers.

Can you tell which way they're doing it by viewing the code?

I don't think so I'm afraid as the asp.net or jsp (struts) pages will be translated into html on the server before it gets to the browser. The only way I can think of that you may be able to tell is if the last element of the url ends in something like mypage.jsp or mypage.aspx or something like that. For example this page is an asp page because the url (www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=95&t=317980&p=1) specified a page 'topic.asp'.

Unfortunately the page may not end like that and still be a jsp/asp page because of url translation and even if it is a jsp/aspx page then they may not be using that feature and have embedded the text as literal strings anyway.

Edited by dern on Wednesday 18th October 21:35

[Platinum]

dern said:

HomePage.Greeting=Ethethetheth, scorchio

[thepassenger]

Raify said:

A quickie for the PH computer massive:

I've been asked to translate a website for somone (into Spanish), what's the best way to send the finished product? They'll be using a Mac + Dreamweaver.

So far, I've copied all the text into Open Office's Writer, so I can do the translation. I was thinking I could present the finished article in some sort of HTML format that would make things easier. But I've no idea how, and don't have Dreamweaver...

Any bright ideas?

TIA,

It's not the neatest code generation but for syntax and content checking, OO.org can save as HTML. Slap that HTML file on a website and have them go visit the URL.

[SGirl]

thepassenger said:

[quote=Raify]A quickie for the PH computer massive:

I've been asked to translate a website for somone (into Spanish), what's the best way to send the finished product? They'll be using a Mac + Dreamweaver.

So far, I've copied all the text into Open Office's Writer, so I can do the translation. I was thinking I could present the finished article in some sort of HTML format that would make things easier. But I've no idea how, and don't have Dreamweaver...

Any bright ideas?

TIA,

Are you using Trados? If so, you should be able to convert the files into TagEditor format and then export them back into HTML format.

Failing that, just copy the page source into Notepad, translate the bits that need to be translated and then send them that.

There's one other option, which many translators go for. That is: print the website and just submit it in Word format. It's usually all that clients expect. They tend to be overjoyed if you return the translation in the same format as the original.

I spend half my life translating websites. By all means drop me a line by e-mail if you want to discuss specifics.

Edited by SGirl on Thursday 19th October 01:48