Volume 15, No. 1
January 2011
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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/.
Fabio M. Said's Site
http://fidusinterpres.com/pttranslator/index.html
A professional-quality trilingual (English, Brazilian Portuguese, and German) website. Well-organized, with plenty of information about the translator, illustrated with discreet, non-obtrusive graphics. The link http://fidusinterpres.com/ leads to Fabio blog "Fidus Interpres," an also trilingual site with, among other things, a nice illustrated list of dictionaries and other translation-related books.
Informational content | 9 |
Ease of navigation | 10 |
Aesthetics | 10 |
Web technique | 8 |
Google Page Ranking | 3 |
Jill Sommer's Web Site
http://www.jill-sommer.com/index.html
This is another simple, but very attractive site. The only graphics is a bright sun in the site's header, which re-occurs on each page (hint to the meaning of Jill's last name in Germansummer?). Summary information on the services offered (translation and Internet research), an impressive list of testimonials, and links to Jill's two blogs: Musing from an Overworked Translator and Translation Scams, both highly recommended.
Informational content | 8 |
Ease of navigation | 10 |
Aesthetics | 10 |
Web technique | 7 |
Google Page Ranking | 3 |
Agnieszka Rytych-Foster's Site
http://www.rytych-foster.com/index.html
This site belongs to a translator with an unusual combination of languages: English, Polish, Russian, and Korean. It has a simple, clean layout, and navigation among its four pages is easy and straightforward. Some of the orange-colored text is difficult to read.
Informational content | 7 |
Ease of navigation | 10 |
Aesthetics | 9 |
Web technique | 8 |
Google Page Ranking | 0 |
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