Translated text always reads very badly because colloquial expressions are always translated literally. It's often very funny to ready a translated piece, and it's rarely easy to understand.

There are thousands of human-based translation firms on the Net. Search for them, and you will find that they're prices are often quite affordable.

Your best bet would be to have a set of links on your start page saying "click here" for each language. Make sure that for each such page that you're using the right character set Front page lets you do this very easily in its page properties dialogue.

I have to agree completely with Thomas about software translation packages. At best they're a high speed typewriter - but you'll spend ages and I do mean ages correxting a series of hilarious mistakes.

The alternative route is to get one written for you - the best I ever saw was translating patent documents in a particular field of research. The downside was that it took several years to develop and ran only on HP's flavour of Unix. - A bit excessive!

A further point - English is an especially "bad" source language for machine translation - simply because its vocabulary is so huge, and its grammar so difficult. (The very things that make it such a wonderfully flexible language.) You can also have difficulties between dialects - the disparities between the UK and North American usage being the best known case.

- Twist it you can horribly, laws of usage break permanently but motivation still come out

(sort of! )

Software companies such as Microsoft spend a fortune on localisation for just this reason.

Sorry to be so discouraging.

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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com
Email Address: marksaunders@techie.com
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[This message has been edited by gorilla (edited 08-06-2001).]