If you run a website or a blog, these days, it becomes almost a necessity to make sure that your web site or blog can be read by people around the world. And that means to make sure your website or blog is available in many different languages other than English. Do you have to learn all those languages to make your website available in all those languages? Of course, not.

Google Translate gadget is a simple web gadget that you can customize and add to your website that automatically translates your web pages to many different languages.

As of this writing Google Translate Gadget supports 35 different languages and the cool thing about this gadget is that it doesn’t take much page real-estate on your web page. Google Translate Gadget has just a simple logo and a dropdown list of languages you can choose from. If you’ve been using any other translation gadgets/widgets you might have to read this article to make sure you are using the one that takes less screen space and doesn’t download 35 different flag images to represent each language.

Follow these steps to add multiple language support to your website or blog using Google Translate Gadget,

Step-1: Visit the Google Translate Gadget page

Visit the Google Translate Gadget page and click on the “Add to your webpage” button.

Step-2: Customize the look and feel of Google Translate Gadget

Customize the Google Translate Gadget to fit to your web page’s needs by giving it a title, width, height, border and language. Hit the “Preview Changes” button to get a sneak preview of your customized Google Translate Gadget.

Step-3: Get the code to add multi-language support to your website

Once you are happy with the customization of your gadget, hit the “Get the code” button to get the HTML code to add to your website.

Step-4: Copy and paste the HTML code

Copy the HTML code that’s generated and place the code on your website where you want the Google Translate Gadget to appear.

That’s all about translating your website into many different languages using the simple Google Translate Gadget.

The next time when a visitor from Spain, for example, visits your website and if they prefer to see your website in Spanish all they have to do is to select “Espanol” as the language on the Google Translate Gadget and Google Translate will translate your website from English to Spanish and will render the Spanish version of your website.

I hope you find this useful to translate your websites into different languages. If you have any questions/comments regarding this please make sure to let us know in comments.

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