1. The Multilingual Website Challenge

2. Agenda
+ Multilingual Motivation
+ Multilingual Challenges
+ What might go wrong in website Localization
+ How to do it right – Websites Translation
+ Practical tools, techniques & solutions

3. FACTS ABOUT INTERNET USERS –
THE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

4. 70% OF INTERNET USERS ARE
NOT NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS

5. 65% OF INTERNET USERS RATHER READ
CONTENT IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE

6. 50 LANGUAGES COVER 96% OF
INTERNET USERS

7. To Summarize:
• Most Internet users are not native English speakers
and rather read content in their native language.
• Professional translation of content extends the reach
and increases the effectively of the message.
• Since online content changes rapidly a fast
professional translation service is needed to keep
the translated material up-to-date.

8. Conclusion:
Professionally translated content reaches
more people more effectively

9. Challenges and Solutions
+ Professionalism (Human!)
+ Quality Assurance
+ Speed?!
+ Technology at your service
OneHourTranslation

10. Translation speed:
Translated content has to keep-up with the
original content generation rate.
Thus, fast professional translation is
required.

11. Localizing Websites
El-Al website ‫אתר הכנסת‬
Additional challenges:
+ On-screen aspects
+ Flexibility / Updates
+ Costs
+ Usability & Compatibility
+ SEO
WebSite Translation – WeST

13. ONEHOURTRANSLATION Website Translation
• Content types
• Plugins
• OHT API
• WeST™ - Web Site Translation

14. Content types
• Menus and interface - .POT & .PO files
• General WP menus – Mostly localized
• Site specific menus – Not localized
• Posts, pages
• Unique posts and pages – Not localized
• Multiple solutions: automated and
professional

15. Translation interface types
• WP admin side translation – multiple plugins
• WP front side translation - Transposh
• API translation – 3rd party interface - OHT

16. Plugins
• One post per language
• All languages for each post in the same post
• Manage translations on the generated page
• Plugins that direct you to external translation services
• Link together separate WordPress installations

17. WeST API
• Professional translation
• Provides 3rd party (One Hour Translation) translation
environment and editors
• Automated send and receive process
• Scalable
• No need to grant access to individuals
• SEO friendly (depends implementation)

18. WeST JS
• Professional translation
• Platform independent
• Automatically keeps all content up-to-date in up to 70
languages
• No need for complicated integration
• No changes to local DB
• 3rd party translation interface

19. WeST JS

20. ONEHOURTRANSLATION USES
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES:
• Translation Memory
• API
• WeST™ - Web Site Translation
• TransBox – Translate from your Inbox
• Real Time Reviews
• Strings
• Translators Workbench
• Machine Translation Detector

21. In Brief:
• One Hour Translation is built to provide high-quality
translation fast.
• It is processing over 60,000 projects a month.
• Works with 57% of Fortune 500 companies.
• Has thousands of satisfied customers.
• Monitor quality of every project both manually and
automatically.
• The only service with count-down timer,
guaranteeing on-time
translation delivery.

22. THANK Y U
Looking Forward to Translating your Website
www.onehourtranslation.com