Add Translation to your blog
easyexpat
| 18 March, 2006 10:25
How to make foreign visitors love your website even if they don't
understand your language ? Add Language Translation to your blogs.
This is a simple Step by step guide to provide instant language
translation in your blog. Your site visitors can translate any webpage
by clicking on the corresponding country flag and read your website in
their native language.
Machine translation in blogs or websites is probably the easiest way
of helping readers from different countries communicate. Even if a
blogger writes in Spanish and a reader speaks English, or vice versa,
both of them can still understand each other.
Today, people are blogging in multiple languages to create a
conversation with readers outside the English Speaking blogosphere.
Free language translation tools let bloggers post messages
simultaneously in English, German, French, Spanish and other languages.
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.
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Easy Expat on expatsradio.com
easyexpat
| 07 March, 2006 17:58
Do you know expatsradio.com? That's a worldwide Internet (maybe soon FM too) radio station exclusively for expats. Wherever you are, you can easily listen to the expatsradio programmes, just by clicking on Listen Now and then choosing the day you want to listen to.
Well, it's talking (in English) about France as the main topic currently, but you will have soon a lot of other countries (Spain, ...) where expats are living added. Nice news isn't it? Even better, you will be able to hear something about Easy Expat on the radio. Well, it's talking a bit about me (as the founder) but I tried to keep it short so it's not too borring (with my poor delicious French accent 
and then I moved to talk about Easy Expat, and a presentation of the website, why we focus on cities (instead of countries), and all the other services that Easy Expat is offering (for free!) including a blog platform.
You can listen to my performance directly below:
[This page uses Dewplayer]
or - this week only - on expatsradio.com (click Tuesday).
I'm currently discussing with the radio as we might try to make it regularly, talking about different topics. Next time may be about blogs and how they offer a great opportunity for expats. Any other suggestion is welcome of course...
How to post a podcast
easyexpat
| 01 March, 2006 20:59
Podcast - or videocast - are the two new great features in the blog area. The first one allows to put some audio file on your blog (as we did here) and the second one is showing videos on blogs (using for example vpod.tv).
But how to post a podcast on your BlogExpat ?
1) upload the mp3 file via the resource center
2) create a new post
3) type the contents of the post and include a link to your mp3 file. Please use the "add resource" link.
4) Now the podcast is ready. Take a look at the RSS 2.0 feed for your blog and you'll see an <enclosure ...> tag pointing to your mp3 file.
You can include a link to the file by inserting a ressource in the text box of your post. You can also have a look directly in you ALBUM on the blog, to see the file ready to be downloaded.
- In order to put some button to run it like on EasyExpat's blog, you can use Dewplayer, with a piece of code that you insert in you blog directly (you need to insert into the html directly. To edit your text into HTML format, use the button < >). It will be such as (replace the name of your album and your_song):
<object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/plugins/dewplayer.swf?son=/blog/resource/your album/download/your_song.mp3" width="200"
height="20">
<param
name="movie" value="/plugins/dewplayer.swf?son=/blog/resource/your album/download/your_song.mp3" />
</object>
Happy podcast!!!
