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Frequently Asked
Questions
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| Text |  How do I combine using
Windows spelling checker with Composer or another editor?
How to I make text html-encoded in Unicode
numbers? |
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| Images | How do I save images correctly
on my disk?
How do I solve
image problems?
When I save the page on my disk like you say, why can
I not see the images any more?
I made image links absolute like you said, but cannot see
all images. Why? |
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| Links | Should the hypertext links
be translated, too?
Should the links on the icons in the footer be
changed?
May
I include a link to my home page in the footer of my
translation? Links in translated web pages must
be relative. What does "relative" mean? |
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| Other |
How do I
recognize myself for my translation?
How can I find out if a web page is correctly saved
on my disk?
How do I translate
the page's TITLE and DESCRIPTION?
How do I translate the text in
forms?
How do I track changes
so that I can update my translation?
How
do I correct errors in my
translation?
How
do I find a list of pages to translate in my
language?
How
do I maintain my translation?
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| How
do I
save images correctly on my disk?
How can I find out if a web page is correctly saved on my disk? If links to images are stored correctly, it is a high probability that the page is stored correctly. This is how to check if the image links are correct:
In a web page, the hypertext links http://www.kidlink.org/index.html and /index.html both show Kidlink's top page. The first link the index.html page as stored at the www.kidlink.org server, while the second shows the page on any Kidlink (including www.kidlink.org). We call the first type of link absolute, and the second relative. The same applies for links to other types of Internet resources, like images and movies. Effect: When your translated web page correctly contains relative links to web pages and images, then clicking at this links locally will not give you access to the linked pages unless also these are stored on your local disk. Also, images will not display on your local version unless you have these images stored on your disk (in the directories demanded by the links). Solution: Keep hypertext and image links absolute until translation is completed so that you can see that they are correct. Before sending your translation to Kidlink, remove any references to http://www.kidlink.org in the document's source (html), except where the hypertext address is supposed to exist (like at the bottom of this page). FrontPage users will select the html tab, then set the program to search for http://www.kidlink.org and replace with nothing. When I save the page on my disk like you say, why can I not see the images any more?
<IMG HEIGHT="46" ALT="Change language" SRC="/img/logo-tiny.gif" WIDTH="45" ALIGN="Right"> tells your browser that the URL is /img/logo-tiny.gif. As it has no reference to http://www.kidlink.org, or any other computer, the browser will look for the image on the computer where the web page is stored. If it doesn't find it in a directory on this drive called /img/, it will be unable to show it. Hint: Many translators change image URLs to show images at http://www.kidlink.org before translating. Search the page's source for SRC="/ and replace all finds with SRC="http://www.kidlink.org/ It is relatively safe and easy for us to correct, so don't worry about forgetting to remove it before sending your translation. I made image links absolute like you said, but cannot see all images. Why? You have made image links absolute to be able to view images on your local screen as recommended. Still, some images do not show. The reason might be that the image has not been coded with the full path (address) to where it is stored on the remote computer. The reason for this may be that whoever made the web pages forgot, or was lazy that day). Make the path full, and you will see the image. Example: The relative URL (address, or path) to the image at the top of http://www.kidlink.org/english/career/index.html is /english/career/broker.jpg. As this image is stored in the same directory as the web page, it will also show if the URL is provided just as "broker.jpg" (sometimes it is). However, if you follow our hints about changing the URL so that you can view it on your computer, then the result in this case becomes: http://www.kidlink.org/broker.jpg which will show you nothing. Solution: If an image does not show, assume that it is stored in the directory where the source of the web page exists and use the same path. As the English language index.html page is stored at http://www.kidlink.org/english/career/, add the path in front of the file name to make it http://www.kidlink.org/english/career/broker.jpg. Should the hypertext links be translated, too? Let us explain using the link to English Home in the footer below. The html code of this specific link is <A HREF="/english/general/intro.html">English Home</A> The red boldfaced part is the web address of the linked page. The brown boldfaced part is the related link text. Do not translate the web address, except when a translated version of the linked page exists on our web. If a translation exists, correct the web address using the same file name (in this case, intro.html). Do translate the link text into the language of the web page. Example: You are translating into German ("Deutsch"). A translation of the English Home page is available at web address /deutsch/general/intro.html. The link text is translated into Blaue Elephanten. The html code of this specific links becomes <A HREF="/deutsch/general/intro.html">Blaue Elephanten</A> Should the links on the icons in the footer be changed? We use the term "footer" about the part of web pages below the colored line at the bottom of this and other pages. If pages linked to by any footer icons exist, correct the web addresses accordingly. Example:
May I include a link to my home page in the footer of my translation? Yes, you can. Example: "Translated by Jane Lawty". More" How do I combine using Windows spelling checker with Composer or another editor? Some other web editors, like FrontPage, may have a built in spell checker for your language. Otherwise, you try to paste the contents of your translation into Word or some other program with a built in checker. Note: Do NOT copy corrections made in Word back to your html page. Type the corrections in manually. Copying is dangerous (because of Word's use of hidden codes). How to I make text html-encoded in Unicode numbers? On Kidlink's top page, non-Latin characters are html-encoded using Unicode numbers. Example: 中. Using Unicode, we are able to display several language character sets on the same page. To get Unicode html codes for words in a non-Latin language using FrontPage, like Chinese, do as follows: Open a page that has been encoded in the language's character seg (gb2312 for Chinese), and save it as Western European character set. This will change all the html characters into Unicode. Kidlink Institute/Education services
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