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10/29/2009 11:30 AM
 
Zimmers

Joined: 3/20/2009
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Hi,
 

I am building my first DNN website and I am very impressed, it is a great tool.


The last step for me it to solve content localization and I understand that is not included in DNN today (but will come I next version). If I understand correctly there are several modules and extensions that can help me with this, the question is just what is the best way for me? I will describe some of my requirements and maybe someone can give me some opinion on what I shall do.


1. My site will be in 4 different languages.
2. Most content will be in all languages but sometimes I need to show/hide pages based on the selected language.
3. Not needed but a nice feature should be to hide/show modules on a paged based on language.
4. In my site I will mostly use the HTML module, but I also need one for news/announcements and for downloading files.
5. I will have some flash banners on the site, I also need to use different flash banners for different language.


When content localization is built in to DNN I would like to start use that (I like to use as much core features as possible).
Based on my requirements and that I would like to use DNN built-in content localization in the future, what approach shall I use now?


I have also tried to find information about content localization in next DNN version but have not been able to. It would be nice to know how it will be done so I can biuld my site with that in mind and hopefully it will be easier for me to migrate in the future.


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10/29/2009 3:11 PM
 
Sebastian Leupold


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For your scenario, there are 3 major solutions for page and menu localization:

1. EALO (free at EALO.codeplex.com)

2. Locopon's DSLocalizator (still in beta for DNN 5)

3. Apollo Page Localization (a few dollars, buy from Snowcovered.com)

All have advantages and disadvantages, check out features and test, what fits best your needs

You also need multilingual content modules, those can easily be combined with any page localization above and amongst each other:

EALO Text/HTML and Apollo MLHTML are mainly multilingugal versions of Text/HTML 4 (w/o workflow and versioning). MagicContent (on Codeplex) has a nicer UI and a few additional features, Apollo MLSurvey and MLAnnouncements are extended versions of same core modules. MMLinks is a combination of Announcements and Links, IMHO the UI is a bit confusing.

Nuntio Articles and Nuntio Links are new advanced ML modules with a number of additional features and nice UI. They will be released soon on codeplex and www.dnnwerk.de.

Cheers from Germany,
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10/29/2009 4:18 PM
 
Robert


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As far as future versions of the core of DNN providing content localization I wouldn't expect a lot.  And perhaps that's the way it should be.  I would hope the core would provide for localization of page / tab names,module titles,navigation and at least the text / html module.  Perhaps even a guideline as to how to best implement content localization in a module.  Over time I would hope the other DNN provided modules would support content localization but I think extra functionality will be provided by 3rd party modules.
 
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10/29/2009 5:20 PM
 
Zimmers

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Thanks for the quick answers, I will take a deeper look in to these solution and hopefully I find a good way to solve my needs.

 

Zims
 
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10/29/2009 5:28 PM
 
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According to DNN Corp. presentation at OpenForce Europe, DNN 5.2 will contain some localization enhancements in the Database and API level only.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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