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- Kiko
just been told to make a web site which will be in different languages so they asked me to make it "localisable".
What does that mean please?
- trevedda0
I would imagine they mean that the site would detect the language version setting of the browser and then feed the appropriate content.
Alternatively you could just use those horible flags and ask users to select the language they require.
Most likely though is that you will be building something which is data base driven since different content would be fed to the same page structure.
- AndyJnr0
I would ask your client what they mean by the term "localisable". Then you can go forward.
- acescence0
well, any site is "localisable", it just requires translation and someone to insert all of the translated text..
not putting words or important navigation in images would be a major point, i think.
- mikotondria20
only make it viewable on one machine, so people have to come there to see the site.
Lets see 'website tourism' really take off, like VRML.
Cash in with overpriced Motel8's and charge people $28 for a breakfast and coffee like they do in DC. Bastards.
- mikotondria20
sorry, that was no help at all..
I couldnt believe it though - $28 it was for 2 eggs, bacon and toast, juice and a coffee..Add to that the plastic cocked up jerks twitching and grimacing in every pithy little 'theme' bar, and a dearth of crack-heads on the streets after dark, and you wont wonder why I never want to go back. Fricking dump, second only to LA as the nastiest toilet of a city Ive ever been to.
- madirish0
because you went to an overpriced restaurant for breakfast and choose to make generalized, tendentious comments, this is why you do not like DC?
I am sorry, but i could not think of a more inappropriate, and incorrect depiction of DC than that.
- madirish0
and sorry for the hijack of a perfectly good thread, Kiko.
i would add that "localisable" would infer that the site should be abel to display in the users own style sheet (should they have one) along with their language and connection speed. basically, a standards-compliant, strict XHTML and CSS designed/built site. sounds liek fun. i have done several of these types of projects and they end up being very projects to work on.