Do you want to automatically translate all of the pages of your web site
into the most popular languages and facilitate foreign visitors get an
insight into your content without hiring a pro translator? Here is we guide to the best tools and services to automatically translate your web site in multiple languages.
Best Web Site Translation Tools
- Google Language Tools
Google Language Tools allows you to translate web pages or texts
instantly. The service is completely free, and supports all the
principal languages spoken across the World: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic,
Hindi, French, Italian, Spanish, and many more. You can add a gadget
(Google's for widget) to your site pasting just a line of code. Your
visitors will then have a drop-down menu where they can choose their
mother tongue, and have your content translated automatically (just
plain text, no images or hidden texts). About the text translation
option, Google Translation Tools has no special character feature, or
offers to upload documents from your hard-disk for immediate
translation.
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en
- Yahoo! Babel Fish
Yahoo! Babel Fish is a free online tool to translate web pages or blocks
of text. Powered by the SYSTRAN translation engine, Yahoo! Babel Fish
allows the translation of texts up to 150 words and web pages from and
to a very large set of languages (Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and many more.) To take advantage of the
translation capabilities of Yahoo! Babel Fish on your site, just choose
between two simple one-line-code widgets, depending you need to
translate your own web pages or offer your readers to translate
third-party web sites or a text of their choice. Translation is
performed on plain text only, not images or hidden text.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service
- SWeTE
SWeTE (acronym for Simple Website Translation Engine) is a free tool to
translate web sites to multiple languages. You can add a small set of
flags to the source code of your site / blog, and let users
automatically get a version of your web pages in their desired idiom.
The SWeTE code is very easy to implement and allows you to further
customize the translations rendered on your web site, working also on
links, images, or hidden texts. The service currently supports
translations from / to English and some of the following languages:
Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, and many others.
http://swete.weblite.ca/
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