multi lingual support in umbraco

Question

I did create a website in Umbraco. The website is in English .

My English website contains only HTML coding and .net user controls.

Now I did add one more language poland and managed corresponding host names .

How can I use the same HTML pages and .net user controls to polish without creating duplicate templates and datatypes

Answer 1

We had same earlier we had site in English and then we created new following structure of it. by making little change.

Root
--- Website
----- Home
----- Products
----- Details..

then what we did its little bit change into node structure of it.

Root
--- English
------ Home
------ Products
------ Details..

--- Polish
------ Home
------ Products
------ Details..

so there will be let XSLT and Razor changes if you have nay more question please do let me know.

Answer 2

I would also add that, because in most cases you are sharing templates and macros for all language variants, you will want to translate and format the text in them based on the appropriate culture setting (for example, if you have, let's say, a newslist displaying the latest 5 news items, their date and authors, you will want the 'author' word to display in the correct language).

This is where dictionary items come in. This video should provide more information, if you have an Umbraco TV subscription. If not, here is a text-only explanation to get you started.