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Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site,
Drupal or Joomla?<br>
The management interface can be in English. I will need content and
menus in He and En though.<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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I don't know Drupal very well.<br>
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Lingnu's site is built with Joomla (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>), 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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com/ie6-not-supported.html">http://www.lingnu.com/ie6-not-supported.html</a> the first time).<br>
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The site has Hebrew and English mode. Each (translated) article is
available as a base URL (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com/solutions.html">http://www.lingnu.com/solutions.html</a>), as well
as language specific URLs (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com/he/solutions.html">http://www.lingnu.com/he/solutions.html</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com/en/solutions.html">http://www.lingnu.com/en/solutions.html</a>). 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).<br>
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Now for the bad news.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Hope I've helped.<br>
<br>
Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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