Multilingual Websites

Although English is the lingua franca of global business, we live in a world in which many languages are spoken: the European Union alone currently supports 23 official languages and non-English speakers will represent around 80% of all Internet users by 2010.

In our globalized world, most people not only search the Internet in their native language, but also prefer to be addressed in their own language when purchasing products or services.

In order to reach the new markets offered by the Internet, companies of all sizes can obtain greater exposure for their products and/or services through multilingual websites containing language-specific versions of their content.

Web globalization is not just for large companies any more. Although your company may have yet to design an international expansion strategy, you may still benefit from the advantages offered by a multilingual website: the disappearance of trade borders within the European Union alone has led to the creation of large communities speaking "foreign" languages in all European countries.

Multilingual Website Service

Dixon Servicios Lingüísticos, SL, provides a multilingual website creation service designed to overcome what is generally regarded as the main challenge faced when placing multilingual content on-line: time.

Working in close collaboration with our clients, our multilingual website creation team covers all the creative and technical aspects related to the creation of your multilingual website:

Website Design

• The design and creation of lightweight, optimised HTML pages in which to insert the client’s content. We offer websites in HTML for three, excellent reasons:

1. Although more than half of all US Internet users have access to broadband, in many countries less than 10% of users have access to this service. This is why you need to consider lightweight website pages for these countries.
2. Search engines, such as Google, “read” content in order to classify and rank websites in their indexes. As opposed to other formats, such as Flash and many CMS’, HTML offers easy access to search engines, thus increasing a website’s possibilities of obtaining an optimum ranking. Remember, no matter how “well-designed” a website is, if it does not obtain a good ranking it will receive very few visits.
3. By working in HTML, we are able to rapidly produce translated versions of the website’s pages, thus considerably reducing both the time spent on reformatting and reprogramming translated texts and the consequent possibility of errors occurring. [+ Read more about the Translation Process]

Multilingual Website Translation

• The translation of the website’s pages in to as many languages as required.

Multilingual Website Optimization

• The individual optimization of each of the pages that make up the website’s different language versions in order to improve search engine performance.

Multilingual Website Domain Registration

• International domains: .com, .net, .org, .name, .info, .tv, etc., with DNS service.

• Spanish and European domains: .eu and .es with DNS service.

• Language-specific domain registration: by registering the individual language versions of your website in language specific domains (e.g., www.myveryowncompany.eu, www.mipropiaempresa.eu, etc.), it is both easier for local search engines to find your website’s content and easier for local users to access your content in their own language without having to navigate from the generic site.

Multilingual Website Hosting

• Our hosting service includes the contracting of secure, stable hosting for your entire multilingual website content.

BASIC Hosting

• Hosting for 1 domain
• 10 MB of hard disk space
• 1 GB of monthly traffic
• 1 FTP access account
• 3 e-mail accounts (100 MB each account) and 10 mail redirections

BASIC PROFESSIONAL Hosting

• Hosting for 1 domain
• 50 MB of hard disk space
• 2 GB of monthly traffic
• 1 FTP access account
• Support for PHP and MySQL databases
• 5 e-mail accounts (100 MB each account) and 50 mail redirections

CORPORATE E-MAIL Service

• Hosting for 1 domain
• 2 GB of monthly traffic
• 10 e-mail accounts (100 MB each account)
• 100 mail redirections (single or multiple)

CORPORATE Hosting

• Hosting for up to 3 domains
• 120 MB of hard disk space
• 5 GB of monthly web traffic
• 3 FTP access accounts (one per each hosted domain)
• 10 e-mail accounts (100 MB each account) and 100 mail redirections
• Support for PHP and MySQL/PostGreSQL databases
• Detailed access statistics

Multilingual Website Maintenance

• By working on your multilingual website from the very beginning, we are in an ideal position to assist you with the future updating and modification of all your multilingual website’s language versions.

The advantages of creating a multilingual website with Dixon

1. All stages in the multilingual website creation process – design, translation, optimisation, hosting, and domain registration – are handled by Dixon, thus reducing considerably the time invested.
2. Our extensive experience in the translation sector guarantees both the highest quality translations and the maximum, language-specific optimisation of all your multilingual website’s pages, ensuring the maximum number of visitors to your new website.
3. The translation technology that we employ in all our translation projects greatly facilitates subsequent maintenance tasks –reducing both the time and cost involved – whilst minimising the possibility of eventual errors. [+ Read more about Translation Technology]

Feel free to contact us by phone or email to discuss your multilingual website requirements.

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