Website Relaunch: Kudos to Rebwebdesign
October 6, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
The relaunch of modilingua.com had been on the back burner for an awful long time, but things finally fell into place last week. The entire German version of the website is online and once some larger client projects have been attended to, I’ll be porting the English content bit by bit.
I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Rebecca of Rebwebdesign for her help with the template design and work in the backend. Reb is a Wordpress specialist who’s adept in PHP, MySQL, CSS and XHTML, and I can recommend her services if you’re looking for a designer who is easy to communicate with, responsive to specific ideas and offers great prices.
I’m excited about the website’s new look and hope that our visitors find the navigational structure as clean and comfortable as we do.
September Recap
September 25, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
It’s been an insanely hectic month here. My order books were overfilled, which was great. But in my “free” time I have also been working on the final edits of a book of mine, which will be coming out very soon. Add a bilingual website relaunch project to all that (which, I admit, was neglected most of the month), and the stress curve can get very high indeed. Essentially, I have been working 18-hour long days for the past four weeks, something that 9-to-5 employees can hardly imagine.
Things are starting to come together now though. We’re going to get the German version of the website out of the sandbox within a week and then I’ll start porting the English content. The clients are all happy, everybody has been attended to on time as always. October’s order books are already full and, of course, I’m looking forward to the galley proofs from my publisher…
Back to Blogging
August 22, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
Work on the long overdue relaunch of modilingua.com is still going on in the backend, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to go ahead and set the blog up. For technical reasons, the English and German posts will be published in two separate blogs here at modilingua.com because a bilingual website like this makes it necessary to do a double installation of Wordpress. So you might want to take note of the German blog, as it could contain entirely different contents.
Both blogs are to act as a filing cabinet of sorts for thoughts on the daily grind of translation. A special emphasis will be placed on freelancing and SOHOs. Because I have also always worked in a Mac network, readers will likely be able to find some hardware/software discussions and tips here from time to time.
A word about me: I published a personal blog between 2000 and 2005. I believe it was the first German-English “mono(b)log” in Germany back then. With the modilingua.com weblog, I’m now breaking professional blogging ground for the first time ever, i.e. writing about topics that are directly linked to my professional activities as a translator and editor. Enjoy!
