Translators’ Best Web Sites

Volume 17, No. 2
April 2013

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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	Index 1997-2013
	TJ Interactive: Translation Journal Blog
	Translator Profiles
	Have Language, Will Travel by Robert Ewing Finnegan
	The Profession
	The Bottom Line by Fire Ant and Worker Bee
	Networking 101 byDanilo Nogueira and Kelli Semolini
	Translation—an ageless profession by Katia Spanakaki
	Translators and the Computer
	The Ukrainian Cornucopia of Tools by Jost Zetzsche
	Medical Translation
	La historieta como instrumento para la divulgación médico-sanitaria: Aspectos pragmalingüísticos Blanca Mayor Serrano
	Translation and Politics
	Trauma and Translation: Bearing Witness by Fatima Sakarya and Sidney Shaievitz
	Soviet Censorship and Translation in Contemporary Ukraine and Russia by Nataliya M. Rudnytska, PhD
	Arts and Entertainment
	When Correct Grammar is Wrong-ish—Grammaticality, Ungrammaticality, and Usage-based Theory in Film Subtitles by D. Bannon
	Science and Technology
	A Glossary of Olive Oil Taste Testing (Spanish-English and English-Spanish) by Soledad Sta. María
	Translator Education
	How Approaches of Teaching English Can Be Used for Teaching Translation? by Omid Jafari
	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
	Translators' Tools
	Translators’ Emporium
	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/.

Ann Sherwin's Site
http://asherwin.com/
A simple site in good taste. Links from the home page lead to About, Services, Resume, Samples, and Contact. Not much verbiage, but concise, matter-of fact information.

Informational content	8
Ease of navigation	10
Aesthetics	9
Web technique	8
Google Page Ranking	4

Grace Leonard's Web Site
http://www.allwordsgerman.com/
A website of minimalist design (no graphics whatsoever), but plenty of useful information. An impressive list of patents translated, work done in the life sciences, and information about the U.S. translation industry in general.

Informational content	9
Ease of navigation	10
Aesthetics	7
Web technique	7
Google Page Ranking	0

Srinata Hummel's Site
http://www.thaitranslator.net/
Another concise, but attractive site. The only graphic element is a postage-stemp-like picture of a Thai landscape. Links take you from the home page to Services, Specializations, and Contact.

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