Website design and development

Necessity of having a multilingual website:

With the rapidly changing environment of world economy, it has now become a necessity to have a website . But only having a website is not a solution for traders targeting different language zones in the world. Though English is still the primary language used by the internet users, but the number of users in different language and cultural zones are rapidly increasing. So a serious trader who aims at targeting the maximum customer base all over the world cannot avoid the requirement of a salesman for his shop who can speak all languages or a Multilingual Website that displays content written in different languages .  The statistics [see figure below ] shows that Chinese, Spanish, Japanese , French people now are getting more involved with the internet world using their own language, in spite of using English.

From the above statistics a clever trader will immediately notice that these non-English markets are comparatively a better place for a trader to start with his business. This is not only because the English market is too competitive , but also for the fact that it is saturated in lots of areas. The customers have their favorite traders already, who are in this domain for a longer period. On the other hand the other markets are growing and most importantly with new customers who do not usually have a preset choice, that gives the trader a fair chance to compete and win the race.

How to get a Multilingual website:

Openweb Solutions specializes in Multilingual website  development. Please have a look below to have an idea about how multilingualism is added to an website. This enables the user to choose his preferred language and the content of the site is displayed in that language only.

Multilingualism can be implemented in different degrees:

1. language file based multilingualism [for frontend only]
2. language file based multilingualism [for the whole site]
3. language file + DB based multilingualism [for the whole site]
4. Google translate api based multilingualism

For a multilingual site we provide option 1. language file based multilingualism, by default. However we also design the basic structure as extensible, so that at any time our customers can upgrade to the next degree with some additional cost [depending upon the size of the project and effort associated with the upgradation] without affecting the structure of the system.

Now please let us explain the above degrees in detail.

1. language file based multilingualism [for front end]: In this approach we maintain language files for each and every language in the system, that contains translated texts of the similar words in it. In most of the cases the client supplies the translated text. Alternatively we can also prepare that using Google translation service by our data entry operator team [chargable at hourly rate], but that is not recommended as google is often wrong when it comes to translation. As far as display characteristics are concerned, only the front end static text contents and static images will be changed with the selection of a  language. Any dynamic content that comes from the database are displayed in English, regardless of the language chosen by the visitor. Also the administrator section is totally displayed in English.

2. language file based multilingualism [for the whole site]: This is same as above , with an additional feature that backoffice static contents and static images will be changed with the language selection. However in this case also, the dynamic contents from the database will be displayed in English.

3. language file + DB based multilingualism [for the whole site]: This is the ultimate choice for someone seriously looking for a real multilingual website. Costly though, this option allows the ability to the admin to enter data in different languages, and to display them in the frontend accordingly. No limitation, all static and dynamic content will be displayed according to the language chosen by the visitor.

4. Google translate api based multilingualism:

This is done through google translation API. This solution is however not recommended, as google is often wrong as far as translation is concerned.