Translators’ Best Web Sites

Volume 14, No. 2
April 2010

Gabe Bokor

This section of the Translation Journal features the best Web sites by translators in the Editor's humble opinion. The sites are rated on a scale from 1 to 10 by the following criteria:

1. Informational content
2. Ease of navigation
3. Aesthetics
4. Web technique
5. Google Page Rank

Submissions for this section, including self-submissions, are welcome. Only sites of individual translators will be considered. Sites are listed and rated at the editor's discretion and by his admittedly subjective criteria.

Front Page

	Index 1997-2009
	TJ Interactive: Translation Journal Blog
	Translator Profiles
	Twenty Years of Steady Workload by Andrei Gerasimov
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant & Worker Bee
	Translators Around the World
	Where Can I Find a Chinese Sworn Translator in Rio de Janeiro? by Danilo Nogueira and Kelli Semolini
	Cultural Aspects of Translation
	Culture-Specific Items in Literary Translations by Sepideh Firoozkoohi
	Medical Translation
	How Many Varieties of Medical Practice Are There? by Rafael A. Rivera, M.D., FACP
	Science & Technology
	Translating a Patent: Translator's Templates by Kriemhild (Karen) Zerling
	Translators and the Computer
	Automatic Web Translators as Part of a Multilingual Question-Answering (QA) System: Translation of Questions by Lola García-Santiago and María-Dolores Olvera-Lobo
	The Efficacy of Round-trip Translation for MT Evaluation by Milam Aiken and Mina Park
	Arts & Entertainment
	Empirical Study of Subtitled Movies by Maria Bernschütz, Ph.D.
	Literary Translation
	La influencia de Voltaire en el primer Hamlet español Laura Campillo Arnaiz
	Translators' Education
	English Language Teaching Through the Translation Method (A Practical Approach to Teaching Mongolian CPAs) by Dr. Naveen K. Mehta
	Translators' Tools
	Pondering and Wondering by Jost Zetzsche
	Translators’ Emporium
	Caught in the Web
	Web Surfing for Fun and Profit by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
	Translators’ On-Line Resources by Gabe Bokor
	Translators’ Best Websites by Gabe Bokor
	Call for Papers and Editorial Policies

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/.

Eric Bullington's Web Site
http://www.clinicaltranslations.com/
A clean, attractive website. It is formatted as a blog, but contains information intended as permanent. The top bar has five links: Home, About, Contact, CV, and Expertise. The page also contains a link to Eric's Twitter page and to the translators' associations he belongs to. The Archives link (standard with blogs) is blank.

Informational content	9
Ease of navigation	10
Aesthetics	10
Web technique	9
Google Page Ranking	3

Giovanna Lester's Web Site
http://www.translanguage.net/
This bilingual (English - Portuguese) site provides basic information about its owner's qualifications and services offered. Tabs link to Profile, Clients, Services, Affiliations, and Request for Estimate. Links to the websites of professional associations to which Giovanna belongs are also provided.

Informational content	6
Ease of navigation	10
Aesthetics	7
Web technique	7
Google Page Ranking	2

Jonathan Hine's Site
http://www.scriptorservices.com/
A trilingual (English, French, Italian) site of Jonathan Hines and Hillary Hall. Only three links from the main page (Translations, Program Evaluations, Books from Scriptor Services), with additional links to Jonathan and Hillary's personal pages and further links from each of those pages.

Informational content	8
Ease of navigation	8
Aesthetics	6
Web technique	6
Google Page Ranking	3