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Retrieve the web page to translate |
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Open the English language page to translate in your web browser, and
save it on your disk using the same file name (more about file names
here).
 Example: When translating
http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/bev.html
into Spanish, store the page on your disk as bev.html (or bev.htm).
Practical hints
Your translation work may be completed faster if you store the page in a
matching directory (or folder) on your harddisk. Example: Store bev.html
on your C drive at c:\spanish\general\ .
If you use Internet Explorer to retrieve the web page you want to
translate, please read this!
Internet Explorer will usually suggest that you store the page as "Filetype:
Web page complete." The resulting page will have internal links and
image addresses that are different from the source, and must therefore be
corrected later.
To avoid this, select the setting "Web Page,
HTML only (*.htm, *,html)" when storing the web page on your
disk. Then, all included codes will remain intact.
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Open the page in a web authoring program |
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Open the page in a web authoring program, like Microsoft's FrontPage
Express, Netscape Composer, or AOLpress
(free download here). We
recommed that you use a WYSIWYG (What
You See
Is What
You Get) editor
like the ones we have mentioned here.
If you have Microsoft Frontpage, but don't know how to use it properly,
consider visiting
http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/.
Search for "Frontpage," and you will get a variety of tutorials for
free.
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| 3 |
Translate |
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Translate by simply overwriting the English text with your translation. |
| 4 |
Your language is written using special fonts |
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Many languages, like Spanish and Norwegian, do not require any special
handling of fonts. It is easy to use characters like ñ and
æ in web pages. If this is the case with your language, go to
the next item.
However, if your language uses fonts that differ much from the Latin scheme,
like Chinese or Arabic, then see the
Use of special
fonts guidelines about how to inform visitors about how to read such
texts.
If special fonts are used in your language, and you do not know how to handle
this, consult Odd de Presno. |
| 5 |
Add your name and email address |
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Add your name and email address at the bottom of the page as explained
here. |
| 6 |
Translate the web page's title |
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In FrontPage Express: Click File | Page
properties, and translate the General/Title: line.
Save .
In AOLpress, translate the text on the "Title:"
line on the top of the page. Save. |
| 7 |
Translate links |
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Hints are provided
here. |
| 8 |
Check if all anchors are present |
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Hints are provided here |
| 9 |
Check links |
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Hints are provided here |
