I am designing a website for a client who will shortly be starting some work in Libya. He wants me to provide an Arabic translation for his new site so that Libyan clients can click on a button on the Home Page and move to the same site but in their own language. I have never done this sort of thing before and would appreciate some guidelines and advice.

Altavista.com offers a transaltion service. If it's realistic I would just create the pages in english then change the content with a transaltor.

Thanks for a quick response. I'll check it out.

This is "A" solution, but sometimes machine translations are skewed and easy to misinterpret. You don't want your clients clients to think that the CEO of the company is a jackass rather than a genious.

If its just one language and something like the above is a definate concern then hiring a professional translator may just be the best option.