How can you translate a website?

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I have been reading the responses to Marco ( RE: How to translate a website using Trados Studio 2019-2022 ) a few months back with a topic that is pretty much the same problem I have. I need to translate a web page and I have been trying to follow the advice in that thread, but it does not work for me. 
 As I understand it, this should be quite simple, save the web page and then process the files like any other project in Studio. But I have tried different ways of saving the page and I can't get it to work. I have used a couple of the programs posted in that thread but nothing. Trados doesn't even accept the files that I download, when I can download anything. Can anyone help me with this task? 
 I just need to know the steps to save those files and how I put them in Trados so I can translate like any other project. 
 Thanks in advance for your help.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Andrés Eloy Mendoza Rodríguez 
 Andrés Eloy Mendoza Rodríguez said: It cannot be difficult to translate a webpage using Trados. 
 Reading your post, I&rsquo;d say that it&rsquo;s more difficult than you think&hellip; 
 The simplest way is to agree with your client what exactly you need to do, the scope, the deliverables format&hellip; 
 Some of my clients said that I needed to copy and paste the content into Word documents, then they will insert the translated text somehow. Some clients didn&rsquo;t bother about translating meta data (keywords, description, title and so on), some others asked me to extract this content as well (and I charged accordingly). Some clients sent XML files, or Excel files or HTML files, formats that they could directly import into their system. You need to agree on something with your client, that&rsquo;s the most important part, and you need to understand better the options before asking here how you are going to do it in Trados Studio. The easiest part is the last one, the Trados part, and good news is that Trados is probably compatible with whatever way your clients needs. 
 I mentioned some options above, but I don&rsquo;t know which one your client prefers, and it&rsquo;s your responsibility to know the best workflow.

Paul · Answer

Andrés Eloy Mendoza Rodríguez 
 Just to echo what Jesús Prieto said, you should speak to your client. If it's helpful, and because it probably will reinforce this message, I created a short video using HTTrack (first time for me :-)) and used it to download a small website and translate in Studio. I think the experience is probably mirroring the sort of thing that you are seeing so maybe the video will be helpful:

Paul · Answer

Andrés Eloy Mendoza Rodríguez 
 Can you provide a bit more detail please? 
 
 outline the exact process you have tried so far? 
 how did you go about it? 
 explain what kind of files you downloaded (file extension for example) 
 
 Also, have you tried asking your customer for the source files? I often find this odd when people have to download the files themselves. Your customer must be able to do this seeing as he'll need to put the translated files up there!

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How can you translate a website?

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