Creation of a multilingual website in Umbraco

Question

I am new to umbraco and am currently creating a website for my employer.

This site must support multiple languages. My question is how this should be implemented using umbraco.
I am considering the following approaches:

• Create a site structure once and enter different translations for each page.
  This is described here , although I'm not quite sure how much this applies to umbraco 4.5.2.
• Create different file trees for each language and fill the pages with appropriate translations, as described here

The site contains some advanced features (registration form associated with another domain, etc.), and the content of the page will be basically the same.
We may need to display some subpages only in certain languages ​​- can this be achieved with the first approach?

What would be the best way to do this with umbraco?

Thanks,
Martin

Answer 1

As always, it depends :-).

I used the approach to create different trees several times with great success several times.

I also add that I create the roots of the tree in the root of the data tree (looks like several hmoepages in the content tree in umbraco) and then use "Manage host names" (see http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/running- multiple-websites-on-one-umbraco-installation- (1) / setting-up-umbraco ) to establish which tree (and language) each host name maps to. This addition requires that it is normal to use different domains (or subdomains) for each language.

This solution provides the following benefits:

• You can use the dictionary in umbraco when translating a site.
• You may have different site trees for each language.