A distinctive feature of a company’s policy in today’s competitive world is to have its own website, which was not the case by the end of the 20th century. As part of their policy to introduce innovative services some railway companies in Europe have implemented such interactive services that their websites now normally use. Among them we can note interactive maps, detailed weather forecasting and online booking. The structure of the website, the target country or area of the website and the type of the content to be found on it are the three most crucial aspects should be taken into account in describing the language they use. In selecting the target audience of the websites or pages one has to outline the geographic areas and what their role is distinguishing between the international, domestic and local websites, which is the result of a thorough and detailed classification. The differences between the online content and the language choices of the analyzed websites were very clear and quite visible. Only customers in their home country can benefit from the wide range of services offered by the website of a particular railway company. The information on these websites is basically written in the official language of the country, while the site itself keeps the most essential documentation related to the specific company. Thus a French to English Translator was asked to translate the information on a Japanese railway company into English, but on the condition that in the English version he would have to provide information that concerns only international customers.

The difference between local websites and domestic websites which are owned by railway companies that operate internationally lies in the fact that former usually have different content oriented towards the foreign customers and sections in the country specific language. The beneficiaries of the information offered in the local websites may be prospective or current residents or just travelers. The content of these web pages very often comprises both of these aspects, but only a small number of cases refers to the services of local customers, not incoming travelers. Companies often have an international landing page or a separate website which contains material that is relevant to all countries and the links to the local sites are the only local references. All this is added to the regional and local websites and pages. Thus, a Certified Italian Translator has been used in the creation and development of the web sites of some companies coming from the Middle East region so that a wider range of customers can reach them. The function of the international website may be a page that serves as an entrance to local sites or simply as a redirection home page.

A distinctive feature of websites is that often part of the content is presented in the target country language of the target country, but many links lead to an international website. A website can be defined as a group of web pages created by a certain organization that deal with a certain subject. This is the definition that most sources will give. For example, the Russian company Artemis has designed a website in which we can select our country when we enter their international page, which takes us back to the definition of a web page. It was the job of the Russian Translator that should be praised because all the necessary texts were translated by him. However, no links to the pages of the other countries are available if we enter the home page in our country. Speaking about the content of the websites we can make the following division: decentralized and centralized depending on the customers and their needs.

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