Multi-lingual site - and audio launching questions

Tue, 05/12/2006 - 12:04 — bongriff

Greetings...

I'm new to Drupal... one of my co-workers introduced me to the name about 4 days ago and now I'm doing crash discovery of Drupal. I really like what I see in the power of Drupal over Joomla... especially in its Taxonomy ability.

I've a few questions that maybe someone can answer... before I dive in!

1. what is Drupal like for a multi-lingual site?

- any good sites to show me?

2. does Drupal allow: split screen translation... so what is being translated and blank screen for new translation to be typed into. (I need more coffee if that doesn't sound clear!!)

3. I've seen that before publication Drupal has a "verification" or approval for publication... can this be set up so that two or three different people can approve the a translation? (the reason behind this is... we post and translate counseling techniques and skills... that need to be verified as an accurate translation... by a qualified Dr. who normally doens't have the time to do the actual translation.)

4. Launching audio players. www.theworld.org is a site using audio... and it has the same problem as Joomla, the audio launches the audio player then opens a BLANK window. Is there a solution to this in Drupal that anyone knows of?

Right... that about does it... and I'd be on Drupal with a leap if these few nagging questions can be cleared up. If i'm not clear... please let me know... my brains been working on overdrive...

General

Tue, 05/12/2006 - 16:28 — greenman

I'll start with the easy

I'll start with the easy answers.

3) Moderation can be handled in many different ways. You can easily set up a group who will all be able to manage the moderation. You can also define a specific workflow for content that will make sure that it will get seen by the correct people before it goes live.

4) TheWorld.org is using links to a php file that then serves the audio file directly to the browser. The blank screen issue is a Firefox thing, you wont see it in most other browsers. I suspect that there are ways around it, but dont know them off-hand.

Multilingual

There is a lot of work being done to handle multilingual sites at the moment. The I18N module is worth looking at ( http://drupal.org/project/i18n ) and is actively updated.

I do wish I could say that Drupal makes it easy to build multilingual sites, but in my experience, it is quite a process. There are others who have done far more multilingual work than I have though, and I will let them work on convincing you.

Tue, 05/12/2006 - 20:43 — Robert Castelo