TrãnsLìngö
Overview
Did you know that 50% of the world cannot find your website? This is because,
half the world either does not speak English, or prefers to search the web in
their own language. In either case, if your website is not in their language,
it won't show up in the search engines. TrãnsLìngö helps you target these remaining
50% users by making your website multilingual. It provides dynamic translation
of your website to and from over 30 languages! TrãnsLìngö is Freeware, which
means that it is free for both private and commercial use. However, since TrãnsLìngö
uses free translation services provided by other companies like Systran, you
should have look at the Terms of Use of the translation service.
- Support for over 30 Languages - TrãnsLìngö
supports translation to and from over 30 languages, including: Arabic, Brazilian
Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional,
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, European Spanish, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Welsh
- On-the-Fly Translation - Translation is
done dynamically and on-the-fly
- No Server Space Required - Translation
of a web page is done when required. You don't need to translate and store
pages on your web server.
- Engine Updates - Translation engines required
by TrãnsLìngö are stored in a separate engines file. Updating this file
will add support for more languages to TrãnsLìngö. The updates will be available
at this site free of cost. If you would like to be notified of the engine
updates, you can subscribe to the Mailing list.
- HTML Code Wizard - TrãnsLìngö now includes
a HTML Code Wizard that guides you through a step-by-step process of generation
HTML code to translate your website. After the wizard is done, all you have
to do is to copy-and-paste the code in your web pages. The code translates
the page that it appears on, so the same code will work on all pages of
your site.
TrãnsLìngö runs on both Windows and Unix systems. You need to have CGI support
and at least version 5 of the Perl interpreter on your system.
This web site is powered by TrãnsLìngö. You can see how translation works
by clicking on the Language menu on the left side of this page. If you want
to see how the script works and generates HTML code, Click here.
Note:The demo and translations are currently
offline due to the site being upgraded.
Perform the following steps to install the script.
- Extract the files from the archive. This will create 2 directories
cgi-bin and translingo.
- Upload the directory translingo to your
server. All the files in this directory should be uploaded in ASCII mode,
except for translingo.jpg which should be uploaded
in Binary mode.
- Now open translingo.pl from the cgi-bin
directory in a text editor and make the following changes:
- Modify the first like to point to the correct path of the perl interpreter
on your server. The default #!/usr/bin/perl
should work fine on most servers. If you are running the script on Windows
NT / 2000, you may need to modify this.
- In the User-Configuration section of the script, modify the variables
$DataDirectory, $URLDataDirectory,
@Referers. Information on how to modify
these variables is in the script itself.
- Upload the file translingo.pl from the cgi-bin
directory to the cgi-bin directory on your server.
If you don't have a cgi-bin directory on your
server, then upload it to any directory which has permissions to execute
CGI scripts. Make sure that you upload the file in ASCII mode.
Installation is now complete. Point your favorite browser to the script URL.
If you uploaded the script to cgi-bin, the URL will
probably be http://www.yourserver.com/cgi-bin/translingo.pl.
Follow the instructions to generate HTML code.
