Website localisation is a comprehensive process beyond simple translation, adapting a website for a specific target audience's language and cultural context to ensure relevance, usability, and effectiveness in engaging that audience.
We help businesses and organisations effectively reach and engage with global audiences, ensuring that their websites are not only accessible but also culturally resonant and legally compliant in different markets.
- Language Translation:
Our translators, who are native speakers and understand the target audience's cultural nuances, translate a website's textual content into multiple languages.
- Cultural Adaptation:
We adjust content, images, colours, and design elements to align with the cultural preferences and sensitivities of the target market. This may include changing examples, metaphors, and idioms to be culturally relevant and respectful.
- Local Compliance and Regulation Checks:
We ensure the website meets local legal requirements, such as privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms of service that comply with the target country's regulations.
- SEO Localization:
We optimise website content for local search engines, including keyword research in the target language, optimising meta tags and descriptions, and ensuring URL structures are friendly to local search engines.
- UI/UX Localization:
Adapting the user interface and user experience design to meet the target audience's expectations. This could involve navigation, layout, and interaction design changes to ensure the site is intuitive and user-friendly for all users.
- Multimedia Localization:
Translating and localising multimedia content such as images, videos, and infographics. This includes subtitling or dubbing videos, adjusting graphic content to be culturally appropriate, and ensuring any text in images is translated.
- Currency and Payment Localization:
Integrating local currency support, adjusting pricing formats, and incorporating the target market's preferred payment methods to facilitate easy transactions.
- Date and Time Format Adjustments:
Adapting date, time, and measurement units to local standards to avoid confusion and enhance user experience.
- Technical Localization:
Ensuring that the website's back-end, such as code and scripts, supports local languages correctly, especially languages that require a right-to-left script (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew) or unique character sets.
- Localization Testing:
Thoroughly testing the localised website, including functionality, usability, and linguistic accuracy tests, to ensure the site performs well across different devices, browsers, and operating systems used in the target market.
- Content Management System (CMS) Integration:
Integrating multilingual capabilities into the existing CMS to allow for efficient management of content in multiple languages, including the ability to update and publish content simultaneously across different language versions.
- Continuous Localization Support:
Providing ongoing support for websites that require frequent updates, including new content translation, seasonal adjustments, and regular reviews to ensure the localised content remains accurate and relevant.
- Consultation and Strategy Development:
Offering expert advice on best practices for website localisation, including market research, cultural consultation, and developing a comprehensive localisation strategy that aligns with the brand's global goals.