Saturday, June 7, 2008

Add Language Translation Script, Google Language Tools

In this world, any kind of people exist. They different in culture, custom, believe, even langauage. Not 100% of people can understand all the languages in the world. So, to break this language barrier, translation is useful at this time.

Internet realizes the word "Globalization", making the distance between people becomes closer & closer. For bloggers, multi languages blogging become essential to break the barrier to enter different world.

Google Language Tools

The tool is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), etc. After translation, reader can even bookmark the page. The language translation tools are free & let bloggers post messages simultaneously in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and other languages.

2 Methods to Translate a Website

  1. Log-on Google Langauge. To translate a webpage, just simply type in the URL of the website, choose the source and target language, and click the Translate button.
  2. Integrating Google Translation into Blog without requiring the reader to visit any external page for translation. Blog visitors will be able to translate foreign language content into their native language by simply clicking the country flag icon.

To install Google Language Tool

Just simply cut and paste the below html code to your page:-

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write ("<input name=u value="+location.href+" type=hidden>")
// -->
</script>

<input name="hl" value="en" type="hidden">

<input name="ie" value="UTF8" type="hidden">

<input name="langpair" value="" type="hidden">

<input name="langpair" value="enfr" title="French" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539949_e76af75976.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="ende" title="German" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539933_041ca1eda2.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enit" title="Italian" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539953_0384ccecf9.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enpt" title="Portuguese" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539966_0d09b410b5.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enes" title="Spanish" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539946_2fabed0dbf.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enja" title="Japanese" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539955_925e6683c8.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enko" title="Korean" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539958_3c3b482c95.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair" value="enzh-CN" title="Chinese Simplified" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/14324441_5ca5ce3423.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">

<input name="langpair2" value="enar" title="Arabic" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3709/485/1600/arabic-flag.gif" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30" />
</form>

Besides installing Adsense & Webmaster, perhaps this Google Language Tools is another attrative gadget developed from Google to create more fun for bloggers!

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