Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies

WHERE VENDORS FIT IN

Rarely does a company manage an entire localization project in house. At the least, a company hires freelance translators and editors to manage text translation. At the most, a company hires a localization firm to manage the entire project from start to finish, as well as ongoing maintenance.

This book makes frequent use of the terms “client” and “vendor.” For our purposes, the client is the company that’s localizing its web site. Although a localization or translation firm often functions like a client when it hires translators and editors, it’s considered a vendor. A vendor can be a translation firm, a localization firm, a translator, an editor, or all of the above. One of the harder decisions to make during ...