Greater language control for international sites

FeedBlitz has extended its support for multiple languages to enable publishers to pre-select the language of the subscription interface.  By default FeedBlitz picks up the language to use from the visitor's browser or when the user picks a language from the list at the foot of the form. Great, right?

But what if you're running a French language site in Italy?  Most of your visitors will be on Italian machines with the Italian language as the default, but your site is for Francophones and you want to set the default language used on your site to be French by default.

Now you can simply add a parameter to the standard FeedBlitz form or subscription URL called "Lang" without the quotes, and give it the ISO 2 letter country code you want to use by default.  So, for example:

Here's the FeedBlitz News standard subscription form: http://www.feedblitz.com/f?sub=84
And here it is in French: http://www.feedblitz.com/f?sub=84&lang=FR
Italiano: http://www.feedblitz.com/f?sub=84&lang=IT
Dutch: http://www.feedblitz.com/f?Sub=84&lang=NL
etc.

No matter what, the user can always override the default choice by clicking their preferred language at the bottom of the page, and - if they do that - their choice overrides the language parameter set in the form. But now you can better tune the subscription experience for your visitors, and that's a Good Thing.

   

Italiano!

"Grazie" to Stefano Cazzani at http://www.vertigonet.it/ for our new Italian subscriber pages! Dutch will be next.

If you'd like to volunteer to translate our subscriber pages (about 280 strings) into your language, please write to us at the support address.

   

FeedBlitz en Français!

Following last week's release of our Portuguese subscriber pages, I'm delighted to be able to thank Pierre Carnicelli (visit his site at http://www.carnicelli.eu/) for our newly released French version. We have the Spanish spreadsheet already out to a volunteer, but that still leaves many languages out there. Want to have a go?

We can also handle non-latin character sets, so we can support translations into asian, cyrillic, arabic and other non-European scripts. So if you want to volunteer, email me at phil @ feedblitz.com (but wait for our new inbound email server to be up and running first!).

   

FeedBlitz Subscriber Pages Translated for Brazilian Readers

A brief note to remark that our subscriber facing pages, such as the pages used in the subscription and unsubscribe processes, are now available in Brazilian Portuguese. We have some very large lists from Brazil, and with this change we'll make FeedBlitz much more accessible to Brazilian subscribers.

FeedBlitz automatically detects Portuguese subscribers, but visitors can also override the language selection using the links at the foot of the relevant pages. My thanks to Marcelo Vitorino over at http://www.insightpublicidade.com.br/ for his help actually doing the translating.

Want your language?

If you would like to volunteer to translate the FeedBlitz subscriber pages into your language, drop me a note at phil @ you know where. There are about 250 strings to translate, and we will reward you with publicity in the FeedBlitz blog like this and in the footer of the translated pages for as long as we use your text. It's entirely voluntary, but if you'd like to help for your language write in. The first one to send back a completed spreadsheet wins :-)