My company, Web Lite Solutions, has launched a new web site translation service to translate data-driven websites into multiple languages.

The service uses Dataface as a foundation to convert existing PHP/MySQL web sites into multilingual sites without having to change the site’s structure very much.  Theoretically any web site developed using PHP and MySQL could be converted with minimal changes.  The technology is currently being used to convert Science.ca into French, and it is used to power the http://translate.weblite.ca site itself also.

In the case of Science.ca, attempts had been made to port the site into multilingual frameworks such as Plone or Typo-3 without success.  The site had over 5 years of development invested in the current framework and changing frameworks would have been a lot of work ( = time and money).

Web Lite Translate, on the other hand, was able to cooperate with the existing architecture to seamlessly convert it into a multilingual site.

Check out Web Lite Translate at http://translate.weblite.ca .