click here!

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

How does one accurately translate "Click here!" in Russian (as in, on a website).

Thanks!

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

Depending on the general style of the website text,
from "Жми тут!" (very colloquial) to "Щелкните здесь" (will do for a corporation website)

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

Is there a standard?

[oryx_and_crake]

I translate documents for IBM official Russian Web-site and Microsoft software documentation. Both companies have their style guides that dictate "Нажмите" for a button and "Щелкните" for a link. I suppose that's as close to a standard as one gets.

[pinky-the-cow.livejournal.com]

Not really, but there are lots of poor examples.

I trolled a bit at artlebedev.ru, the site of a respectable russian design studio. My guess is that should you propose a "click here!" equivalent (like "кликните здесь!") to be used at your site there, you'd get a definite (albeit possibly insulting) explanation why (and/or that) it should never be used.

Except for banners, perhaps. Those can stand anything. The worse the better — less enticing.

Anyway, there is a lot of other methods of calling an attention to links.

[mukaltin.livejournal.com]

Well, I suggest "Нажмите" over "Щелкните". Furthermore, I've never seen latter across the Web :)

[oryx_and_crake]

http://community.livejournal.com/learn_russian/695648.html?thread=10754144#t10754144

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

I think we want catchy over corporate... it's for a Russian version of supplement to our magazine.

[mukaltin.livejournal.com]

Well, quite informal and pretty literal translation is "Кликни здесь". It's useful for a youth website, but non-appropriate for the page with a serious content. For this purpose use "Нажмите здесь".

[arashi-opera.livejournal.com]

The general formal translation will be Нажмите здесь.

[mortimer-ford.livejournal.com]

:Snort: I was looking for a place to click.

[aylie-serinde.livejournal.com]

Кликните здесь.
Variants: Нажмите на ссылку. Перейдите по ссылке.
Since the internet is not such a place strict to the language as official documents for example, the use of a neologism кликать is perfectly possible.

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

It varies from "тыц сюда" on a personal page or weblog - and up to "скачать файл", "версия для печати", "обсуждение" etc on a respectable corporate site ("click here" hyperlinks are strongly prohibited on these sites).

[mouseamouse.livejournal.com]

It would be:

"Кликни здесь"
"Кликабельно" (if it`s a picture)
"Кликнуть"

or without borrowed english word

"Жми!"
"Нажать"
"Жать сюда"

[rubinat.livejournal.com]

+ тыкни тут

[erimeev.livejournal.com]

The most famous russian designer Artemiy Lebedev (www.design.ru) says that "click here" is not correct, moreover it is not needed. You can make something like:
We would like to -tell more about the stuff-
Also you can -find additional information-
Please -book-
the hyperlinks are put with --

[xswt-cherryx.livejournal.com]

woah these comments confuse me! I would have no idea which is right lol

[krilvic.livejournal.com]

"жми тут" - это вообще бред.
лучше всего написать "Оk")))