isiZulu.net is a collaborative Zulu/English online dictionary. It has a forum where everyone (that is YOU!) can contribute new entries. It also tries to be a place to promote the Zulu language and to build up a modern vocabulary. To achieve that it depends on your input and feedback.
isiZulu.net is not a full text translator. However, it tries to translate simple phrases and compound Zulu words (isiZulu is a very "computer-friendly" language in this regard). It is also not a Babelfish, so don't try to feed it with German, Afrikaans or Kiswahili words.
This dictionary started out as an idée fixe shortly after my first visit to South Africa in late 2003 where I had set my mind on wanting to learn Zulu. Obviously there were no isiZulu evening classes up here in Germany, so I bought some course books from "teach yourself" and African Voices and Doke's bulky but dusty printed Zulu/English dictionary (aka Ye Olde Doke, still unfortunately the main reference for the database).
After a while I noticed that there was no isiZulu online dictionary around, just a few word lists and one or two dumb web frontends. So I decided to develop one myself. It should have a real database behind it, some more or less intelligent lookup code accounting for the agglutinative nature of isiZulu, and a forum to allow users to contribute entries. The latter was an idea that I actually borrowed from the LEO guys. :-)
Lazy as I am, I didn't feel like coming up with a database schema of my own. Looking for someone who had already done that for me, I stumbled across David Joffe's dictionary compilation software TshwaneLex. It was about as beta as my site at that time, which I thought were best preconditions for a beta-testing and cross-referencing agreement. :-)
African Voices kindly allowed me to use their course vocabulary as an "initial stuffing" for my database. And after a couple of weeks of typing and coding like crazy, isiZulu.net saw the light of day. It's happily online since June 6, 2004, currently (2009) channelling a few thousand lookups a day through about 200 kB of home-grown Perl code (no PHP inside!).
Just me and a few regular expressions. :-) And you folks on the forum of course!