Viewing Multilingual website ??
Multilingual website ??
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User: Peter B. 9 years ago
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Hi, I find myself having to create an english website next to my Dutch website. The easiest way for me would be to just copy the current Dutch version to a new project file and then start translating. I would then upload the current site into /nl/ and the english site into a subfolder like /en/ . A simple main index.html offering the visitor the choice of language would send them to the respective pages. Now, I can get to the project files in Finder with no problem, but they all have these odd numbers instead of a simple name. So some questions remain : 1. What's up with these odd numbers, why not name these project files as the sites are named ?? 2. This being as they are, how am I to ever find out what project file is what and...are they in any way copyable at all ? 3. If not copyable at all, then is there a way to copy pages from one project to another ? Can anyone clarify this please ? |
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User: Jumbo T. 9 years ago
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Ever heard of renaming files? That's what I did. |
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User: Peter B. 9 years ago
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Yes Jumbo, I have heard of it and have just now used the same method. I created a blank new site ( 15 Kb filesize ), copied the number of that site to the clipboard. Then copied the other site and renamed it with the number of the new site. It seems to work, but it's a hell of a way to copy a project that way. I seriously do not see the point for this ridiculous numbergame other then obfuscating things for users. It would even be smarter to store the project files in the users home folders for easier access and backing up. |
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User: Stefano R. 9 years ago
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Hello. I have a similar question. Please let me know if this is thread highjacking and I'll open a new thread. I wish to build a multilingual site, too. I'd like to have a separate navigation menu for each language. I would also like to be able to navigate directly to a page in a language to the same page in another language by selecting the language itself. In other words, I would like the user to be able to switch languages in any page, not only to reach the different home pages. Can it be done? How? Thanks. Stefano |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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Create each language version of the site in separate project files and publish them to sub folders with a common index.html file which has links to all the different versions. Each sub site can use the default EverWeb menu in the appropriate language. Insert a small sub menu on each page to link to the equivalent page on the other sites. You can see an example of this type of menu on THIS page above the main menu which links to the other sections of the site. The file paths would lead to the equivalent page on the other sub sites rather than just the index.html as I have done. You would need to use relative paths as described HERE. If you want a navigation that combines all the pages of all the sub sites in one, you could use a Mega Menu. Each drop down can accommodate up to five columns and therefore five languages. This would be rather time consuming to create and would require some knowledge of HTML, CSS and relative file paths. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Peter B. 9 years ago
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Guys, I took the simpeler approach. I registered two new domains; rgblaserbv.nl for the dutch localised website and rgblaserbv.com for international customers. I now have two different sites using a similar master page. Found this to be a better solution also in regards to seo etc. Peter |
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User: Stefano R. 9 years ago
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Hello. Roddy, I'm trying t follow your first example. I created an italian and an english version of the site: The italian version is in a /it folder, while the english version is in a /eng folder. So far so good, I thought, but now I don't know how to link from one page in a language to the same page in the other language: I created a little menu, but I don't know what to link to. If I choose "One of my pages", the page I want to link to does not appear in the list, of course; if I try to link to "An external page" with a relative URL (../ita/index.html, for example, to go from the english home page to the italian one), EverWeb keeps adding "http://" at the beginning of the URL, changing it into a /wrong) absolute URL. What an I missing? Stefano |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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Unfortunately, the Link inspector doesn't have the option to insert relative hyperlinks. I requested this a while back and will do so again. The menu I referred to above is created in in HTML snippet so that relative URLs can be used. Could you start a new topic about creating a navigation to link between sub sites as it may benefit others in the same situation? ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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@Stefano R. Can you contact me and send me a screenshot of the navigation you created so that I know what it looks like? ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Jeremy-RAGESW 9 years ago
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| For anyone looking to create a multilingual website in the future, you can refer to our video tutorial to view our method for accomplishing this. | |
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User: Stefano R. 9 years ago
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Roddy, Jeremy, from Jeremy's suggestion I argue that I will have an absolute URL redirection. I will test it and let you know. Of course I would prefer to have it relative, so that I will not have to change when I'll publish the site on my provider's server (I', now publishing locally, on my iMac). If Roddy is so patient and willing to help me, I would gladly accept his offer, since I'm not able to write the HTMS snippet he suggests. Stefano |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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That's correct. You will have to use a huge number of absolute URLs which will create an equal number of server requests which is not a good idea. Since you are linking every page to the equivalent page on several sub sites you would be far better to use relative URLs. I have made you a widget for a little menu which should do the trick. It only has options for up to 12 countries so I hope you aren't intending to any more than that! ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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