[thelist] Multilingual Sites: Best approach?

[Dave Stevens]

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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