Library Automation Staff Training & Support
Web Translation Forms
Translating via AltaVista's Babel Fish
Note: The example used below translates Central Michigan University Libraries' homepage. The red text below should be customized for the page you wish to translate.
To add a drop down menu that translates a web page, paste the following html code into an appropriate location/table in your page's html code. You may then format it's location and other attributes in an html editor such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage.
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function surfto(form)
{
var myindex=form.sel.selectedIndex
if (form.sel.options[myindex].value != "0") {
window.open(form.sel.options[myindex].value, target="main");}
}
</script>
<form name="formlang" id="formlang">
<div align="center"><p>
<strong>Translate
this site with "AltaVista Babel Fish" to:</strong>
<select name="sel" onchange="surfto(this.form)" size="1">
<option value="http://www.lib.cmich.edu/index.html">Select
language here</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_de">German</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_fr">French</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_zh">Chinese</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_it">Italian</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_ja">Japanese</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_ko">Korean</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_pt">Portuguese</option>
<option value="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&urltext=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.cmich.edu/&lp=en_es">Spanish</option>
</select></p>
</div>
</form>
