Translator widget using country flags

Monday, March 8, 2010 14:10

Posted in category Blogging

If you’re receiving traffic from search engine searches, you’ll notice that not all of your visitors come from English-speaking countries. This is specially true for image searches. One of the most popular pages in my Warcraft blog receives a bulk of its traffic from Google image search. Having a means to translate your blog into the reader’s native language is very handy. It promotes readability and encourages the reader to explore more of your site.

For me, having an on-page translator is necessary. There are many ways of translating your blog but I like using the visible flags the most. They are easily noticeable and recognizable and you can readily tell that it’s a translator. What’s the use of having a translator if the reader can’t even understand its text?

This is the exact code I used on my Warcraft blog. It’s a modification of a widget I found somewhere.

Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish translation
images in 24×24 PNG format and hosted by Google on Picasa web albums
background color is transparent
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