Saturday 17th May 2008

Chinese Web Development Do you want to promote your company into the world's fastest growing consumer market? Will your website be understood by 1 billion potential customers? There has never been a better time to add Chinese-language support to your website.
Which Language?
There are two different written forms of Chinese commonly used on the internet, these are called Simplified and Traditional. There are also various language dialects used for spoken chinese - you would only be concerned about these if you were using spoken text audio (eg a dubbed video). Which should you use?
For Mainland China
You need to use Simplified characters written Chinese, and Mandarin language audio.
For Taiwan
You need to use Traditional characters written Chinese, and Mandarin language audio.
For Hong Kong and Macau
You need to use Traditional characters written Chinese, and Cantonese language audio.
Mysterious Ways are the experts. No-one else provide our quailty and rapid turn-around for the price and you will not find anyone else who has such intimate knowledge of so many different web development systems, databases and languages and the implications of using Chinese language text with them. We go far beyond simple translation. We offer:
- Full website development - Want a website built from scratch? We can develop almost any website. See our web skills here, and our database/programming skills here.
- Full cultural consultancy - Are you using the right colours, the right wording, the right layout? Even simple things such as certain telephone numbers may have bad meaning in chinese culture. We will identify any potential problems for you and suggest the easiest way to resolve them.
- Regional variations - Target your site for mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan, or any combination, or a site designed generically for all chinese areas.
- Your Chinese communication bridge - For an additional charge we can handle incoming and outgoing email, fax and/or telephone enquiries from China, taking & translating details and forwarding important information direct to the relevent people in your organization.
- Chinese marketing & promotion - We can help your company find sales leads in China, we can help you prepare and distribute email to lists of chinese customers, whatever technical or marketing services you need in China we can do it for you.
Which Language?
There are two different written forms of Chinese commonly used on the internet, these are called Simplified and Traditional. There are also various language dialects used for spoken chinese - you would only be concerned about these if you were using spoken text audio (eg a dubbed video). Which should you use?
For Mainland China
You need to use Simplified characters written Chinese, and Mandarin language audio.
For Taiwan
You need to use Traditional characters written Chinese, and Mandarin language audio.
For Hong Kong and Macau
You need to use Traditional characters written Chinese, and Cantonese language audio.
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