[ILUG-BOM] How to design multilingual website

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On 19-Sep-06, at 1:15 PM, Philip Tellis wrote:

> what's SOP?

Standard Operating Procedure
>
> if you think it scales, then chances are you aren't getting too  
> many visitors.  what you should do is pregenerate multiple copies  
> of files, one for each language, and serve static files out to users.

too much work - and there are some pretty massive sites out there  
running on django or Rails using dynamic content - the bottleneck is  
not translating text. It is serving media - django advocates serving  
media from a separate server from the filesystem and not the database.
>
> the less dynamic content on a page, the better it will scale.

obvious - but the less dynamic content, the more work for the  
programmer and there is no fun in being a programmer if you have to work


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Kenneth Gonsalves
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