From: "Mattias Konradsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a) Should the url for a document in different languages be the same or > different, ie "document.html/sida.html" vs > "document.html?langID=1/document.html?langID=2" I'm leaning towards the > second alternative since it's easier to manage but I could be wrong on this.
If they are different, they surely should not be different with ?langID=anything. Differentiation should be done with /english or /french or things like that, so that the URL is products/food/potatoes/english or /english/products/food/potatoes. /mycmsscript.php&document=58765765&language=567&foobar=6787 is ugly and confusing and lowers the usability of a site. When doing language aware sites I think the language should be selected automatically from the languages selected in the browser, but that it's also important to have a possibility to select langauges manually, by a drop down box, for example. http://www.energy-plus.org/ comes to mind, I think it's done that way if I remember correctly. > b) documents resides in a separate directory for each language , but should > the filenames for the different pages be the same or different? (my system > is built so that actual url of a page and documents are separated) > Personally I think it makes the most sense to have all the filenames in say > english but one could go the other way and have the filenames in each > language, I'm not sure of the cons and pros of this... Will the different langauges have different site structures, or the same structure (ie, will there be pages that only exist in the english version, for example)? Will you need ways to synchronize the translation activities? All these question need to be resolved. Best Regards Lennart Regebro Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
