Website localization, although at first glimpse it looks more or less a language translation job, but in fact it is much more than that. It involves tons of IT techniques. For the simplest website localization project, as an example, you have to be familiar with at least the html codes, if the entire site is based upon static pages in html alone. And if you deploy sophisticated technologies such as dynamic pages with JavaScript, or database driven sites written in PHP or Java or ASP, then you are dealing with a complicated IT project, much less a language project.
Nowadays, multimedia, online communications and other interactive functions are commonplace in many websites, and localzation and globalization of this type of websites are more challenging, apart from their linguistic nature. The realtime language translation for these websites involve lots of web technologies and Internet resources. |
