Connect and translate your Readme website with Smartcat

Overview

You can connect your Readme website to Smartcat and translate it into up to 280 languages with AI translation. This guide walks you through translating your Readme pages, reviewing the results in the CAT editor, and publishing the translated version to your site.

Translate your Readme website

1. Open your Workspace and click the Translate a website shortcut

2. Specify both the source and the target languages. You can select multiple languages if you need

3. In the website URL field, paste the URL of your Readme page

4. Click Preview my website

5. Smartcat opens the translated version of your Readme page

6. Use the toolbar above to switch between languages

7. Adjust the preview settings using the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen

8. In the Translation mode section, specify how the translation is rendered for your website visitors

9. On the Language selector tab, choose how the language selector best fits your Readme page design

10. On the Preview settings tab, specify how to view the translated page

11. In Publish settings, select your Published Languages and copy the JavaScript code for publishing your translated page

Smartcat now shows a live preview of your translated Readme website.

Review and edit the translation

1. To review the translation, click Edit. This opens the CAT editor

2. Review your translation, which is split automatically into segments. You can make edits here. Confirm each segment translation before moving to the next

3. To return to your website preview, click Back

Your reviewed translation is ready to publish.

Publish your translated website

1. From the preview, publish your website translation by clicking the button next to the address field

2. Click Copy code to save the code to the clipboard

📌 Add Smartcat's code snippet to the header of the page to ensure the Smartcat website translator works correctly.

1. In Readme, open the Custom Stylesheets section and select the Include Tags tab

2. Paste your code into the empty space

3. Once the code has been added, click Validate and continue in Smartcat

Your Readme website now serves the translated pages to your visitors.