Translators’ Best Web Sites

Volume 15, No. 4
October 2011

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.

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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/.

Paula Gordon's Site
http://www.dbaplanb.com/frame.html
A fairly complete site virtually without graphics (except for Paula's logo), with some pages still under construction. Sections include Translation, Copy Editing Projects, Usluge (Services in Bosnian, section under construction), Paralegal Services, Writing Samples, Request a Quote, Testimonials, Resources, Contact, About, Pivacy. The front page links to Paula's Blog (http://dbaplanb.wordpress.com/, intended as a FAQ for the website.

Informational content	9
Ease of navigation	8
Aesthetics	7
Web technique	8
Google Page Ranking	3

Helen Eby's Web Site
http://www.gauchatranslations.com/
A very attractive bilingual (Spanish and English) site. The individual sections are: Specialties (Medical, Business, Nautical, and Education), The Process, About, Good Words (Testimonials), Contact. A separate button allows the reader to toggle between the Spanish and English versions, except that the Testimonial section is not repeated in the Spanish version.

Informational content	8
Ease of navigation	9
Aesthetics	9
Web technique	7
Google Page Ranking	0 (new site)

Andrei Gerasimov's Site
http://www.eng2rus.ru/
An aesthetically pleasing bilingual English/Russian site, where you select the desired language from the home page. The sections are: Testimonials, Statistics, Samples, Literary Translations (an impressive list of 56 items), Resume, Credentials (facsimiles of diplomas and other documents).

Informational content	8
Ease of navigation	9
Aesthetics	9
Web technique	8
Google Page Ranking	3