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kitson_l Posts: 1 Joined: 5/8/2002 From: Status: offline	Views on bi-lingual sites - 5/8/2002 13:41:53 Greetings, Asked to designed and built a school web site. Happy enough on the web design but the since the school teaches in native Irish lanuage, it wants the site to reflect this. What are the current feelings on this issue?? Should I design two sites, one in Irish and one in english and let the user choose. Or should I incorporate both lanuages into one site. Regards Liam Kitson liam.kitson@mail.esb.ie


DarlingBri Posts: 3123 From: Left of Centre, Cork, Ireland Status: offline	RE: Views on bi-lingual sites - 5/8/2002 17:06:42 Normally I would say let the visitor choose on entry, but as it's a school teaching Irish, it would be far more interesting to have the English in one column and the corresponding Irish in the other, side by side. Navigation would be a bit of a bugger, since it's only really practical to provide one set of buttons, but you could do animated buttons that flipped from Irish to English at one second intervals... that wouldn't be annoying if they were very simple buttons. But for a school site, especially a language school, I would totally do the side-by-side thing. I think you probably know from experience that a dedicated Irish version will be little read; the side-by-side makes the translation into a learning opportunity --Bri ----- #!usr/bin/girl (in reply to kitson_l)