If you have a business or non-profit that serves a multi-language audience, you will want to make sure that your website has multi-language capabilities.

Gutensite can help you create a website that toggles back and forth between two or more languages without creating an overly complicated administrative headache.

The control panel does not allow each piece of content to have two (or more) different translations, or promo images (since many graphics have text), etc. There are many reasons for this purposeful limitation:

• Multi-Language support for every piece of content ends up creating an unnecessarily complicated management interface.
• When you are targetting two different countries or cultures, you will often want/need to customize your message to each group. This may require including different promoted features on the home page, different pages in your menu, different sidebar promos, etc. Often it isn't a one-for-one pure translation.
• You may want to have different members of your team, or different global offices be responsible for the content of their localized website.

So our solution is to create two (or more) websites that are linked to one another, use the same design template across both websites (customized if necessary for one or the other) and may even share the same visitor accounts. But the websites have two different administrative control panel accounts so that editing the content on the French site is done in one admin account, and the English site is edited in another admin account.

This makes a simpler approach to managing the websites, and for the visitor it's seemless. Plus you get a website that is using the local domain. The english website might be http://www.mysite.com and the french website might be http://www.mysite.fr and the website will then have some buttons in the header that lets visitors pick their preferred language.

If you need help with a project like this, let us know.