Advice on multilingual website

[VanTheManiac]

I'm about to convert a website for a company and need some advice how to solve their needs for multiple languages on the website.
They want to be able to have quite a few languages in the long run and therefor need a CMS that will handle this smooth.
In some languages they will only have < 5 pages and for english they will have 30-50 pages.

I'm new to CMS Made Simple but I've done some tests (added the Babel-module) and read some discussion regarding multiple languages and saw some posts about problem when the site structure differs between languages.

What is the best way to go? Any advice?

Thanks!

[reneh]

Two nice treads from forum:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 805.0.html

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 886.0.html

[VanTheManiac]

Thanks! Worked fine using this!

I will add some functionality to the site adding some own plugins and they will output some content as well.
This will mainly be short sentences or just words for headers and links in output from the database and I need a good way to handle the translation for each language. I don't want to copy the plugins and save them with a new language...
Is there a smart way to maintain these short content blocks in CMS Made Simple?

Under the babel-module I see a lang directory containing a language file where a lang array is filled with its words and content.
I know this would work but I'm curious if there's a nice module to use so that the users of the CMS could change all content, even the words and lines from my plugins.

Any ideas?
Thanks!