1. Before translating your first page, read this!
   Read our note for new translators. Then, save the first page to translate as explained in 2 below. Mail us the page you saved on your disk (before translating anything), so that we can see that it has been saved correctly. Continue from 3 below when we have given our go ahead.

   If the page to translate is called index.html, check with us if special guidelines exist for translation of its contents. Some index.html page translations are to be reduced in scope. Example: Guidelines for translating /english/general/index.html

2. Save the page to translate on your local disk
   1. Open in Internet Explorer the page you want to translate (for example, http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/intro.html).
      Firefox users, click here.
   2. Select File | Save As and a "Save As" window will open.
   3. Set Save as type: to "Web pages, HTML only" . Then, click Save.
   4. Select the folder where you want to save the page in your computer. Click OK when done to get back to the Save As menu.
      Hint: Save time by storing pages in matching directories (folders) on your harddisk. Example: If translating intro.html (see link above) into Nepali, store your translation at http://www.kidlink.org/nepali/general on your computer. I always store translations I am working on my desktop. This way it is easy to retrieve them when I have extra time to translate.
   5. Set File name: to the same file name as the English language source. Example: save overview.html as overview.html
      Important: Do not translate directory and file names!
   6. Click "OK" to save the page.
   7. Check if you saved the page correctly.
      
3. Open FrontPage. Click at File | Open. Select the local folder where you saved the page you are going to translate. Click on the page you are going to translate. Click Open
4. Set the language on the page to be your language.

   Select File | Properties | Language | Mark current document as. Then, click at Html encoding, Save the document as, select the appropriate language character set. Note: For some languages, this may not be enough. In our translations into Gujarati, the fonts are "imported" from an external server to be viewed properly. More about Non-Latin Characters

   Select the Custom tag on this popup menu. Mark Description in the lower window, and click at Modify...  Translate the text written in Value. (Alas, it may be a long line, hard to edit.) Click OK. Exit the popup menu, and save the document before proceeding.

5. Translate by overwriting the English language text. Keep links the way they are!

   Translate verbatim! Do not translate the name Kidlink.Be careful not to do change embedded image codes or destroy anchors!

   Translate the page's title, and page description so that the page will be reported correctly by Google and other search engines in your language.

   1. Select File | Properties | Language, and set settings for "Mark current language as", and "Save the document as".
   2. Click on the General tab and translate the title text.
   3. Click at the Custom tab to translate the description. Click at the text by "Description", click at "Modify" to change, and type your translation in the "Value" field. Click "OK" two times.
   4. Save your changes.

   Some images, like those in the footer (at the bottom) of a page, may contain an alternative text that appears if a viewer points at the image with the mouse. Mark the image, click with the lower mouse button to get a menu of choices, then select "Picture properties". In the window that appears, select the tab "General", then enter you your translated version of the alternative text by "Alternative representations - Text". Click OK when done, and save the page.

   Special: The top navigation bar, Links, text in illustrations, Search, Footers (the bottom of pages). Marking untranslated links (optional).
   

6. Spell check your translation
   
7. Check all links!
   
8. Credit yourself for the translation at the bottom of the page: "Translated by Your Name". Mark the name you just typed, click at Insert | Link, and a Link Properties window will open. Type mailto:your@mailaddress (please replace your@mailaddress with your email address :-).

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