If you've ever thought about make your Joomla website multilingual you know how painful can be creating a Joomla translation. We offer way of make your Joomla website multilingual easy and quickly. SEF Translate - Joomla software for automatically website translation helps to add Joomla multiple languages in a matter of few minutes.
The version of SEF Translate 3.5.1 includes new translation method - Instant Joomla translation, this makes translating of Joomla websites even more easy and comfortable. So at this moment SEF Translate - Joomla software for automatically website translation, has three different methods for translating websites Joomla:
Let's take a closer look on them and decide in what case which Joomla translation method is the most suitable.
Instant Joomla translation method is the most easy and quickly automatic Joomla translation method on the market. With its help you can make Joomla website multilingual literally in few minutes. You just need to install SEF Translate component and module, then specify languages (flags and drop-down list), module position and pages where module will appear. Instant translation method is made on the base of Google Translate and doesn't require any additional configuration. This Joomla translation method doesn't use cache and translates pages on fly, so the speed of translation may be a little lower comparatively to Redirect method which uses cache functions.
jQuery Joomla translation method is similar to Instant Joomla translation, the only difference between them that jQuery translation method can use not only Google Translate, but also Bing Translator. So, if for some reasons your site doesn't support by Google Translate, you can choose Bing translating servises. Bing provides free quota on translating whereas Google offers only paid subscription. jQuery Joomla translation method requires additional configuration in settings of SEF Translate (inserting Google or Bing API). Cache saving features aren't available.
Redirect Joomla translation method is the most comprehensive method for Joomla multilingual websites, but it requires additional configurations. Yet the advantages of this Joomla translation method will be much bigger than initial difficulties with installation. Also we've written detailed documentation and provide assistance in configuration if something isn't clear for you.
So advantages of Redirect Joomla translation method are as following:
Let's summarise what was described above in a form of table:
Easiness in configuring | Speed of translation (cache enabled) | SEO Features | Ability to edit automatically translated pages and URLs | |
Instant | High | Medium | Low | No |
jQuery | Medium | Medium | Low | No |
Redirect | Low | High | High | Yes |
So, now you can choose what method will be the best for you and most appropriate for your Joomla website. If you want free consultation or not sure what version of SEF Translate you need, please contact us via form in the right bottom. Compare SEF Translate versions here.