Talk:Make Multi Lingual Site

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It rocks ! thanks !

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Internationalization best practices

This is an excellent resource, thanks!

I want to note that country codes and flags are often inappropriate for multi-lingual sites. You need to be careful and consider who your target "markets" are. If indeed the site is for Spanish speakers in Spain, then Spain's country code and flag icon might be appropriate. But if you intend for the site to be read by people in multiple countries, in Spanish (national variation of language aside), then a Spanish or Mexican flag or anything else is inappropriate. The language's name in its own language is preferable in this case, Español, for instance. French and Spanish are the most common examples of this in Western languages. Also, some language markets are internal to a country. Site content might be for people in the US, but translated into Spanish and Traditional Chinese. Country flags would be inappropriate there as well.

Correspondingly, 2-letter country codes may make less semantic sense than ISO 639-3 three-letter language codes.

Just 2 cents. :)

Setup document Tree

Great stuff & works but I am having problems with the redirect probably because this page is a little unclear for a first time user. There seems to be some problems with the Setup document Tree. The start page logically should always redirect. However the redirect to the English page this works when first loaded, but when start is clicked in the menu or the Modx logo is clicked a few times the start page is shown - this should always redirect right? Also please explain all the steps for a first time user, some of us want to use modx because we googled this page first, for example I am a multi language CMS user, but have never used Modx.