Volume 9, No. 4
October 2005
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Front Page
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Translators Best Web Sites |
About Google's Page Ranking (PR) Index: Google ranks all web pages on a scale from 0 to 10 according to the number of links that lead to that page and the importance of the referring pages. A low PR number does not reflect the quality of the page, but may tell the owner that it needs more marketing effort to make the page more "popular." You can check the PR of your, or any other, web page at http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php, for example. For an explanation of Google's PageRank technology, see http://www.google.com/technology/.
Andy Walker's Japanese Link Site
http://www.jlink.co.uk/
A professionally designed site. Instead of a lot of hype about the owner, this sites provides useful information about translation, interpretation, the Japanese language, and even a box for free machine translation.
Informational content | 10 |
Ease of navigation | 9 |
Aesthetics | 9 |
Web technique | 8 |
Speed of loading | 10 |
Google Page Ranking | 4 |
Anne-Barkley Mulder's Site
http://barkleytranslations.com/
A clean, attractive site in English and Dutch, which provides the basic information about its owner in few words and little superfluous decoration. While (to my taste) she could place more emphasis on her skill and less on the tool (Trados) she works with, the site conveys the impression of a serious, non-nonsense professional.
Informational content | 9 |
Ease of navigation | 10 |
Aesthetics | 9 |
Web technique | 8 |
Speed of loading | 10 |
Google Page Ranking | 0 |
Spiros Doikas's Site
http://www.translatum.gr/
This site, which labels itself "The Greek Translation Vortal" (whatever this means), has a lot of useful and interesting informationif you can find it. Unfortunately, the material of the site seems to be scattered over a lot of sometimes huge pages without a unifying criterion for locating it. The home page extends over 4 printed pages, and the owner's CV (I challenge you to find it) over 9 printed pages.
Informational content | 10 |
Ease of navigation | 5 |
Aesthetics | 8 |
Web technique | 8 |
Speed of loading | 9 |
Google Page Ranking | 5 |
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