You might be an aspiring blogging superstar or well on course for your 500,000^th unique monthly visitor, but the one thing all bloggers have in common is that they are writing for a global audience.

Even if you do only share your unique knowledge and insight with the world in English, the fact is that anyone from Miami to Mozambique can end up perusing your carefully crafted pages…and this is why there is a strong argument for adopting a multilingual blogging strategy.

Of course, if you are just a casual blogger with no intention of making money from your hobby, then you’ll probably get by just fine in English. But if revenue is the name of the game, then it might just be worth your while going down the multilingual route.

75% of the Earth’s population speak no English which is a lot of people for monolingual bloggers to be missing out on. English is the most widely spoken second language, which is why you’ll often see a European blog with a side-by-side translation of the content – the original post in German, French, Italian…whatever the native language is, and one in English. With that in mind, would a similar setup benefit your English-language blog?

Multilingual blogging may sound like a rather daunting prospect at first. If you – like most native English speakers – don’t speak any other languages, then that’s your first problem. If you happen to speak one or two other languages, you probably don’t want to spend all your time translating your posts.

The rise of the machines…

Everyone’s probably copy/pasted a paragraph or two into Google translate at some point, either out of curiosity or because they genuinely want to know what something says on a foreign website. The truth is, Google translate isn’t actually all that bad if you’re not too fussy about grammatical correctness and the nuance of meaning. In other words, Google can get the general gist of a foreign language message fine.

But before you consider using this to translate your precious blog posts, you need to enhance your changes of hitting a good machine translation. And this all begins with how you write your English post in the first place.

Control your language…

Google translate is good, but it can’t decipher slang, colloquialisms or words that have multiple meanings. So rather than ‘going bonkers’, perhaps it’s best ‘going mad’…and you’re best using ‘food’ over ‘chow’ or ‘grub’.

A controlled English language model may restrict your creativity, but it will help to ensure that any subsequent machine translation is accurate.

English often has what is known as an ‘excess of words’ for one concept (e.g. ‘dog’, ‘mutt’, ‘hound’) as well as allowing nouns to be used as verbs (e.g. ‘race’ – ‘to race’ and ‘in a race’).

Through using a controlled language approach, each word can only have one meaning. Once you learn what words Google translate likes and what it doesn’t, you can build a glossary of the best terms to use.

Blogging platforms such as WordPress also have translation plugins available, so that when the plugin is installed, it generates a series of national flag icons which the user can click to automatically translate the content into their desired language.

Humans to the rescue…

If you’re not entirely comfortable with a user-generated translation approach and would rather have the content machine-translated yourself, you can pay for the services of a native-speaking translator who will essentially proofread and edit the text. Given that the machine translation will be reasonably accurate, all the human has to do is check for errors and help avoid any potentially embarrassing lexical slipups. This means you can maintain the creative dexterity of your English blog content.

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Today I am very proud to announce the release of my first free Worpress theme - Zexee!

It is a free, two column WordPress theme originally based on The Design Superhero’s previous design.

The theme is provided to users under the open source GNU General Public License. That means, you can use it for personal as well as commercial purposes. I am releasing the theme via one of the very popular design blog, Six Revisions.

Full view of the design

Demo and Download

• Download it from Six Revisions
• Checkout the Live Demo

What do you think about the theme? Cool or no cool? Please write a comment and let me know.

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A New Year is always a good reason to begin something new or to improvise the existing one. In this New Year, I am extremely happy to introduce to you the whole new ‘The Design Superhero’!.

I hope all of you are having a great holiday season. For me, the holidays are busier than ever! However, I am very much excited today.

It’s been many months since I have been planning for a redesign. At last here it is. As usual, I still have a lot more ideas and modifications to be incorporated in the site.

How the website is ‘the Whole New’?

• Brand new design; 99% texturified!
• Designed using 960.gs and built using HTML5 and CSS3.
• More focus on the content and readability. Less distractions
• Added new pages and some subpages including a new About page, Service Offering page and a Portfolio(Still incomplete)
• More frequent updates, more freebies (future plans!)

What is so exciting about it?

I left my full-time job last month and moved back to my home town to work independently. Yes, it is exciting for me. I have always had this dream of working independently. Now I have no boss to report to! yay! 

Well, now on TDS is not only a design blog, but my portfolio website too. (Actually when I had started TDS in late 2007, it was my portfolio, not a blog). I am going to use TDS to promote my services as well.

Services? What are they?

Right from Project planning to Marketing, I provide services as a solution to anything and everything in a web development project. Please check my services page for more details. Nowadays I am more concentrating in WordPress projects. Are you looking for a WordPress Designer cum Developer? I am your man, contact me… 

The Year 2010

I am really looking forward to this year. This redesigning and moving to freelancing were two of my New Year resolutions for 2009 and I am glad I could achieve them. If you have never tried making one, get a resolution list for this year and stick to it. It really works.

I wish you all a Very Happy and Productive New year

What do you think about the new design? How do you rate it? Please comment on this post and let me know. Your thoughts and suggestions are very valuable to me.

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Whether you use Twitter to promote your business or simply to enhance your social life, it’s vital your Twitter page looks its best to attract those all-important followers. With Twitter receiving 55 million visitors every single month, you’ll need more than regular tweets to stand out from the crowd! A great Twitter background is a key ingredient in creating a Twitter page that’s both eye-catching and true to your personality or brand image.

There are literally hundreds of websites out there providing Twitter backgrounds – some are very good, others are terrible! We’ve done the hard work for you: we’ve trawled through (what seems like) millions of backgrounds to find the 35 coolest ones around. Some are free to use, others are available to purchase for a small fee, and others still are strictly for inspiration only. You’re bound to find one that’s perfect for you, helping you transform your Twitter page into a masterpiece of social networking!

1. Photoshop

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21. Life Makers

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24. Wolf

25. New

26. Deep Garden II

27. Siberian Tiger

28. Typographic

29. Twitter-1

30. Zatun

31. Carr Rays

32. Vintage High Rise

33. Laquesefue

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About The Author

 When he’s not writing about HP Laserjet cartridges, Tom Walker enjoys discovering and trying out new gadgets as well as being up to date on Twitter. Tom currently writes for a leading printer cartridge supplier called Cartridge Save which is based in Manchester, England.

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. The winners have been chosen!
The winners will be getting  a license of Fanurio each.

The winners of the giveaway are:

Insic

Ruben

Selection Process

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After a while here again a comment-to-win contest in TheDesignSuperhero . This time we are giving away licenses of Fanurio 2.0 to two winners.

Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices.

How special is Fanurio?

Take a look at it’s feature list. It has everything you would need to manage your freelance projects.

• Tracks the time you are spending on each project
• Generates bills accordingly
• Creates invoices
• Analyzes projects and generates overall reports.

Fanurio is a very light weight application built using Java technology which enables it to run on Windows, Mac OS X including Leopard, Linux and other flavors of Unix.

Get in to the contest, right away…

All you have to do is just to leave your comment here. You have time till Wednesday, 3rd June 2009.

Enjoy…

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. The winners have been chosen!
The winners of the giveaway are:

Adam Covati

Sharp Tooth

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