Re: multi-lingual website

Hire a linguistic service.  I read German and I really hate it when I read
bad Deutsch/German writing.  So to the Germans.

As the words of Amy Nottingham fell from above I was tickled at 9:48 AM
-0500 on 7/5/02:
>Hello,
>
>My company has decided that as part of a site re-design, our website needs
>to exist in at least French and German in addition to English, and possibly
>other languages later.  For those of you who have created/ maintain websites
>in multiple languages, how do you do it?
>
>Most of the content on the site will be stored in a database, so could I
>store different versions of the same content, and just select which version
>to display based on language?  Is there a more efficient way to do it?  Is
>there some way that xml could be helpful here? I know that xml has a
>language attribute of some sort, but I don't know enough to know how that
>works. We will probably be using Cold Fusion to build the site, but are open
>to other server-side possibilities as well.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am way out of my depth, and am
>trying to get a grip on understanding what it will take to do this, and then
>explain to my bosses that it is not so simple as pushing a button, and POOF!
>the site gets magically translated.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Amy

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