Hi Joe, this is not a request for a feature, but to change your site www.mojoportal.com.

Can you please remove the google translation bar on top of the pages.

It is very annoying, it keeps coming up on every page, but after a second or so after the page is loaded and this pushes the rest of the page down about a centimeter. This timing is so stupid that very often when i have decided to click on something, the page moves and I end up clicking on something else instead. Happens all the time!

Also, it makes your site look worse since the background becomes unaligned with the center portion of the site.

Besides that it is of very low value I think. I guess that very very few of your visitors are in need of this translation service, and those who are can probably invoke a translator by themselves. If you _must_ have this feature, i suggest that you place it on the side. Look at http://i7media.net Excellent implementation!

Just my 2c.
Anyone agrees?

BR
/Mats

I use mostly IE8, but also Firefox 3.6.

I do not have Google Toolbar installed and the behaviour is exaktly the same on 4 different computers and with different user logged on. If I click the X at the right, the toolbar disappears, but if I reload the page or go to another one it reappears again, but as I said after about half a second to a second after the page has loaded. Exactly the same bahaviour if I click the button "Inaktivera översättning av engelska" (= "Inactivate Translation of English" :-) ).

Now I tried the same with Firefox. Clicking on the disable button makes the toolbar go away permanently it seems. Also after closing the browser and reopening it. However, in the status bar there is a message saying "Fetching data from translate.googleapis.com" a looong time.

Cannot make it go away with IE8 though. I do not have any special configuration at all. Well it irritates me and now I have said so.

The POSITIVE side of this ist that when I was going to click the tab "Community", i instead clicked the link Site Office, which i probably hadn't found otherwise .

What is Site Office?
It looks lika a cool feature that is not quite ready. Is it a long ago started project that now is postponed infinitely or what?

/Mats

I just figured it out, it seems if I change my browser language preference to something other than English then the google translate gets much more aggressive and won't go away. Maybe it knows the site is in English and is too pushy to help users with something other than English as their browser language preference.

I bet Joe has not noticed this just as I had not noticed it because most users in the US including Joe have their browser set to English?

-Steve