Looking at some sites, it came to my mind that it might be good to actually have a chinese version of my site. Not that anyone chinese would read my blog, but I used to write in chinese, and having to choose to write in english again kind of makes me feel sad. I miss chinese. I personally think that chinese characters are quite fun to look at on a website.

After browsing the net for what could be the best online translator for english to chinese, I have finally decided to use the chinese translator from Altavista. Having said this, I still think that google translate my website better, but there seem to be some code problem which I cannot resolve. So, I will settle for Altavista's babelfish. The first annoying thing that needs to be solved is to remove a huge frame which says babelfish translated your site. Its really huge and white. I think its its really running in conflict with my site.

To not see it, use this address to view your website instead. You will see the banner if you translate from babelfish website directly.

http://world.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?url=http://www.lttbtt.com&lp=en_zh

Notice the www.lttbtt.com, change this into your site address. The second step is to decide to change from what language to what. See "en_zh" at the end of the address above, it means from english to chinese (simplified). Use the right code and you can choose your own language. Remember, its "from this lang _ to this lang". This way, your website would not have the banner at the top.

Try it and let me know if it does not work.

These are Altavista's code for its languages.

"zh" Chinese Simplified
"zt" Chinese Traditional
"nl" Dutch
"en" English
"fr" French
"de" German
"el" Greek
"it" Italian
"ja" Japanese
"ko" Korean
"pt" Portuguese
"ru" Russian
"es" Spanish

Note this is written catered only to babelfish translation.

For google translator, its even easier, as they allow you to remove the frame. After removing the frame, you will get this address:

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=en|zh-CN&u=http://www.lttbtt.com/

Basically its the same here, notice the address segment at the back and the language choice, "en|zh-CN". The difference is in the chinese code between babelfish and google. For google, "zh-cn" Chinese Simplified, "zh-tw" Chinese Traditional and that's all.

Of course, the easiest way is just to go to Altavista or Google to get your website translated.

Enough said. You might want to test both..