Riccardo Schiaffino wrote:
Our company's web site took the most time in design and layout work. Since its content is essentially static (it is basically just a web brochure for our company), it only attracts a few visitors each day.
And that's exactly what I mean. If I wanted to have a website, surely it would be 'basically just a web brochure' for my services. I imagine potential clients are not interested in dynamic content on my website: they want to know what I do, at what rate, and how they can reach me. Static content, that takes time in design and layout work.
Viktoria Gimbe wrote:
A website is a business card, a resume and an initial means of impression all in one.
Then don't you think it would be wise to let a professional create that? Someone who knows how to create a professional looking website? There are quite a lot of translation agencies with a website that looks like it's been designed by one of their employees that had nothing else to do. My reaction: if they don't have the time or money to create a professional looking website (as you say: their business card, resume and initial means of impression), they probably don't invest in other important business aspects either. That doesn't have to be true, but many people are reluctant to find out.
Viktoria Gimbe wrote:
What I find hilarious is how people seem to think that translation and writing HTML code require the same level of qualification. How many successful web designers went to university to learn their trade? How many translators did the same?
This has nothing to do with qualification. It's about experience. Maybe you have a lot of experience creating websites, I don't know. It would take me days or weeks to create a website and it would still look horrible. My advice: if you've never done anything like that before, let an experienced person do the job.
Charlie Bavington wrote:
We're always moaning about cleaning up half-arsed amateur efforts at translation, or making something readable out of text run through babelfish, and here you are advocating what must be, for professional web designers, the equivalent bane of their lives.
Exactly my thoughts.
Charlie Bavington wrote:
Anyway, since it is all a piece of cake, could you possibly provide a link to your own website, please?
Perhaps the website I created at university shows that not all of us are brilliant web designers?
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