Peter De Boos DRUPAL TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT: THE EASY WAY DRUPAL = - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Peter De Boos DRUPAL TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT: THE EASY WAY

DRUPAL = MULTILINGUAL FRIENDLY • Drupal = very good to build multilingually structured web sites But… • Actual translation process = time- and cost-consuming April 2013 VISUAL & COMMUNICATION CONCEPT FOR BIOCARTIS' MDX SYSTEM 2

DRUPAL TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT: THE OLD WAY

IT WAS CUMBERSOME… • Export manually content to be translated in a format that translators can process • Send the exported content to translators, via email • Quality-check the translations when ready • Copy-paste translations back into Drupal, language by language • Edit language pages to correct layout errors • Publish translated pages DRUPAL TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT: THE OLD WAY 4

THE COST- AND TIME-EFFICIENT WAY 5

OUT OF THE BOX • Light Drupal plugin to install (Beebox for Drupal) • The Drupal-Beebox solution: – Tracks content additions and updates, down to sentence level – Recycles existing translations – Sends selected content to Connexion or your translation provider – Pushes translated content back to Drupal, automatically or supervised – Offers possible integration of Machine Translation – Optimises translation time and cost THE COST- AND TIME-EFFICIENT WAY 6

HOW DOES IT WORK? THE COST- AND TIME-EFFICIENT WAY 7

BENEFITS • Happy Webmaster & CFO: – Easy start: download & install plugin – Automated management of full entire translation life-cycle – European translation best practices ( vs. US ‘one-target-only’ ) – ‘The more you translate, the less you need to translate’ – Obvious translation time and cost optimisation • Fast ROI: – Drupal but also Social Engine, EpiServer, Kentico, Sharepoint, Sitecore, Sitefinity, WordPress and more to come – Can support any customer proprietary systems – Can be used to all your other (non-web) translation needs THE COST- AND TIME-EFFICIENT WAY 8

1-MONTH FREE TRIAL • Free of charge – no commitment – Only possible costs • If not done by your team: Initial setup in Drupal • Discounted translation costs • Initial setup by your team – Basic Drupal 7 plug-in installation – easily done by your IT – ½ hour phone expert support free of cost • Translation service – Discounted rates: -10% + 100 words for free into one language. – Price quotation before starting THE COST- AND TIME-EFFICIENT WAY 9

MORE INFORMATION More about Connexion’s eCommunication, print & language services: www.connexion.eu DRUPAL TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT: THE EASY WAY 10