Getting Started with the Translator Web Widget
The Translator Web Widget is a simple way to make your web page immediately accessible to a worldwide audience through automatic translation. Translations are free of cost and not bound by any monthly volume restrictions. The Widget has a variety of features designed to make translations easy for visitors of your site:
- Drag and drop the floating Widget anywhere on the page.
- When idle, the Widget will collapse to take less space on the page.
- Share a translated page by clicking on the email icon.
- Revert to original language by clicking on the exit button on the widget (X).
- The Widget is localized according to your visitor’s browser accept-language setting. For example, if the visitor to your website is a Spanish speaker and your website is in English, they will see the Widget in Spanish.
- Add support for a Microsoft Translator Hub Category ID.
- Switch to always-on https for use on intranets.
The Translator Web Widget is available at www.microsofttranslator.com/widget. For instructions on adding the Widget to your page, click here.
Note: If you only want to add support for a few languages without adding the Widget to your page, and you do not need to support the CTF, the Hub or https (SSL), a simple alternative to the Widget is to add a link to your page to the translated version of your page through the Microsoft Translator “Bilingual Viewer”.
To add the translated version of the page, go to www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx, enter your site URL, hit “translate”, and use the link displayed in your browser address window.
Example: The link for the Microsoft Translator home page in Spanish would be www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to;=es&a;=microsoft.com/translator