Hello Bonjour is a new tool for localising website content.
At These Days a lot of the websites we build have a Flash or Flex interface with content fed in via XML documents. That makes it really easy to deploy the same website in multiple languages. You just pass in a localised XML file and voila, you’ve got a localised site.
Until now, we have been translating those XML files manually, but we’ve just made a little tool called Hello Bonjour that makes that process easier. The tool generates an interface with a Rich Text Editor for each node in your XML document. It shows the original copy and the translated copy side-by-side for easy comparison. You can customise it for each project with your client’s official font faces and brand colours to make it easy to generate content that fits the styleguide. There’s also a Find and Replace tool so you can quickly update URLs or other text throughout the entire document.
You can test out a demo here. Sharing is caring, so here’s the source code. Feel free to use it or adapt it to meet your needs.
Sweet!