Multilingual Websites - UX Camp Europe 2013
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In my talk at the UX Camp Europe 2013 I show some good and bad examples for multilingual websites, common mistakes and how to avoid them.
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Multilingual Websites - UX Camp Europe 2013
- 1. Multilingual Websites Rémy Blättler Chef vom System, Supertext AG remy.supertext.ch | @swissghostrider Common mistakes and general knowledge
- 2. About me Remy Blaettler Supertext remy.supertext.ch @swissghostrider
- 4. Browser language detection Geolocation Allow for easy change and remember the selection.
- 5. Flags for language selection
- 7. Best place for the language selection Best
- 10. Language selection Use a Globe or a Map icon Country and/or Language Selection
- 13. Language selection Always in native language
- 15. Politically correct No need to step on someone's toes
- 16. Rest of the world? Or “Other countries” Are you serious???
- 18. URL design and SEO www.supertext.ch www.supertext.com/de
- 19. Cheap translations and SEO
- 20. Translation tools Translation Memory Terminology CAT (Computer-assisted translation)
- 21. Strings with Placeholders Translated : What the translator gets:
- 22. Strings with Placeholders Format Strings Translation:
- 23. Nice numbers Plural forms Add multiple versions:: no s one 27 s
- 24. Plural forms ngettext() can solve this in PHP, Java and .NET
- 27. Your website? Let’s look at some websites
Editor's Notes
- Last oneisthe Chinese Flag
- Simple, clear it’s a language switcherOnly thing I would do different is that I would use bold for English to show it’s selected. But I’m sure that the opinions will differ on that one.
- Basically a good exampleGlobus Symbol on the top right corner. Obviously the search was deemed more important for this client.“Standorte” which thay translated into Country, so it’s more of a “headquarter” selector than a language selector. I guess….But only the shortcut of the country name in the dropdown. Why? There is enough space. And already the question comes up again, is it a language selector or a country selector?And who really knows what ES means? What does for example EL mean? => Greek
- 50 languages, plus some unofficial ones, like pirate speach10 Languages