London-based CEGA Air Ambulance provides international medical emergency repatriation through its fleet of airplane ambulances and expert on-flight medical teams. GTS has just completed localization of their website, www.cega-air-ambulance.com into French, German, Spanish and Russian. The translated websites can be seen at:
www.cega-air-ambulance.fr
www.cega-air-ambulance.es
www.cega-air-ambulance.de
www.cega-air-ambulance.ru
The website localization project was done using a proprietary set of tools for website translation and maintenance which were developed at GTS. The website translation system uses a crawler which translates and stores the web pages on our server. Special editing tools are then used to edit the text, replace the graphics with localized versions and translate the meta tags. A Translation Memory is created for each language and is uploaded to our server for version control and for efficient revision of the translated website versions when content changes are made.
Hosting for the translated websites is provided by GTS. The CEGA group purchased the domains (.fr, .it, .es and .ru) and pointed them at the GTS nameservers. So even though the content is hosted on the GTS server, the foreign language websites appear to be coming from the CEGA domain.
Due to our proprietary tools and workflow, no IT work whatsoever was required by CEGA in this project. They did not provide any files or make any adjustments on their servers. And since all hosting, maintenance and updates are provided by GTS, CEGA will not need do deal with many of the headaches typically associated with maintaining a website in multiple languages.
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