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The most popular free Web-based language translation tools are offered by Google, AltaVista Babelfish and WorldLingo. Using these services, web audiences who speak English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean or Russian will be able to translate websites into their native language.

With over 65% of web users speaking a language other than English, providing the means of translating websites with English content to another language is very essential. Your multilingual website becomes more accessible and popular if users can translate your website content into their native language.

There are two methods to let your visitors easily translate your website:

Method ONE: All these services provide a translation box. To translate a webpage, you simply type in the URL of the website, choose the source and target language, and click the Translate button. [World Lingo, Google Translate, BabelFish Translate]

Method TWO: Here we will integrate the translation form in the website itself without requiring the user to visit any external page for translation. Your web visitors will be able to translate foreign language content into their native language by simply clicking the country flag icon. (Notice the top right corner of this page to see the various country flag icons). Simply cut and paste the code into your pages.

1. Alta Vista Babel Fish:

Babel Fish Translate is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Just add the following single line of JavaScript code to your website.

<script language=”JavaScript1.2? src=”http://www.altavista.com/static/scripts/translate_engl.js”></script>

2. Google Translate: Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). Remember to replace the value of variable “u” with the URL of your website. The translated pages can even be bookmarked.

<table width=”320?> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td>   <form action=”http://www.google.com/translate” target=”_blank”>   <td width=”40?><script language=”JavaScript”>  <!–   document.write (”<input name=u value=”+location.href+” type=hidden>”)  // –>  </script>   <noscript>   <input name=”u” value=”http://labnol.blogspot.com” type=”hidden” />   </noscript>   <input name=”hl” value=”en” type=”hidden”>   <input name=”ie” value=”UTF8? type=”hidden”>   <input name=”langpair” value=”” type=”hidden”>   <input name=”langpair” value=”en|fr” title=”Français/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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|de” title=”Deutsch/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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|it” title=”Italiano/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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|pt” title=”Português/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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|es” title=”Español/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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|ja” 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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|ko” 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?> </td>   <td width=”40?><input name=”langpair” value=”en|zh-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?> </td>   </form>   </tr>   </table>