Shared Borders and different contents based on page languages

[José Joye]

I'm new to Web development and I have the task of building our web site.
It has to be in 2 languages to start with (French and German).

The option I'm thinking of is to duplicate all the pages and placing them in
subdirectories (/fr and /de)
The problem I'm currently facing is related to Header and Trailer.
I planned to use the "Shared Border" feature as a global place for my
Header/Trailer. However, I have 2 versions: one in french and 1 in German.

At the present, I do not see how to handle it with "Shared Border".

Is this possible?
What is the normal way to go for such a feature?


Thanks,
José

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

If your host / site supports subwebs, the recommended way is to create a subweb for each additional language, and set the language
properties of each "web" in FP
- yes you will need unique shared borders and navigation in each and must create external links between the root/sub webs
To convert a folder to a subweb just right click it and select convert to web
Or finish 1 language web and publish it to a subweb of that web, then open the new subweb to reset it's language properties and redo
your pages w/ the new language settings and translations

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| I'm new to Web development and I have the task of building our web site.
| It has to be in 2 languages to start with (French and German).
|
| The option I'm thinking of is to duplicate all the pages and placing them in
| subdirectories (/fr and /de)
| The problem I'm currently facing is related to Header and Trailer.
| I planned to use the "Shared Border" feature as a global place for my
| Header/Trailer. However, I have 2 versions: one in french and 1 in German.
|
| At the present, I do not see how to handle it with "Shared Border".
|
| Is this possible?
| What is the normal way to go for such a feature?
|
|
| Thanks,
| José
|
|

 

[Andrew Murray]

You would be better off wth the "include page" feature under Insert menu > Web
Compoent > Included Content > Page.

then you specify an html file to 'include' in your page/s. It is sort of similar
to shared borders but more flexible in that you can choose which page to include
in each other page and choose where to put it on the page, not just
top/bottom/left/right as with shared borders - hence the term "borders"). With
Shared Borders, you can apply them to the whole site or just a few pages or not
at all.

With Include Page, you choose which file and where on the page you want to
include the other page (eg a menu or title banner).

Include pages are also handy since if you need to change an item which is on the
included page, then you change just that include page, and reupload it and the
changes will be reflected across all the pages using that particular included
page. (needs the server extensions for that to work but it does work without the
extensions only you would need to reupload all the pages using that particular
included page).

 

[José Joye]

Thanks

José

If your host / site supports subwebs, the recommended way is to create a

subweb for each additional language, and set the language

properties of each "web" in FP
- yes you will need unique shared borders and navigation in each and must

create external links between the root/sub webs

To convert a folder to a subweb just right click it and select convert to web
Or finish 1 language web and publish it to a subweb of that web, then open

the new subweb to reset it's language properties and redo