Multilingual Web Sites

The World Wide Web makes it possible for anyone, anywhere in the world, to meet and interact with your organization. The Internet can create relationships that transcend geographic boundaries. Agnew can help you transcend the linguistic and cultural boundaries between you and your international business partners with our comprehensive Website Services.

Website Localization

True website localization goes far beyond language translation. The interactive nature of the website requires a comprehensive and coherent design which addresses technical challenges of presentation in other languages and cultural expectations of the target audience.

Among the technical issues we address are:

• String length variation among languages and  effects on screen design
• Character encoding standards  (especially for Asian languages)
• Font characteristics for readability and style
• Search and sorting algorithms for other languages

Culturally, text and graphical content are tailored for the target culture using:

• Textual content that is both accurate and culturally appropriate for the target audience
• Graphic images that are meaningful in the target culture
• Culturally appropriate presentation styles

Agnew blends all of these essential components into an effective forum for interacting with your international target audience. To reduce implementation time, and improve accuracy, we also use the latest computer-assisted translation tools, including string extraction and reinsertion utilities and translation memory.

Agnew has put together a suite of website services that make sense for companies in the international marketplace. These services represent a technological extension of our proven expertise in the fields of foreign language translation, software localization and multimedia.