Has anyone had a web-site translated into Chinese?

victorludorum

I'm looking at getting a page from a site translated into Chinese and was wondering if anyone had any previous experience of doing this? Is it a nightmare or a simple job? The page only contains about 300 words.

octatonic

Try these guys http://www.languageconnect.net
Company is owned by one of my wife's friends- not sure I can wrangle a discount though.

victorludorum

Cheers, i'll have a butcher's.

ESBlonde

I understand there are several 'chinese' languages so getting that bit defined might be the first step. That sorted you might find a chinese store or restuarant with fluent speakers that might enjoy some extra cash, but get it proof read by a third party before you publish. Like many things, if it contains 'business' or 'engineering' terms it can lead to confusion, remember all those old Chinese instructions for good sold here 20+ years ago?
For my part I can't help, I are still strugglin wiv english.

guitarfishbay

If it is for commercial use get a commercial translation firm to do it - if you don't understand the language yourself you'll never know if someone has done a good job or not, so best to go with a trusted service

victorludorum

I'm also wondering about the coding side of it as well. I wonder whether it's just simply a question of inserting the Chinese characters where the English text is and leaving the html/css in English, or whether the whole thing has to be done in Chinese. I imagine it's just a case of substituting the text.

Corvus

Tags can stay, I did one once. Have to check things fit in their allocated spaces so might need to adjust the css. I had css per language. The site was PHP so the content was in separate files, got included per language the user chose.

victorludorum

Corvus said:

Tags can stay, I did one once. Have to check things fit in their allocated spaces so might need to adjust the css. I had css per language. The site was PHP so the content was in separate files, got included per language the user chose.

Cheers for that, I appreciate it :-)