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Site translators are the secret sauce that make Zotero so easy to use. Here you'll find the documentation to get you started creating your own site translators.
How to Write a Zotero Translator
A fairly comprehensive tutorial for beginners, written by Adam Crymble, describing how to write a translator using Scaffold. Limited to screen scrapers. Uses downlevel tools.
How to Write a Zotero Translator++ (IN PROGRESS)
Attempts to update Crymble (with same limitations, i.e. uses Scaffold to write a screenscaper), and eventually wikify Crymble, using uplevel tools. Currently it is merely a list of deltas to Crymble, so one will unfortunately need to work with both resources open.
Scaffold: an IDE for Zotero translators (only compatible with Zotero 1.0.x)
Scaffold is a Firefox extension designed to help you write translators. Some people find it worthwhile to keep a separate Firefox profile running Zotero 1.0 and Scaffold if they are writing translators under Windows. (As of 1 Jul 2010, an unofficial build of Scaffold 2.0 is available here. Scaffold 2.0 will be available from zotero.org in the near future.)
Zotero Translators - The Missing Manual This missing manual aims to expand on Adam Crymble's introductory tutorial, discussing the functions in Zotero.Utilities, describing how translators can call other translators, and more.
A more technical (but fairly outdated) guide additionally covering the creation of import and export translators can be found here