This isn't strictly a CF related question but things have been kinda quiet around here so I figure I'm not going to interrupting anybody and maybe we can get some kind of discussion going on around here...
What i am wondering is, on a website that is presenting content in various languages is it best to treat the content entirely separately or do you 'backfill' pages that might be missing in a particular language? Let me add some context... This is a website that is driven out of a CMS and let's make the (perhaps rash) assumption that there is a default language that all pages are initially created in. So, we're coming in and retrofitting mufti-language support for an existing website. This process can obviously take a lot of time but in the meantime the client is keen to show off at the least the beginnings of this new feature, so we have a site that has lots of pages but only some of which have been translated. My thinking is that when building the navigation and extracting the content for an alternate language then if you hit a page for which there is no content in that alternate language we will pick up the content from the default language content and present that - perhaps with an annotation explaining the reason they are seeing englsh rather than french for example. The alternative is to build just the navigation for the existing alternate language pages. That just feels wrong to me but I've been known to be mistaken in the past... To be honest I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this question but I am very interested to hear from anyone who has had to deal with this kind of problem in the past - or in the present for that matter! Cheers, Brett B) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
