>Hi all,
>Does anyone out there have any good strategies for the creation of dual
>language websites. I hope to modify our current site to accommodate this
>rather than design a new site from scratch.
>Suggestions please for:
>Directory structures
>File names
>Separate servers?
>How do you keep it all up to date?
>Anything else?
Hi Dave
You should look into "language negotiation". i.e. in a browser you can
choose your preferred language (Edit Preferences -> Languages in Netscape).
To support this you can configure your server to serve welsh or english
pages, typically based on the file name (e.g. intro.html by default,
intro.fr.html if French is selected in the browser - I'm afraid I don't know
the lkanguage code for Welsh, and its not available in my browser.)
Language negotiation should also be useful for language-specific
navigational icons.
I don't know if language negotiation is supported in your server -
which I believe is a Novell server.
Language metadata will be important e.g. to support language-specific
searches.
You should find further information on EU pages e.g. see
http://www.echo.lu/ (especially http://www2.echo.lu/langeng/en/lehome.html)
and the W3C internationalisation pages.
Hope this is helpful.
Brian Kelly
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