We at Easyling strongly believe that each LSP should have free access to the latest technological innovations of the language industry. We claim that any intention to limit this freedom of choice is wrong not just for the LSPs but end-users and the industry as a whole. We do believe that competition should inspire technology providers to improve their services and provide better support to LSPs. * We believe in innovation & client education.
On December 22, the public beta of the multicache feature has drawn to a close, and the final user interface was rolled out, giving users the power to add, rename, and assign separate caches to various proxy modes. Recap Easyling has had its caching capabilities for well over a year now. Initially, the proxy only cached the output of the translation process, in order to speed up serving the translated pages if the source remained unchanged - this was called the Binary Cache.
We created a short, vendor-independent video about the website translation proxy to explain the technology, how it works, the question of hosting and how the translation is created. The video is a great way for LSPs to explain translation proxy to their clients. Feel free to share it!
Balázs Benedek, our founder and CTO covers topics from the basics to advanced levels, including: infinite dynamic product catalogs, CSS overriding, the bleed-through phenomenon, caching needs, content multiplier parameters (color, size, price), using regular expressions, workflow automation for the new content, translating content beyond the login sessions, and more. The webinar is free for GALA members and $60 for non-members. View webinar. You can also read a summary of this webinar on GALA’s website.
This move has long been overdue - a good thing because we keep growing and welcoming new people in our team. As much as we loved the old office, we desperately needed more space. Our new office is a penthouse, with enough room and plenty of community space, plus a terrace on the roof with a great view of the city. We are so excited to continue working here!
Sometimes different language versions are required for visitors from different countries or regions. For example, an e-commerce site would like to list different products for visitors in Germany and visitors in Spain while also displaying the site in the adequate language. In this case, the language and the content regions are 2 separate dimensions. How is it possible to to display different local versions with the Translation Proxy? Here is a simple approach: Use the domain name to indicate the language, and the URL to indicate the region.
We had an excellent conference in Seville, thanks to the organizers of GALA. It was great to catch up with old friends and finally meet with many of you in person. I had the chance to leave my booth for the keynote speech of Paula Barbary Shannon from Lionbridge. I found it very motivating and uplifting that even a huge corporation like Lionbridge is able to integrate the lean startup principles to support innovation within the company.
In this article, we review the options of translating websites and sum up the pros, cons and costs involved for each option. There are 3 options to localize a website: Translation directly in the customer’s Content Management System (CMS): translators do the translation right in the customer CMS’s admin interface. Using content connectors: the customer’s IT department extracts the source content for the LSP, and then they put back the translation into the original CMS.