Hi Martin,
You already found out a lot about everything that is on the market ;)
tinu44 wrote
- ModuleLocalization: to translate the title of modules on a page
Actually, the module is just a dummy module (although that might change in future), and contains some controls that i use in all my ML modules (like title localization). You cannot use this module to localize titles of modules that do not support this module....
tinu44 wrote
- PageLocalization: allows to translate the title of pages. If I understood correctly, this module also replaces some standard modules so that they support the localized page titles (BreadCrumb, Links, SolPartMenu, PageTitle and TreeViewMenu)
There are also some third party navigational controls that support my PageLocalization module, like Inventua's SideMenu and TopMenu modules, DNNMasters SiteMap module, and i am in contact with Tim Rolands of House of Nuke to add support to his HouseMenu.
tinu44 wrote
- are the modules from locopon and appllo compatible or should I refrain from mixing them
Any module that offers a solution for dynamic localization should be compatible with any other module. The modules all take the current page culture and do something to select content for that culture. How the culture was selected is of no consequence, and every module is independent of every other module. Having said that, depending on your use of ML modules, and depending on who is going to have to maintain the site, it might be good idea to make a choice about which modules you will be using. Differences in interface might be confusing for your site admin ...
tinu44 wrote
- do the modules (appollo/locopon) fully support searching
My modules full support searching... however, due to the fact that the dnn search option has no way of knowing which locale it should return in the search results, you might get results from other languages. I solve that by adding a locale identifier to the description of the item (like this: [nl-NL]), and i make sure that the link to the actual module contains a locale definition. So when you are in a Dutch page, and the search returns a German item, then by clicking the link, your site will also switch to German (this is done by just adding language=de-DE to the query string)
tinu44 wrote
- will the standard DNN language selection work with these modules
Yes, all the modules do is just displaying content for a selected locale.. how the locale is selected is not important. Of course you will also have to think about search engines. A search engine has no way of selecting another language with the default dnn language selector. If you use a language selector that supports plain hyperlinks, then any search engine can just follow the hyperlink. Both mine and Locopon's langauge selector support plain hyperlinks. If you look at my site (www.apollo-software.nl) you will see that i have a menu at the top of the page, and a hyperlink selector at the bottom, to make sure search engines can find the other languages of my site.
tinu44 wrote
- is there a module which displays a list of links to the current page's child pages (using the localized child page titles)
If you use Locopons DSLocalizator you can use any module that displays child links. If you are using my PageLocalization you can use the MLLinks skinobject, or solpart, or inventua's sideMenu....
Cheers,
Erik