WebsiteX5.info - The ultimate guide for Incomedia's WebsiteX5

Incomedia WebsiteX5 offers you the possibility to create multi-language sites. So it says on the box... By giving your visitor a choice of language you can reach a larger public.

Incomedia offers you the possibility to create up to four different versions of your site (in different languages and to link them together using an intro page.

There are, however alternative methods to implement multi-language sites.

• By adding flags on the home pages or in the banner with links on them to the home pages of the different language sites. Placing the flags in the banner has the great advantage these images are always available for your visitor.
• The PHP-way, where the default language is based on the language setting of the browser your visitor uss. So a user with a English browser gets the English site, a French user the French site, etc. For the other users you can specify, for example the English site as the default.

The combination of these two is especially interesting. You present the user with an educated guess, but give him the opportunity to select another language in case the guess wasn't right after all.

These alternatives have no need for an introduction page and (if you are a multi-linguist or have a translation department at your service) you are not limited to a maximum of four languages.

Having said this, it means you will have to create and maintain a site for each language. And that can be quite a lot of work!

• You will need to do the translations and keep them up to date over all your languages.
• When you add a page to your primary language site you have to copy/paste that page to your other language projects. And because you can have only one copy of WebsiteX5 open at one time this can become quite tedious when you have added multiple pages.
• There is, at the moment, no possibility to link individual pages. With this I mean that when you are on a page in, for example, your English website there is no way to automatically go to the same page in your French site. This could be done, but it would require you to add the links on each page and maintain them. You could also use a piece of JavaScript to do this automatically.