[thelist] Multilingual Sites: Best approach?

A Maynes andrew at milords.com
Fri Nov 4 08:00:05 CST 2005


Why not just do babel or altavista auto translates if you are not
bothered 

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Stevens [mailto:itsallaboutashlee at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 04 November 2005 12:23
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Multilingual Sites: Best approach?


Apologies, I'm hoping for a general opinion rather
than a technical step by step so left it reasonably
open - the site will have a lot of textual content,
the organisation of the site will be the same
throughout and simply the language of the content
itself will change dependent on which has been
selected.

There is no requirement for e-commerce or similarly complicating
factors, as far as I'm thinking, all I really need to accomplish what
I'm after is some way of storing the user's language preference for the
duration of their visit and referencing that to include the correct
text. It would be overly complicating to the user experience to have
user accounts with log ins and such like as the site will be used by a
fairly large number of people to check latest updates on a specific
subject. 

So to summarise, my initial thought:

Language selected > preference stored in cookie > when
page is called, cookie is accessed and preference used
to display correct text, pulled from a database

But if there is a better way of accomplishing this
without the use of a cookie, I'd be interested to hear
about it.

Thanks
Dave

--- A Maynes <andrew at milords.com> wrote:
> Not a lot of informatin for such a tall order!  What
> type of site is it?



		
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