Localization, Best Practices with XWD?

[BarkinMadd]

Hi all,

First time post - just started to play with XWD - very nice. I was wondering if any of you have a methodology for designing in XWD and then distributing in multiple languages. I need to develop a web-based help system for a product I'm working on and we have to offer this in many languages (eventually 26 langauges).

I'm trying to figure out if I can use placeholders or other such indirection so that I can send blocks of text to a translation house and then link them back into my original web design. I saw a recent post about iframes and that works but I suspect those of you who've been around the block might have a better answer for best practices when it comes to localization?

Your input is much appreciated,

Steve

[Soquili]

Hi Steve,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

I'm not an expert especially with Web Designer. The application was released this past Wednesday.

There may be a snippet or widget that could do the locale identification and select the appropriate pre-created text/graphic.

[BarkinMadd]

Thanks Soquili,

I wonder where I would look for such a snippet or widget. I'll try google first

[BarkinMadd]

I asked this question many moons ago. Never did find an answer. Let me try to ask this again.

Imagine you create a website design using XWD. Now you want to have it translated to several other languages. You can't expect a translation house to use XWD so how would you suggest this be done?

This isn't a question about auto-detecting the local - I'm just wondering if any of you have gone through the process of having your website translated without having to use XWD at the translation house?

Thanks

[steve.ledger]

Absolute positioning of text and lines would make translation by anything but hand a bit hit'n'miss. Different languages would inevitably mean different length words and lines.

Try URL: http://webdesigner.xara.com/ with Google Translate to see the problems.