Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote:
> Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or Joomla?
> The management interface can be in English. I will need content and 
> menus in He and En though.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>   
I don't know Drupal very well.

Lingnu's site is built with Joomla (http://www.lingnu.com), using 
joomfish for the actual translations. We didn't manage to get IE6 is to 
support the Hebrew site (things look bad, but you get redirected to 
http://www.lingnu.com/ie6-not-supported.html the first time).

The site has Hebrew and English mode. Each (translated) article is 
available as a base URL (http://www.lingnu.com/solutions.html), as well 
as language specific URLs (http://www.lingnu.com/he/solutions.html and 
http://www.lingnu.com/en/solutions.html). There were quite a few 
important incoming links left over from the static HTML site that was 
there earlier, and we managed to simply place the new, dynamic site over 
the same URLs as the old one (all the pages have .html extension - an 
SEO plugin, of course).

Now for the bad news.

Getting this took a lot of work. Tailoring the template to look the way 
we wanted, and to get it working on (almost) all browser took a lot of 
tweaking and work. Joomfish took a lot of getting used to, but frankly, 
a lot of it were bugs in joomfish that have, since, been resolved. The 
same goes for the SEO plugin - getting friendly URLs took some getting 
used to.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with the choice of technology, and 
very happy with the end result. It allows me to have some of the site 
bilingual, others only in English/Hebrew, and mix in static elements 
where applicable. Most importantly, it allows me to make changes without 
thinking twice about it when I need to.

Hope I've helped.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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