The homepage of our business, Hippokrene, has now gone live and information about our work will primarily be found there from now on. However, this page will remain for a time, serving as a brief introduction.
As a native speaker of Swedish who has studied translation as well as English (she holds a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, Grade A), Linda is able to handle translating complex as well as colloquial English texts into good, idiomatic Swedish. She is also able to translate from Swedish to English, and in these cases the final text is scrutinized by Elio, who is a native English speaker currently working on his Master's thesis in English. In addition to knowing English and Swedish, Elio (as a Cuban-American) also has good knowledge of Spanish, and is able to translate from Spanish to either English or Swedish. In the latter case, the text is naturally scrutinized by Linda, to ensure that it reads well to a native speaker of Swedish.
After designing for our own sites (Westeros and Hippoi Athanatoi) for several years, Linda has developed a keen interest in web design and web graphics, as well as a style of her own. She focuses on producing fully CSS-based (no frames, and no tables unless tabular data needs to be displayed) but fairly graphics-intensive sites. She is able to incorporate (but not code from scratch) features such as javascript, SSI and PHP into a design, and she is able to install and setup a variety of perl- and PHP-based scripts. For dynamic sites she recommends ExpressionEngine (several different licenses are available, including a free version for personal use called Expression Engine Core), which is the system that is used to manage our own sites.
