Volume 14, No. 4
October 2010
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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/.
Jaime Aguirre's Site
http://www.spintra.com/
A bilingual (English & Spanish) site. The home page has more text that most Internet users are willing to read, and it could use shorter and simpler sentences ("Their goals have materialized by positively impacting their respectively engaged Latin American markets, increased revenue margins and morale by implementing new training and safety programs for their employees") and some editing of the English ("non-compromised quality"). In addition to translation services, the site also offers a bilingual dictionary in 8 different formats for different PDAs.
Informational content | 8 |
Ease of navigation | 9 |
Aesthetics | 9 |
Web technique | 7 |
Google Page Ranking | 4 |
Doug Robinson's Web Site
http://home.olemiss.edu/~djr/index.html
A good-looking and informative site of a polyglot writer, teacher, and translator. White (actually discreetly patterned light-gray) spaces are used to maximum effect. Clutter on individual pages is avoided at the cost of several clicks being needed for accessing information.
Informational content | 8 |
Ease of navigation | 10 |
Aesthetics | 10 |
Web technique | 8 |
Google Page Ranking | 4 |
Jost Zetzsche's Site
http://www.internationalwriters.com/index.html
Jost Zetzsche, a well-known expert in computerized tools for the translation industry, does business under the name "International Writers' Group, LLC." His site is a good example of simple, "minimalist" design with key words ("writing," "editing services," "English-to-German translation") leading to more detailes descriptions of those services. The page also has graphic links to Jost's book "The Translator's Tool Box" and his biweekly newsletter "Tool Kit."
Informational content | 9 |
Ease of navigation | 9 |
Aesthetics | 10 |
Web technique | 8 |
Google Page Ranking | 4 |
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