Drupal Camp 2012
Creating multilingual Drupal 7 websites (part one)
Why should you create a Drupal website that supports more than one language or a language besides English?
- There are more non-English native speakers in the world than English native speakers.
- You can expand your audience across languages.
- You can promote your site in other countries.
- Users are more likely to buy products and services when a website is in their native language.
NOTE: Beginning Drupalers are welcome. As long as you know the Drupal basics (how to add a content type, block, menu, etc.) then you should be able to follow along.
I will be raffling off a copy of my new Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites book! (one in each talk)
Creating a multilingual Drupal website isn't rocket science, but it's not very simple either. And, in Drupal 7, things have gotten a lot more interesting because of the transition from CCK to entity fields. This session will go over the basics of creating a multilingual Drupal 7 website. It will be broken up into two sessions to cover more topics. I could offer a third session for even more topics if there is enough interest (please leave comments).
Here's a first pass at the topics for each session. This will be based on my new book that just came out:
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites :) http://kristen.org/book
Part One
- Different options for installation
- Adding languages
- Configuring language negotiation
- Updating the Drupal interface
- Node translation vs. field translation
- Basic content translation
Part Two
- Configuring blocks
- Configuring menus
- Configuring taxonomy
- Configuring views
If there is something that you want covered, please let a comment.
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