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Web Designers Have New Translation Tool From Google

Written by Ironpaper | Oct 1, 2009 3:37:29 AM

Web designers have a lot of great tools at their disposal thanks to Google. Recently, Google added another tool to the menu. Language translation functionality can now be added to web pages allowing web visitors to have their home language auto-detected and translated from the source content. All a web designer will need to do is add a little bit of code to their pages for the tool to become available. The system will support fifty one languages.

Top: Source Google. Shows a page after translation using the service. This page was translated from English.

Above: Installing the tool will be simple and easy. Web designers and developers will be able to set some basic preferences and generate a code snippet to paste into their builds.