Multilagual pages and table weights

BBBane · Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Hi.
I'm somewhat new in site building...I find my way,and am a quick learner...But still some problems are just untouchable to me...So I thank You for You're help in advance.

As stated, I have two problems.

This is the first.

The site I'm building needs to be on more languages.
I want to make English as default,but since there will be second or even third one,how do I implement it?
I figured that I should use tables,and load different text (based on user selection)...Menus and everything should be in the language that someone selects.
It's not a problem if it's a Java Script,but me and my client don't wont to do next as solution... www.oursite.com/en/

Now for the other problem.

The site is about 3D and there are going to be lots of pictures,thumbnails and big ones...
What I need to do is make the table height smaller than the browser window for certain amount of pixels...I figured that too needs Java Script or CSS..

Any help is welcomed.And Yea I'm a student,so sorry if there is delay in me answering back,and site is still under develop so it's not on the web.

Thanks.

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1282

This site offers a free website translator that users click to change languages http://www.appliedlanguage.com/ I have not used it so I cannot vouch for it's reliability.

BBBane · Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Thank You Sticks464 I will try it and post my experience.

Still have a problem thought with setting the table size...

My idea is this,but I do need little help...
I would set my page to check browser size,but with return value to set height of the table...
I know that browser size is not a problem to be checked,and I saw some examples of that,but how to impact the table height by this value?

BBBane · Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

I took a look at http://www.appliedlanguage.com/ and it's not what I was searching...and it seams that they don't even use what I'm trying...They have more domain names... www.french.appliedlanguage.com , www.appliedlanguage.it/ ,etc.And that is good if You have nothing against my pages depending on someone other...and I do.It could lead to not well translation.

I have searched Google already but found only this...so if it could help someone to explain it to me in more..not complicated manner.

"Yes, with some caveats.. the easy way to do it is to have all the text, place all english text in one box with an id, then all the foreign language text in a box with another id.

If you have to have text here and text there (like for menus, for example) use classes instead of IDs.

Then just use a simple javascript switch to hide one and display the other using display block and display none. Same basic concept as a stylesheet switcher.

Then go one step further and save the preference to a cookie, and load the appropriate stylesheet dependent on the cookie value."

Well this site,I'm working on has a page with logo and two buttons (for now,there may be more) to choose the language and the language would impact the whole site (menus and text)..

PS:
Just found this:
view.php?id=220
Is there a way to use this with HTML?It seamed to me that only text changed,not whole site..