Question

I am developing a new web application from scratch. I need to provide multi-language support in my website. Which enable users from different regions of the world to see each web page in their own language.

Since, i am new to this field so i don’t know how to achieve this. One possible way is to make each single page multiple times for each different language 🙁

But i am not will to do so, because it increases the development and maintenance time.

Secondly, what to do with the database, do i need to make some considerations while designing database?

I will develop this site using ASP.Net with C# and use MS SQL server as backend database

Answer 1

You certainly don’t want to create separate pages for each language.

ASP.NET is quite well geared towards multiple-languages within one page – with the use of resource files:

An effective way to create localized
Web pages is to use resources for your
page’s text and controls based on the
user’s language and culture. By using
properties placed in resource objects,
ASP.NET can select the correct
property at run time according to the
user’s language and culture.