For the most part and certainly here at WAU or while using Site Rubix, you won't really need to know much (if any) HTML at all. But, there have been many occasions when I have used a banner creator or header creator, for example, only to be given the code I need to put it on my website builder. The code didn't work.

For this example, I will use the language translator I prefer to use on almost every website I have ever built, Yahoo! Babel Fish Translator

This is a pretty nifty little addition to any website because it gives people who do not speak English the opportunity to read your website (or portions of it) in their own language.

Before I say any more about this website translator, let me say that since I don't speak languages other than English fluently enough to know the accuracy of the translation, I use it knowing that it has been around for so long that I am simply trusting it. One thing about this translator if you use it to promote WAU is that people around the world are able to translate the entire site in their own language. Likewise, when they click your affiliate link to visit WAU, they can also translate the WAU website.

Now, back to the issue of coding. Sometimes, for one reason or another, when you cut and paste the code from their site into yours, you can wind up with coding that doesn't work. I noticed with Babel that when I put it on my website using Site Rubix it had a lot of extra symbols in the string of coding that prevented it from working. I don't know why, but I know how to fix it.

Bring up two browsers and shrink the website builder to about half-screen and bring up your source page. In the other half of your screen, have the coding showing from the source where you copied it. Literally go through every symbol and every word to make sure that it matches. If there is something that is not in the original code you copied, simply delete it. Or, if something is missing just add it. Check again to make sure the Babel translator shows and is working on your website.

Before we see how it does work when the code is correct, let's take a look at how this particular code translates to this tutorial and does not work:

(I highlighted with red to show you the excess symbols that prevent this code from working correctly.)

<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service/babelfish1.js"></script> <noscript><a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Babel Fish</a></noscript>

OOPS! Time to do some changes here!

Yahoo! Babel Fish

See the difference?

Here is a screenshot of Babel Fish:

Directly below the Nyquil ad is where you click to get your translator for your own site.

In order to get your code which, by the way, may not paste correctly to your website, you may have to go over it in your source code tab in your website builder to correct it. To get your code, look for the link with a little fish that says: "Add Babel Fish Translation To Your Site", then choose which one you want.

If you have any problems with getting a string of code to work on your site, feel free to send me a message, include the code including the site where you got it and I will see if I can help you clean it up. Copy and paste the codeas it was given to you, but take off the first < and the last >! If you put that code with those two symbols left in, the e-mail or message system will often bring up what you want people to see instead of the coding. HTML coding sometimes works differently using different venues and it may work in your message but not on your website.

Have Fun!