I’m consolidating some blogs here to make it easier to manage things. And a lot cheaper as with one blog you only need one backup solution, and so on.
I have the site working in English and Welsh parts at the moment. The design is a bit sparse, but I can pretty it up later.
One of the things that makes moving the Welsh content here practical is the Vocab plugin from the Port Technolegau Iaith Cenedlaethol Cymru. It’s a similar button to the Vocab butt you can see on Cymru Fyw or Golwg 360. Click on it and JavaScript Magic highlights words and gives help with definitions when you mouseover them. It’s a lot easier than manually writing a geirfa or using a glossary plug-in to manually highlight and define terms.
It’s something you can easily add to your own site. You’ll need to register for an API key here. This is so Bangor University can keep track of who is using it, and also make sure that it’s not getting abused.
Next you paste this bit of code:
<script type='text/javascript'>
var vocabConfig = {
apikey : 'EICH_ALLWEDD_API',
language : 'cy',
start : 'body'
};
</script>
<script type='text/javascript' language='javascript' src='http://api.techiaith.org/vocab/ui/vocab/vocab.nocache.js'></script>
EICH_ALLWEDD_API is your API key. The best place for this in the is the <head> of the template, but I don’t think it has to be there.
Next where you want the button to appear you paste this:
<div class="vocab_button"></div>
I’ve put it in a widget that only appears on the Welsh language pages here. So if you visit a Welsh page, then you’ll see the Vocab button.
It’ll look something like this:
Fydd e ddim yn gwneud llawer, achos tudalen Saesneg yw hyn, but you’ll at least see it working on a couple of things here.
The page with all the details is at http://techiaith.cymru/ategion/vocab/
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