How to build a website showing 4 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati?

Posted by admin on October 9th, 2009

I am building a website that is predominantly in English but also contains some content in Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati. The information available in each language is different. I cannot decide whether to create individual sections for each language or mix them in each page. Are there any best practices for designing multilingual websites or really good examples you have seen?

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2 Responses to “How to build a website showing 4 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati?”

1. afk says:

   October 10, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   You might want to create a front page that offers viewers the choice of language they would prefer.

   Then have four subdomains that have the same content but in different languages.

   e.g. english.yourdomain.com, hindi.yourdomain.com, bengali.yourdomain.com, and gujarati.yourdomain.com.

   When the viewer clicks the language he/she prefers, it takes them to the index.html file on that subdomain.

   So, if I click on English, then the link takes me to english.yourdomain.com, and I can read the contents in English.
2. Doraemon says:

   October 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm

   search in google first….

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