Hi all. I am looking for advice about creating a very simple two-language site in RapidWeaver. Below is my outline so far. Does this sound reasonable? Can anyone offer theme suggestions or other guidance? I particularly have no idea how to set or read a cookie.
Thanks!
Adaptive, mainly for iPhone and iPad
Will be used with Google Analytics and Google AdWords
- Including conversion tracking for contact form
Browser compatibility priority:
- Safari (including old versions)
- Firefox (including old versions)
- Chrome (including old versions)
- IE/PC browser (not really needed if it’s hard)
Bi-lingual
- domain/en
- domain/de
Landing page:
- If language cookie:
— Navigate to domain/en or domain/de
- Else:
— Grayed out landing page with required English or Deutsch button choice
— Set language cookie
— Navigate to domain/en or domain/de
Main page:
- Clear language choice (flags in upper right?)
— with direct link to associated page (not just drop at home page)
- Clear menu selector for mobile devices (upper left?)
- Home
- Service
- Prices
- About
- Contact form
— With conversion tracking - so needs confirmation page?
I’d start by checking out Stacks4Stacks RML suite of stacks. I think they’ll probably be able to handle the multi-lingual side of things really nicely.
Good tutorial videos as well if I recall correctly.
Hi robbeattie, thanks for the suggestion! I just watched the RWML tutorial and one thing I didn’t see was using a different number of navigation items per language. For example, if I have a certain page that exists in only one language I might have 5 navigation buttons in English but 6 in German. Do you know if that’s possible in RWML?
Hi Phil, do you know if Agent will support a different number of navigational items per language? For example English has 5 pages to navigate to, but German has 6? Thanks for the suggestion!
With Agent and RWML you place content in language stacks, say one set for English and another set for German. The users selects a language and the associated stacks are displayed (a language cookie is saved). I usually create a menu for each language. The stacks4stacks website has a good explanation of how this all works.
