Hello to translators or interpreters dropping by after yesterday’s Chartered Institute of Linguists webinar on Building Websites for Translators. You might find the following posts particularly interesting:
- A 5-minute video on how I use WordPress for this blog, which demonstrates some different plugins to yesterday. Also, here is some more information about what’s running under the bonnet chez There’s Something About Translation.
- More 5-minute videos on how I use LinkedIn and Google Reader for professional purposes, and some more thoughts on how I fit all these tools together as part of the bigger picture of my professional practice.
- A half-hour presentation on social media for translators, which looks at Tweetdeck (co-presented with Philippa Hammond – check out her blog for a great guest post on search engine marketing (SEO) too).
- Finally, some information on staying safe online: keeping your data safe and ensuring your personal safety too.
WordPress is far from perfect (she says, weary after a week of WP woes) and there’s a lot about it that drives me crazy, so as with anything, do your research and be prepared to invest a lot of time into the process if you decide to go down that route. Some good alternatives include Drupal and Joomla, especially if your long-term plan includes community building on a grander scale, so be sure to check them out too. Happy building!
Hi Sarah,
Yes it does help!
Thanks a lot and good luck with the blogging and translation.
All the best,
Clément
Hello Sarah,
I participated in the webinar last week. Thank you for your presentation. It was very useful. I have an other question: how did you integrate both the English and Spanish versions to your website?
I know you talked about it during the webinar but I didn’t quite understand…
I hope you’ll have a moment to answer my question!
Thanks for your help and for the good work.
Clément
Hi Clément, thanks for dropping by. Very glad to hear you enjoyed the webinar. I used a WordPress plugin called WPML Multilingual to add the Spanish version of my site to http://www.sarahdillon.com (and more languages too, eventually). This plugin doesn’t translate the text, of course – I hired a fab Spanish translator to do that for me – but it does help with the site navigation side of things by allowing me to show both versions side by side, etc. Hope that helps! Sarah