The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 4 (of 5) - Multi Language Personnal Web Page

Multi Language Personnal Web Page

Which piece of sofware would you advise me to use
for a personnal web pages which must
be in French & English ?

Thanks in advance for your recommendations

Tarek
Monday, March 1, 2004

CityDesk

Monday, March 1, 2004

If you have php and mysql/postgreSQL, you might want to look at Drupal.

http://www.drupal.org

I have used movable type, http://movabletype.org and greymatter http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/ too. The latter does not require a database.

All three are free as in beer, and are very easy to use, if you have basic understanding of ftp.

Tapiwa
Monday, March 1, 2004

Who's got experience using DreamWeaver ?

Is there any good Multi-Language features in this software ?

Tarek
Monday, March 1, 2004

Dreamweaver? No, not really.

But I dont know exactly what kind of features you are looking for. You can sure use dreamweaver to maintain two versions of a page.

Or, you can use dreamweaver to write a simple CMS that can manage different languages.

Eric Debois
Monday, March 1, 2004

It was suggested that City Desk might be appropriate for a personal site.

If you've got a few pages and it's not going to change very much, then the free version of City Desk would be helpful. However, if you want to make something like a blog then you'd have to buy the $299 version of CD to get past the article limit.

For new users, does anyone think that City Desk is still a viable option for a personal web page?

Joel Goodwin
Monday, March 1, 2004

Hi Eric,

the feature I'm mainly after is a splitted screen
which show side by side, the French & the English text ...

Any translation functions would be nice ...

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Tarek
Tuesday, March 2, 2004