Software
Video localization/translation: Best practices and tips for the source.
March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
When shooting and editing video that might potentially end up being translated, take into consideration some factors that will end up making the process a lot easier. 1. Popular tools: there are thousands of tools out there for video editing. Use one of the popular, professional ones! The vendors will have to know the tool and have a copy of it. It will be easier if you can edit your video in one of these, so when you pass the project files, it will be just a matter of click and open. These are some of the most popular video... [Read the full story]
Hardware
Website/HTML Pages for the iPhone and iTouch
July 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Tools: Dreamweaver 8. With all the fuss about Apple’s device, I decided that it was a good idea to have an iPhone/iTouch accessible site of my main site, djjc.com. I need it to look good in portrait or landscape mode. Let’s remember, the iPhone’s portrait resolution is 320 width by 356 height, and its landscape width is 980 pixels. 1. Let’s create a new page. File –> New –> Basic page –> HTML. The DTD can be left as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Click on Create. Now File –>... [Read the full story]
Audio
Video localization/translation: Best practices and tips for the source.
March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
When shooting and editing video that might potentially end up being translated, take into consideration some factors that will end up making the process a lot easier. 1. Popular tools: there are thousands of tools out there for video editing. Use one of the popular, professional ones! The vendors will have to know the tool and have a copy of it. It will be easier if you can edit your video in one of these, so when you pass the project files, it will be just a matter of click and open. These are some of the most popular video... [Read the full story]
Video
Video localization/translation: Best practices and tips for the source.
March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
When shooting and editing video that might potentially end up being translated, take into consideration some factors that will end up making the process a lot easier. 1. Popular tools: there are thousands of tools out there for video editing. Use one of the popular, professional ones! The vendors will have to know the tool and have a copy of it. It will be easier if you can edit your video in one of these, so when you pass the project files, it will be just a matter of click and open. These are some of the most popular video... [Read the full story]
Web Design
Free SEO: A real example for English and translated web sites.
March 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Search engine optimization can’t be guaranteed, and there are not 100%-proven set paths for succes, so if someone is promising “unreal” results, those promises are for sure just that: unreal. The reason behind its “uncertainty” when it comes to results, is mostly the different algorithms between search engines, the competing sites doing also SEO, so on and so forth. However, there are techniques that you can put in practice to make things better, and if all the stars align correctly, yes, you... [Read the full story]
Programming
Install PHP on Windows XP
October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
For those of you wanting to run/test PHP code on your own machine, or on a machine on your local network, this one is for you. First off, you would had to have installed the Internet Information Services (IIS). If you have not done so, please go here. 1. Let’s install PHP Version 5. Go here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v5. Dowload the file called PHP 5.2.6. installer. As of this writing, that was the latest stable version. It can be called different, but just make sure it is the installer. Run it. 2. Click on... [Read the full story]
Translation (Globalization and Localization)
Video localization/translation: Best practices and tips for the source.
When shooting and editing video that might potentially end up being translated, take into consideration some factors that will end up making the process a lot easier. 1. Popular... [Read more]
From Excel to Trados/Logoport
Tools: Excel, Trados/Logoport, Dreamweaver (or any other text editor with unicode support, and multi-line search and replace). Exporting from Excel to Trados or Logoport, if manual,... [Read more]
Standards
iPhone
Website/HTML Pages for the iPhone and iTouch
Tools: Dreamweaver 8. With all the fuss about Apple’s device, I decided that it was a good idea to have an iPhone/iTouch accessible site of my main site, djjc.com. I need... [Read more]
Featured Video
Online Training
With more than 625 courses, and over 66000 video tutorials, VTC is one of the leading online traning sites worldwide. Priced at U$30 per month, is a must... [Read more]