Thread: Making your own website for foreign-language speakers in Homepage

As responsible world citizens with numerous acquaintances and friends all around the globe, you want to offer your website to your friends in their language. How dumb though, that you hardly know this language.

With certain restrictions, a gadget by Google can solve this problem to a large extent. A short code integrates the reference of this tool in its Website.Check under point 1 that the language of your website is set to 'English'. Then click in the display field under that, so that the HTML code appears marked in blue. With the Key combination [Ctrl)+[C), copy it to the clipboard.

Now open the start page of your homepage locally with an HTML-Editor to edit. Insert the one-line script reference in the suitable location for the gadget. Check the display of the gadget in a preview. The script command does not function locally. The changed content must be put online again.

Now, through the combination field in the gadget, you can select the desired target language. Then Google directs your website to its translation service and delivers the result. On top, there is a note regarding this automatic translation by Google as well as a link leading back to the original version of the website. The viewer is then in a mode, to let all other linked pages run through the tool by Google and be displayed in the previously selected language.

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An automatic translation is always flawed with considerable drawbacks. Apart from funny effects, there are also errors, which can easily lead to incomprehensibility or misunderstanding. For a commercial page, this gives a very unprofessional impression. Incidentally, the service can be reached directly through 'http://translate.google.com'.