So all you webmasters out there! Now its time to cherish this amazing tool called “Google Translate†that is there to assist you in breaking the most widely spread barrier of the web world- The Language Barrier!
Let us have a look as to what the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog has to elaborate on the whole issue:
“When webmasters put content out on the web it's there for the world to see.
Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in a single language, understandable by only a fraction of the world's population.
In a continued effort to make the world's information universally accessible, Google Translate has a number of tools for you to automatically translate your content into the languages of the world.
Users may already be translating your webpage using Google Translate, but you can make it even easier by including our "Translate My Page" gadget, available at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools.
The gadget will be rendered in the user's language, so if they come to your page and can't understand anything else, they'll be able to read the gadget, and translate your page into their language.
Sometimes there may be some content on your page that you don't want us to translate. You can now add class=notranslate to any HTML element to prevent that element from being translated. For example, you may want to do something like:
Email us at <span class="notranslate">sales at mydomain dot com</span>
And if you have an entire page that should not be translated, you can add:
<meta name="google" value="notranslate">
to the <head> of your page and we won't translate any of the content on that page.
Lastly, if you want to do some fancier automatic translation integrated directly into your page, check out the AJAX Language API we launched last March.
With these tools we hope you can more easily make your content available in all the languages we support, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.â€
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nice topic i like it
thanks Nav
I used Google translate at my latest blog, but I found out that a lot of the attributes were not translated and most of all when they were, were not properly localised, e.g the date format translation and etc.