Getting a single language site setup with Drupal is fairly easy, but add multilingual languages into the mix, and configuring your site becomes more challenging.
With Drupal you can make it easy for content editors to translate content, and provide users with a multilingual interface that serves them up a site in their chosen or detected language. In this course, you’ll see the modules and configuration options you can select to make this process smoother. You’ll learn typical procedures through hands-on activities. Most importantly, you’ll leave knowing how to plan and prepare for your next multilingual website.
What You'll Learn
- Understand the most important decisions to make when building a multilingual website
- Be able to identify all the elements of a Drupal site that need translation
- Understand how to configure the multilingual settings for content types to match the translations available
- Know the difference between field-level and node-level translation and when to use each one
- How to configure core and contributed modules for multilingual site building
- Be able to identify the challenges of translating Drupal’s user interface, plan a project accordingly
- Have familiarity with Drupal’s localize.drupal.org website and how to take advantage of updates to module language files
Location:
Evolving Web Office
114-300 Saint-Sacrement
Montreal, QC H2Y 1X4
Requirements: Experience creating a Drupal site, configuring content management features, and setting up the site structure. Comfortable with Views and fields configuration.
What's Provided: Lunch, power outlets, and a training manual. Please bring your laptop.
Registration: http://drupal-multilingual-montreal-oct12.eventbrite.com
Cost: $325 / $250 for DrupalCamp Attendees / $100 for Students