Multilingual content, articles and interface menus on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- quiet languages. Instructions with a step-by-step guide to creating a website where you can edit and create a translation yourself.
A multilingual site is the same as a multilingual site that contains information in several languages and carries this information to an audience that is connected by common interests.
It is a profound misconception that an Internet resource in which the interface and content are presented in two languages and more is intended for users from different countries.
We can say, "a multilingual website allows you to tell a wide audience about your advantages, technologies, goods and services."
Yes, it is a fact.
But such a formulation will not tell you anything at all if you do not know who this "wide audience" is!
And it is really wide, whether it is a pizza delivery site, electronics sales, banking or legal services, city news or a user documentation site for software. What can we say about the web resources of "accompanying" services without intimacy?
Agree, and all these people, in general, can be located in the same city, and not that within the country.
There are diasporas in every country, in every big city there are tourists, foreigners who have come to work or have been living in it for many years, due to other circumstances.
Remember yourself when you learned to read and write. Do you remember? Obviously before that, you have already learned to speak your native language quite fluently for four years.
Maybe someone will disagree, but you can't argue with history and practice.
A person can learn to speak and express themselves in a foreign language in six months, but learning to read and write always takes years. Especially if we are talking about the Russian language.
No one will learn a foreign language, just to order pizza at home, buy a laptop in an online store, read the website of the local city portal with news and get acquainted with the movie posters in cinemas.
French, Chinese, Turkish, Egyptian, Russian and American. What do they have in common?
All of them, to a greater or lesser extent, understand English at a level that is sufficient to read information about payment and delivery, order a laptop or pizza on the websites of local establishments, news about upcoming local events, and use software and documentation for it, which is not locally tied to the place and is used from anywhere on the planet.
Your site, in another language, can and will be used by the one for whom you have made a multilingual site.
It is clear that the owner of a pizzeria, legal or advertising agency will not do it themselves, but not a "short-sighted" manager will spend 200 euros and order the creation of a multilingual website from a webmaster, because even in recalculation for pizza, putting 1 euro in each one has already paid off. And those 20 foreigners who ordered pizza will tell other foreigners about this site, and the site of another pizzeria with only one Russian already somehow looks pale.
Making a multilingual website is something that often comes as a "good idea" after something has already been done. This means that sometimes sites are made on a platform that is difficult to make multilingual in terms of the interface, and even more difficult in terms of multilingual content, such as news, a service or a product in several languages at the same time.
Therefore, not everyone, but a reasonably intelligent manager should know a webmaster who is smart enough to have a ready-made solution for creating a multilingual website in his "toolbox" - CMS Cotonti.
This is a free open source website management system that is updated and stored on the hosting of IT projects - on GitHub, and is always available for free download.
Detailed instructions, step by step, with pictures, with examples, are in my guide "How to Create a Multilingual Website on CMS Cotonti". This is a special topic on the forum where you can ask a question if you decide to make a multilingual website yourself.
Resources and information about this can be found at the link on the thematic forum of our marketplace.
2. Install the multilingual plugin for the interface and content of the site "i18n Content Internationalization"
Resources and information about this can be found at the link on the thematic forum of our marketplace.
3. Set up "i18n Content Internationalization" according to the instructions.
Resources and information about this can be found at the link on the thematic forum of our marketplace.
4. Download and install the template of the multilingual website "Cotcom"
Resources and information about this can be found at the link on the thematic forum of our marketplace.
5. Optionally, install a template for the site's administrative control panel.
Resources and information about this can be found at the link on the thematic forum of our marketplace.
After completing all these 5 steps, you will definitely get a site that implements the functionality of multilingual content in articles and news, as well as the interface of the site itself, with which the user interacts. If something doesn't work out, you can always create a topic /topic and ask questions on the forum in this section and get free support as soon as you have free time.
And finally, if you really don't care about all these details, but want to ask me a question personally or order a multilingual website for your Internet project, register and write in person using the button. click on the screen to enlarge it.
Successful projects and multilingual websites on CMS Cotonti.
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