I’m building a really simple CMS for a bilingual website. The website would have 5+5 pages each of which would have varying content. Its like you have an about us page, services page a news page and contact us page in two languages.
I was wondering that on the CMS backend admin panel I would be making .. what is the better option should I make two separate admin panels for the two different languages – it seems like over kill though but again what is the preferred way in such a case where you have a cms website in two different languages…
Or should I consider using a third party cms for this? I haven’t worked in Drupal or in Jhoomla much and have little idea here. Basically my client needs a corporate website which would have an:
About us page, Mission Statement, Products[this should be updateable], News and Updates[updateable], Contact Us, Feedback etc to name a few.
The site should be bilingual as well.
How should I get on this I need to submit a mock up soon. I have about 10 days to finish the project so would like to hear some ideas on how to get started.
You can keep it inside one administrator’s page. Just supply a list of languages somewhere on the page for a quick switch between them. So when admin is editing a page in English they choose Spanish and the English page is automatically saved and they go on editing the Spanish version.
The other thing you can do is use a tabbed wysiwyg editor like Spaw2 and put every language in it’s own tab (since you will probably have only a couple of bilingual fields).