Yes indeed, Myatu’s is available on your iPhone, G1 and a number of other mobile phones thanks to a wonderful WordPress plug-in from Crowd Favorite: Mobile WordPress Edition.
Not only does it provide easier viewing on a mobile phone, it also strips everything down to the bare essentials so it is quick to load and won’t hurt your web browsing limits.
Specific to Myatu’s, the included Carrington Mobile theme has been modified to include the option to translate the articles on your mobile phone, as well as the inclusion of a modified DISQUS style-sheet to fit the width of popular mobile phones.
I wanted to make sure that I was not leaving out a potential international audience. For example, one of the forums I frequent a lot belongs to a French company.
Luckily, WordPress has a plethora of translation plug-ins and two of them caught my eye: Global Translator by Davide Pozza and Transposh by Team Transposh.
Both are excellent plug-ins, but they also suffer from one drawback: it fills your sidebar (widget) with 40-some flags or you have a silly drop down box. I wanted a more elegant option, and this is how I’ve managed to do this. View Full Article »
Well, I’ve finally managed to get my personal website back up and running. I really haven’t had the time to do this until recently, and I wanted to do it right.
It’s based off WordPress this time, instead of my previous Joomla. An entire CMS was a bit too heavy for the occasional articles I write, but it certainly was a good experience!
The “monochrome” used has been created by mono-lab. Being the usual me, I have modified it quite a lot to fit my personal taste and the added widgets and other gadgetry hidden inside this website.
For instance, take a look at your right. In fact, why not click the “Translate this” link right now and see what happens. This nifty little trick will translate a web pages in-situ. Obviously, it is not done by a human translator so you will certainly encounter some quirky translations. Nevertheless, it can still help those who do not read English very well (and that’s not to be offensive!).
I’ll provide some more details on how I implemented this plugin from Transposh in a non-widget style with WordPress in another article. For now, I just want to get this first post out of the… yeah, what really? Door?
For those who know the inside joke: “Champagne?”
