Web Design Made Simple For Language Professionals

The World Wide Web is an excellent way to get your message out and can be a useful tool to reach potential clients. If you have never created a Web page before or want to know how to best market yourself on the Web, you will find this information to be a valuable head-start. We introduce you to the process behind building a professional site to advertise your translation or interpreting services and offer you creative marketing ideas. A well-designed Web site may not bring you a lot of work directly, but it is your virtual business card. Make sure you present yourself in the best manner possible.

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About the Presenters

Anne Chemali is a French native speaker. She holds an engineering degree from France and has successfully completed language-related graduate courses for her master's degree at Kent State University. She has been working as an English>French translator for six years. She localizes clients' Web sites as part of her translation activities and designed www.frenchlink.com in 2001 to advertise her services. A perfect example of the fact that a Web site can always be improved, she is currently talking with graphic designers about improving her site.

Jill Sommer is the current president of the Northeast Ohio Translators Association. She received her Masters in German translation from Kent State University in 1995 and moved to Bonn, Germany a month later, where she worked as a freelance translator and Internet researcher. She started dabbling in Web design while working for an Internet service provider in Bonn in 1995. Her site has since undergone 2 major overhauls since its initial inception.

© Jill R. Sommer, November 2003. All Rights Reserved.
Updated: October 2004.