If you’re struggling to maintain your content in a multilingual CMS, we feel your pain. It’s a constantly moving target and as your content grows, so does the problem.

The good news is, help is here and it’s called Translation Proxy. The proxy service places a “proxy” layer between your website and your users.

The user’s language browser preference is automatically selected, and your original content is translated in real time using your existing Translation Memories. If you have in-house translators, you can combine the proxy solution with our In-House Translation solution.

Translation Proxy works best for simple static websites and allows you to go multilingual faster than any other option. However, for more complex websites you should consider CMS Integration, which works better with customer portals and PIMS. For example, if your site contains different content for local markets you may find that a conventional multilingual CMS like Drupal or PIMS like Salsify give you more flexibility.

We know that creating and managing a multilingual website can be difficult, but it is very important to update content and keep branding consistent on a global scale.  The beauty of the proxy service is that once you’ve updated content on your primary website it will effortlessly update your multilingual sites. You can even notify the proxy service to ignore specific content. This can be useful when you have a tagline or branded phrase that should only ever be conveyed in the primary language.

• Compared with traditional methods it offers a very quick way to translate multilingual websites
• There is minimal IT involvement because there is no software or hardware to install
• You can leverage your main site’s interactive functionality