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| |  | | | Challenges in building and maintaining multilingual web sites | | | | | |
| Challenges in building and maintaining multilingual web solutions |
| Building, managing and maintaining multilingual web sites introduces new problems and challenges to webmasters, content managers, and IT departments. Language translation is just one of the challenges but not the major one. |
| 1. A single solution for all languages vs multiple web sites |
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The traditional method of building multilingual websites is to build a separate website or a separate website branch for each language. This approach drives development expenses up and makes maintenance and management a real challenge. It also makes content management in multiple languages exponentially more difficult and a practically unsustainable task. Even minor changes to the website navigation or to the content result in significant efforts and expense. As a result, most traditionally developed multilingual websites’ layout and content look differently for each language. Switching between languages in a traditionally designed multilingual web site normally results in the users losing their position on the web site that results in a lot of user frustration. Even if such duplicative websites are initially in synch, their content start significantly deviate with time as the website goes through its evolution. |
Paramon Technologies’ Language Neutral Platform offers a single solution for all languages. With this solution, a website can be built just once for any chosen language. Adding new languages to the website is an easy task that does not require any programming. The number of languages is practically unlimited and depends only on the number of languages supported by the operating system on the server. The Language Neutral Platform allows the addition of new languages by just a button click. With Paramon Technologies’ multilingual web solutions, users can easily switch between languages and preserve their work position on the website. |
| Paramon Technologies’ single solution for all languages ensures much higher quality and significant savings in building and maintaining multilingual websites. A multilingual website can be built at roughly the expenses of building a single language web site. |
| 2. Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Content Management |
| Content Management has always been a challenging problem for web sites: how to create meaningful content, how to identify and remove outdated content, and how to add new content to the web site with an acceptable effort. Keeping outdated or unimportant content on the web site undermines the value of the website and often causes users to waste their time in finding truly important and relevant content. This is a generic problem of most web sites. |
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All the above problems become critical for multilingual web sites. Providing and managing multilingual content adds another dimension of complexity to the already complex problem of content management. Special tools and business processes must be developed for managing multilingual content to improve quality and reduce the associated labor. |
| Paramon Technologies’ multilingual and cross-lingual content management solves this problem. With the Paramon Technologies’ multilingual and cross-lingual content management, content in different languages can be viewed and edited, side-by-side, on the same screen, thereby enabling content administrators to be in complete control over their international and domestic content. Machine translation saves time for making translation drafts. Paramon Technologies’ automated processes assure that no changes in the content or outdated content are left unnoticed by any affected language content administrator. |
| 3. Encoding problem |
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| Traditional single byte encoding does not have sufficient capacity for multiple alphabets. Thus, most multilingual web sites will eventually face large encoding problems as the number of languages on the web site grows. |
| Paramon Technologies use of double byte UNICODE encoding eliminates this problem. |
| To build and maintain multilingual web sites, content must be translated into the appropriate language(s). Manual translation can be expensive and labor consuming. On the other hand, current automatic machine translation technology is not perfect. |
| 4. Content translation |
| To solve this problem, Paramon Technologies offers a state-of-the-art technology that takes the best from each method utilizing multiple translation engines. An intelligent, self-learning control system makes an automatic decision on which of the translation engines determine the best fit for every language pair and subject. Translation memories and self-learning capabilities of the Paramon Technologies’ translation control system provide translation improvement from experience. However, human editing is recommended for getting the best translation results for persistent content. With the work flow and processes provided by Paramon Technologies’ translation control, labor consumption and translation costs are significantly reduced while maintaining a consistently high translation quality. |
| 5. Details are important |
| These challenges are the most important among a variety of other challenges that must be considered when building, managing and maintaining multilingual web sites. Paramon Technologies offers a unique suite of software products along with the optimal processes and workflow to assure the best quality of multilingual web solutions with fewer expenses. Details are very important in such complex systems and all details must be thoroughly addressed. |
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