Website translation and localization services

All translations at Alconost are performed by professional translators who are native speakers. You can learn more about our internal approach to obtaining class-leading translation quality here.

Most translators at Alconost specialize in IT, but hi-tech is not our only area of expertise.

We pick translators with extensive experience in the relevant subject area and review their specific training and professional background when assembling a team to work on a highly specialized project.

This way, Alconost is able to provide accurate translations of diverse projects, ranging from promo websites, landing pages for travel and other agencies, online stores, to corporate websites for multinational companies.

We’re also fluent in various design languages, technologies and platforms out there. We can translate a Wix or a WordPress site, or set up continuous website content translation for your Magento, Shopify, Salesforce and other eCommerce projects with ease.

Our website translators use glossaries (special terminological dictionaries) in order to ensure that the concepts and ideas that appear frequently on your website are translated consistently. Even if your site is not devoted to a specialized area, a glossary will still be useful for ensuring that each option, product or service is referred to using the same terms on all pages.

For larger projects, we usually work with one of our pre-existing glossaries. If there is no glossary, we can create one from scratch.

During the localization of major resources, translators sometimes run into repeating segments. These can be individual sentences or entire paragraphs. Translators can use CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tools in order to avoid having to duplicate effort by translating the same segments twice.

These tools examine the text for duplicates and offer to supply the same translation for the repeating segment that was entered in the past. CAT tools accelerate the process of translating a website, saving you money and reducing website translation cost.

Our project localization manager will help you design the whole translation process so that translations can be automatically added and updated as you edit existing content or add new content to the main language version of your website (i.e., continuous localization). This way, localization and web development will go in parallel.

One of our managers can help you to choose the best approach for localizing your website: translation of the actual HTML or other files, or translation performed within your CMS or on a cloud-based website localization platform. The method you go with will determine how you will receive your translated content:

• If you provide texts as formatted files (HTML or other formats), you will receive the translated texts back in the same format.
• If you give us access to your CMS, our translators will work online directly within the content management system on your website.
• If we localize your website using a project management platform (GitLocalize, Phrase, Lokalise, Memsource, Memoq, Smartcat, Webtranslateit, Transifex, OneSky, POEditor, Trados, or similar service), then the finished translations will be available on this platform. They can then be published on your website manually or automatically through an API. Translation using this sort of platform is ideal for multilingual or frequently updated sites that require continuous localization.

If you have not yet chosen a localization management platform, we recommend Crowdin. You can learn more about how to work with this platform here.

To automate website translation within your CMS, we work with professional translation APIs

We also have our own human translation API, Nitro, where translations are performed by professional linguists within 24 hours and you pay as you go. There is no lengthy order placement and billing. On top of that, you can access the Nitro platform to discuss the context with our translators directly. As easy as that!

On demand, we can work with other translation and localization APIs at the client’s choice

An editor can be hired to proofread the localized version of your website in order to ensure a perfect translation. The editor, like the translator, will be a native speaker of the target language.

The editor will proofread the translation, checking it against all rules of spelling, punctuation, and style in the target language. Holding off on proofreading may make sense if your down-stream budget will be more roomy and amenable, but we always recommend doing it as a finishing polish on a professional site!

With Alconost, you can translate your website into more than 100 different languages. However, if you cannot find your desired language in our list of languages, please contact us. We will find and test native speaker translators to localize your website. We do not charge clients for this translator recruitment and testing service.

Translators that we find with suitable qualifications will undergo several stages of testing. In particular, the applicant's test translations will be reviewed by other native speakers of the language. Only translators who have so demonstrated their expertise will be allowed to work on your order.

Please fill out a quote request form for translation into your desired target language as soon as possible so that we will have enough time to recruit a translator in the rare language you’re looking for, test him or her, and deliver your order.

We can perform professional linguistic testing for your website. Our linguists with testing experience will check the localization language in context and also report UI and functionality bugs.

We can also help create a website localization test case and define the scope of linguistic testing activities.

Learn more about our localization testing services or request a quote.

The first step is to place a preliminary order for localization.

Please include the following information in your order:

1. The languages into which you need to translate your website.
2. If possible, the texts themselves that need to be translated. You can attach files in HTML, PHP, XML, JavaScript, YML, YAML, or JSON formats. Instead of sending the files themselves, you can also send links to the pages to be translated, or you can provide us with login credentials to your CMS and tell us the sections that need to be translated.
3. The desired deadline for the project, if you have a strict deadline.

After we receive an application for your project, we will immediately assign a responsible manager who will:

• study the texts, your requirements, and any notes about the translation,
• calculate the cost of the website localization project and approve a budget with you,
• select translators with the required background,
• ensure the correct formatting of the finished translations,
• monitor compliance with the deadlines for completing the project,
• hire editors for the project to proofread the translations (optional),
• draft all required documentation (agreement, invoice, and certificate),
• answer your questions and do everything to ensure that you are satisfied with both the localization process and the result.

The cost of website translation depends on the language pair (the source and target languages), the amount of text, and the number of repetitions.

The cost also reflects the website localization method. For example, it is a little more costly to translate within your CMS than to translate or localize files through a cloud-based website translation platform. On the other hand, you save time and effort updating the website copy.

The cost of localization is calculated on the basis of a rate per one thousand characters including spaces. When calculating the amount of text to be translated, we do not include HTML element tags.

So that we can calculate the cost of localizing your website, please request a quote with the target languages that you would like to localize your website into.