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By: Czechidea.com » Blog Archive » Importance of being international

Czechidea.com » Blog Archive » Importance of being international — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:06:45 +0000

[...] international is a topic also for projects primary launched in English. Read more about this at AlexWilliams.ca (from Montreal, bi-lingual place). Multilingual versions had to be thought about at the very [...]

By: heri

heri — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:05:58 +0000

content deployement is when you are publish lots of news/articles/content in both languages. like for example governements who have to comply with laws

anyways, it depends on the website i guess, and its size

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:22:37 +0000

Hahahaaa… Bell and Rogers should NOT be used as examples for multilingual sites. Their web developers are obviously clueless.

What is a “content deployment plan”? Sounds like some sort of corp-speak.

I think you missed the point of my post. I was trying to underline the importance of building a multilingual site from day 1. If you start early, you’ll see it’s actually quite easy to build support for more than 1 language.

If you want examples, just look in my portfolio:
http://www.alexwilliams.ca/portfolio/php/

I will add my most recent projects eventually.

By: heri

heri — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:25:25 +0000

but handling more than 1 language complexifies your app, development-wise.

also you need a content deployment plan in both languages. so you end up with websites like bell or rogers that ask you 3 times which province you come from.

I have yet to see a good bilingual website. do you have any examples

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:52:44 +0000

@Derek: It’s never too late, but having browsed (a lot) through the BambooInvoice code for the last week ;) I can guarantee it will be a hell of a job!

I’ve posted my response on Barry and Ian’s blogs, and the common denominator is that it really depends on your needs.

BambooInvoice is an OpenSource application, which means you can easily gather support from the community to help internationalize it. But you already knew that ;)

It’s times like this when you reflect on your platform of choice, and rejoice at how much time it will save you. :D

By: Derek Allard

Derek Allard — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:27:01 +0000

This is very insightful! I wrote BambooInvoice as a "scratch my own itch" type of application - only its gained a lot of momentum and requests for internationalization. In fact, just today I wrote Internationalizing your application cannot be an afterthought. Funny... I wish I had read your post a year ago.

By: bjhess blog

bjhess blog — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:48:58 +0000

Why not internationalize?…

Alex Williams has an excellent post about internationalizing a new web app as early as possible. Scrawlers is probably a prime candidate to internationalize right off the bat. There isn’t much static text on the site, anyway. Most of it is use…

By: Ian Landsman's Weblog v2.0

Ian Landsman's Weblog v2.0 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:41:06 +0000

Why There Isn't More Multilingual Support…

Interesting post by Alex asking why more software doesn't support non English languages. I think what he's leaving out is the significant cost of doing it. HelpSpot for instance is setup to handle different language packs, but it just doesn&a…