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Best practices and structure for English/Spanish site

September 24, 2010 6:19am

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  • #1 / Sep 24, 2010 6:19am

    deschamps

    137 posts

    I need to have two “sites” in one (english and spanish) - I am not talking about changing template’s titles for both languages.

    In the “spanish” site, members are expected to post, reply and comment only in spanish - most of members will be spanish-speaking ornithologists, field researchers, bird guides and Mexico’s local birders.

    In “english” site you can only post, reply and comment in english - to target a lot of Americans that bird in Mexico and could share tons of bird sightings, not so known plumages of some species that they have photographed or out-of-range rare observations; info that is not getting into statistics right now, because it is lost in the web.

    Content’s essence of both sites is the same: birds of Mexico; but, articles in each “language” site will be tailored for each audience.

    I started with the “spanish’ site first, so, all templates and actual structure for “site” and forum have been used to develop this “language” site.

    Q: what would it be the best approach to begin developing the “english” site?, just create a template group: “english-site” ?.

    I have read some topics that talk about clients creating pages without keeping order and right structure - I do not want to fall in the same path.

    Am I making sense? Any help?

  • #2 / Sep 24, 2010 7:52am

    deschamps

    137 posts

    I found two sound related topics worth to take a look:
    topic one:where John Henry Donovan presentation is mentioned and
    g-room’s topic: several options

    I have read both, still have not full light in the issue, but I will review them again with a clearer mind.

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