Caching Your Content
What is Content Caching
The term "Caching" generally means that you keep a local copy of data on your hard-drive or server. With LanguageCache,
you keep keep a copy of the text of your website in the LanguageCache database. The LanguageCache user interface will read
the text on the webpage you request, you then type a translation in one of 25 different languages. The text is broken up in
sections so you can pick and choose which portions of the page you'd like to translate.
At this point, you'll also see the translation that Google Translate would offer you. If that translation is fine, you can
simply ignore it and move onto the next item. When the site loads, Google will do the work for you, allowing you to focus
your attention on more detailed portions of the content.
How does it get from LanguageCache to My Client's Website
Unlike SystransLinks, the user isn't redirected to a foreign server to be manipulated by a massive program. The content is already
on the user's machine when they open the page. You see, this is just text, no images, no Flash files, not video, no scripting, it
is simply text. Believe it or not, the translation of an entire page in 25 languages is normally smaller than the size of the web site's logo.
On each page in your website, your programmer or their developer pastes in a link. (it is the same link for every page, LanguageCache.com
will know which page is asking for the content).
The web browser automatically downloads it as it opens up the page. If the user selects
a language from the dropdown menu (or hyperlinks), a script runs which cycles through the webpage, replacing each section of content it
finds with the content you saved in the LanguageCache database. In an instant, normally less than 2 or 3 seconds, the page will simply flicker
for a second and all the text will be in the selected language. It's actually rather amazing.