I have just revamped my translation website, shifting the focus to providing machine translations of web sites. The site will allow users to upload their websites as a ZIP file, and have them automatically converted into nearly 30 languages.

I have leveraged quite a bit of open source software to make this happen, including Xataface, and this is only phase one. Xataface already allows developers to easily convert monolingual web applications written in PHP into multilingual applications complete with Google Translate integration, and support for human translation also. I am currently working on some modules to improve interoperability with other translation tools using the XLIFF document standard.

For those people who require a high quality human translation, I have provided a quote form from Translated.Net to get an instant quote. Ultimately translate.weblite.ca will become a portal with all kinds of tools and information about website internationalization. One step at a time ….