New Homepage Design for FreeTranslation.com

12/02/2009 10:47:00 AM

Posted by Paul Singh, eMarketing Manager

We’re really excited to launch our new homepage design for FreeTranslation.com. With the new FreeTranslation.com homepage we’ve given it a clean and fresh new look, making it easier to find what you want on the site. We’ve also included new functionality on the site such as the “switch” language feature, “Discuss your translations” with our new Free online language community and “Auto-detect”, where you simply start typing, or paste, your original text and it automatically detects what language you are using and gives you a list of languages you can translate to. You can still access all the great features you love on FreeTranslation.com such as, Special Characters Keyboard, Website Translations and Human Translation.

The best part of the new design is undoubtedly the speed in which you now get your results. Making the translation appear on an adjacent window means that you see your translation almost instantly without the need to reload a new page.A big thank-you to everyone who participated in our survey telling us what you thought of the design. Here are some of things that you said you liked:

“I love the switch feature ! It makes it much easier for me to use”
“The new design is clearer and easier to use.”
“I like the fact that it's all on the same page.”
“Its fantastic......thanx”

But our work doesn’t stop there. You’ve told us of a few things that you would like improved and we’ll try to include these as we continue to develop the site. More features you want are:

“A 'Clear' button to input new sentences.”
“Make the Translation windows bigger.”
“A bigger font in the translation boxes.”

Keep visiting FreeTranslation.com to see how things improve over the coming weeks.

You can now also discuss your translations on our brand new Freetranslation.com Community website. Talk to hundreds of others to help you understand your translated languages better. We have introduced fantastic groups for you to learn a new language and to ask other community members for help with learning a new language. It’s completely FREE to join the new Language Community by FreeTranslation.com and be sure to leave feedback on the forum for more new ideas on how we can make FreeTranslation.com even better for you!

Be social with FreeTranslation.com

7/21/2009 06:10:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube have experienced rapid growth recently in terms of popularity and Internet traffic world wide.

If people don't speak the same languages within these communities, then FreeTranslation.com is perfect for offering a gist understanding of online conversations.
Simply copy and paste messages into our Free Text Translation box, select your languages and translate. Plus, we have even more languages available now.

For Facebook users, our Facebook Application gives you the ability to instantly translate your online conversations between you and your Facebook Friends, as well as translate your Wall posts.

FreeTranslation.com has become even more social with a Facebook Group and we're now on Twitter.

Keep up to date with the latest news, and give us your feedback

Follow us on Twitter.
Join our group in Facebook.

Don't forget with Chat Translator, you can translate your online instant messages so you can chat online and be social with friends in different languages.

New languages available on FreeTranslation.com

7/02/2009 11:57:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

Now you can translate 85 language pairs in 36 languages with FreeTranslation.com.

SDL FreeTranslation.com have partnered with Language Weaver to bring you more language pairs to translate, and more languages. With new languages available to translate to or from, you can now translate between 85 language pair possibilites.

Not only have we introduced new languages such as Thai, Hungarian, Urdu and Persian which translate to and from English, we have also included new language pairs which are not based on English. Pairs such as French to German, Italian to Spanish and Arabic to French are now available.
Go take a look.

You can now translate Polish, Korean, Hindi and many more! Take a look now by visiting FreeTranslation.com and selecting your source language.

These new languages are provided as part of our commitment to provide useful and free translation gadgets and tools to the world. You can see other tools and gadgets in our Shop.

Don't forget to Join us on Facebook, or Follow us on Twitter.

Happy Father's Day, Feliz Día del Padre, Alles Gute zum Vatertag

6/16/2009 05:16:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

Father's Day is a day to honour Fathers and is celebrated in many countries on the third Sunday in June. The day typically involves giving gifts and cards to Fathers and Grandfathers to thank them.

To help the world to celebrate Father's Day on the 21 June, FreeTranslation.com has translated popular phrases into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese and put them onto FreeTranslation.com.

Wish your Dad 'Happy Father's Day' in French, tell him he's the 'Best Dad' in Italian, or simply say 'Thank You' in Spanish.

Don't forget about our other translation tools available in our Shop. You can translate whilst surfing the web with our Accelerators, translate Microsoft Word documents with Desktop Translator, or translate whilst you chat online to friends with our Facebook Application or Chat Translator.

Happy Father's Day to all Fathers and Grandfathers.

Announcing our Survey Results and Prize Winner

4/29/2009 05:13:00 AM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager


Towards the end of last year, we ran a survey on FreeTranslation.com because we wanted to know more about you, our site visitors. We asked you a number of questions about your age, where you live, what you think of FreeTranslation.com and what else you’d like to see on the site.
In return, we ran a prize draw to win a 16gb iPod Nano, in a colour of your choice.

The lucky winner of our draw is Scott Kellas who has now received his black Nano, and said:

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and the good people at SDL and FreeTranslation.com! I have been using the site for just over a year now and have always been happy with the results I’ve been provided, I’ve even managed to impress some native speakers when I used the different languages FreeTranslation.com offers. When you contacted me initially, I admit I was a bit skeptical about having won the sweepstakes, as I so very rarely participate in online surveys. Well, after having received my 16 gigabyte IPOD Nano, I can attest to the legitimacy and can only say how thrilled I am that I actually won! I’m very excited by this, as I never win anything, much less anything from online.

Thanks to Scott for his quote, and most of all Congratulations! Here’s what we found out about our visitors from the survey:

Almost half of you live in the US, that's 46% of you. 12% live in the UK.

Most of you are aged 13 - 16 years old, but we now know that a lot of you are in your 20's and 30's.

A lot of you are Students, and use the site to help with your homework.

Most of you speak English as a native language, although 15% speak Spanish.

The majority of you are female – 56% in fact.

Almost half of you are repeat visitors – we thank you for this, look forward to welcoming you back, and remind you to tell your friends about us!

Many of you visited the site because you are learning a language. We now have some learning language tools specifically for you on the site. Read our article on what’s available, and check out the language learning resources we have especially for you.

We asked you if you were aware of the other services and tools we have available. Many of you were not. Don't forget that you can always find details of our free and premium products on our Shop page, where we also have a range of new tools and gadgets. You told us in the survey that you wanted to see more translation widgets, so we have obliged!

If there are other tools or services in general you'd like to see on FreeTranslation.com, then let us know by commenting on this article, or via our FreeTranslation.com Facebook Group.