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I am in the process of starting a small company that is specialised in the Eclipse platform. I managed to put together this site as a part-time execise over the last couple of weeks. I'm very impressed about the quality of the software and the ease with which one can do all the things needed for such a small site - you really live up to the name "... made simple"... I have previously tried to use typo3 and that was no picnic 

I miss only on thing: multi-language support as I want to translate the site into Danish as well.. and later Sweedish and Norwegian. For now I have just English.

rcp-company.com

/tonny

Hi Tonny,

I was also looking for info on multi-language translations, and I had made a note of this:

Re: Multilingual web site
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 008.0.html

« Reply #2 on: 04 Apr 2006, 11:01 »

I was using this hack:
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/multilang/
It's a temporary solution.  Make sure to read the readme file before the install.
view on : http://nishiobudo.org.ua, top right corner

Hope this helps!

WebGirl

Hi WebGirl,

I have evaluated the multilang version, but it has some problems with search engines, that makes it unsuitable for me - all language variants share the same URL, which breaks search engines as they index by the URL. Thanks for the tips though.

/tonny -

Hi all,

I have just extended my site with Danish a well so you can choose the language you like - well English and Danish for now. I plan to extend the languages to Sweedish and Norwegian as well in the future.

I'm working on the server setup for the site so a number of domain names point to the site. After that I want to change the returned URL so it reflects the language. More on that later.

What do you think the way the language switch works? Currently it always returns to the root of the content hierarchy (the home page), or should one always switch to the same page in the other language?

/tonny

Hi Tonny!

I'm very impressed - the language buttons work great, and the website looks very smart - congratulations!

One suggestion - add 'ALT' tags to your images if possible in the header - if someone is on dial-up or is sight-impaired or has images turned off, it makes it easier to see what the 'description' of the image is.  You can also use the alt tag in this way to write more info about your company, so people have something to read while the images load.

Cheers
WebGirl!

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to do that.

I guess I will have to look into the relevant tags to see how to do that consistently - e.g. the right part of the header is served via {random_image}..

/tonny

Maybe someone on the forum here knows how to add an ALT tag or Description to your {random_image} tag.

Fingers' crossed!

cheers
WebGirl