How to Translate Your Web Site into Any Language

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How to Translate Your Web Site into Any Language

Translation has always been done better by humans than machines, but who can afford to find, let alone hire, a translator? Still, machine translation can get it right enough to at least decipher the crude translations.

With that said, here are some useful tips and free resources:

NewsTran.com offers a free online assortment of translators, including Babelfish, Intertran, Google, Xerox and several others. You can copy/cut and paste text or URLS into many of the online tools, and in seconds you have a rough translation. The NewsTran link takes you indirectly to Humanitas-international.org and this is the direct page for their translator assortment. Sadly, every minute or so the page seems to disappear and go back to the NewsTran page, and it takes several clicks to return to where you want, so you might want to bookmark it.

NewsTran also offers translation of more than 10,000 foreign newspapers!

http://www.humanitas-international.org/newstran/comparisons.htm

I also ran across a website called TransLingo that supposedly allowed you to put a translation menu on your own site, but I could never get it it to work properly. The website is pretty sparse and offers very little help. It offers an online code generator where you choose the languages you want (30 are supported) and it then gives you your code to cut and paste into your own web page. WARNING: First, paste the code into a plain and simple word processor like Notepad (I like NoteTab much, much better!) to get rid of all the ASCII code that is substituted for things like spaces between words - that really screws up an HTML design program like MS FrontPage.

Here it is; you can try it out on this page. This combination of languages gave me only Ajeeb as the translator machine choice.

Language

Arabic
Chinese
Danish
French
German
Greek
Italian
Latin American Spanish
Russian
Spanish

When I tried to translate this page into Spanish, I got this error message:

Invalid URL: http:// We're sorry we've encountered an error with your request. If you think this is a bug we should know about send us e-mail and let us know the following: * What browser you were using. * The operating system you are on. * The type of translation you were trying when this error occurred. The error encountered is: 141

So we try again, this time inserting the URL for this page into the online tool (though the instructions say you can omit the URL and then place the code on any page you want translated:

Danish
French
German
Latin American Spanish
Spanish

This time I got: The error encountered is: 149

After examining the code, I learned that somehow a lot of garbage got into my URL, so I redid that and then got this error:

You do not have permission to call this script from http://www.tenntimes.org/phoentech/tools/translation/translate-00.htm. Please install this script on your own server if you wish to use it. You can get the script from the TrãnsLìngö Homepage.

OK, after some searching I find you need to download some cgi scripts, then upload them to your own server. They never tell you that where you would expect to find it. So I'll try that!

Try here for the cgi downloads - it's only 32Kb. But aaah, that didn't work either - same error.

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