The WebTranslateIt Blog

These last three weeks have been very busy at WebTranslateIt. We released several updates to WebTranslateIt’s visual identity. We hope you like it.

New logo

WebTranslateIt has a new logo. It’s simple and fun. It comes in two flavours.

If you’d like to use WebTranslateIt’s logo on your website, feel free to download a high resolution version on our Press page.

New home page

We updated our homepage. Some customers have already noticed it and sent us great feedback. It’s cleaner and does a better job at presenting what WebTranslateIt is. It also showcases some of our best customers and testimonials.

All the pages around it were completely revamped and rewritten like the Tour page, which presents WebTranslateIt’s management tools and translation tools.

We also added a new page called Tools for WebTranslateIt, which introduces a few tools built for WebTranslateIt. We’ll update this page regularly and will also showcase some of these tools in the blog.

New Help Section

The Help section received a complete overhaul.

This page should does a better job at helping users, pointing them to the FAQ, the documentation or filing a support request.

We also moved the documentation website to webtranslateit.com/docs and redesigned the documentation.

Finally, support requests now allow users to attach as many files as they want.

New About pages

People love to know who’s behind a website and what’s the story of its inception. So we redesigned the About page:

We also have a new Team page and Press page. Check them out!

WebTranslateIt in blue

This is probably the most important change for the users: we changed the background of the software’s interface from green to blue.

This change may seem small, but we were really careful on this choosing the new colour. We wanted it to be neutral while reflecting WebTranslateIt’s new visual identity.

We hope you like these changes. Don’t hesitate to send us an e-mail if you have any feedback.

I released a new version of the web_translate_it gem, the open-source synchronization tool for Web Translate It.

This new version fixes an issue with connections to WebTranslateIt hanging indefinitely when running on ruby 2.0.

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Install or Upgrade

To install web_translate_it, please refer to the gem documentation.

As usual, upgrade web_translate_it to its latest version by typing in a terminal: gem install web_translate_it.

We just released a batch of improvements to the Batch Operations feature in WebTranslateIt.

Batch Operations is a feature on WebTranslateIt which lets you update a batch of segments in just a few clicks.

This new release focused on making it easier to run a new batch operation, as well as providing better feedback to the user.

Start a batch operation

We completely revamped the page to start a batch operation. It now lets you see how many segments and which segments will be updated by the batch operation.

If you select a batch operation updating translations, a third option lets you chose if you want to perform a batch operation in the current language or in all languages.

Batch Operation status

A progress bar now lets you see the status of each of you batch operations.

You can now see if your batch operation is currently running or has finished.

Review changes

After your batch operation has finished running a link invites you to review the changes made:

Your batch operations are now logged to your project Activity Feed:

You can also review the details of the changes:

New filter: Filter by changes made a Batch Operation

But that’s not it. Now translation changes made via a batch operation appear as such in the translation history.

And translations are now filterable by “last edited via a batch operation” in the translation interface.

We hope you will find this improvement useful. Thank you for using WebTranslateIt.

I released a new version of the web_translate_it gem, the open-source synchronization tool for Web Translate It.

This new version fixes an issue connecting securely to WebTranslateIt on some versions of ruby.

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Install or Upgrade

To install web_translate_it, please refer to the gem documentation.

As usual, upgrade web_translate_it to its latest version by typing in a terminal: gem install web_translate_it.

We added a bunch of new features and refinements to the interface during these last two weeks.

Operations in all locales (for managers)

Managers can now perform some operations in all locales:

Filter segments last updated by… the API

The new “last updated by” filter introduced a few weeks ago is immensely useful. It lets you filter segments by who translated it last. We added a new option to this filter which lets you filter segments by the segments which were last updated by the API.

Term and TermTranslation autocompletion

This is one of my favourite new feature. When adding a new term to the TermBase, you can now ask WebTranslateIt to auto-complete its definition and part-of-speech fields (if your source language is compatible with our dictionaries)

Just click on “autocomplete term” to automatically complete the definition and part-of-speech.

You can then review and amend the definition, and save the term.

The same suggestions system exists for completing term translations.

Better interface for creating and updating a segment

Finally, we also refined the interface for creating and updating a segment. These actions should now report better error messages, and you can now also review the segment you just added or removed

I hope you will find these improvements useful. Thank you for using WebTranslateIt.