Re: linking to pub files in more languages

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Dear David,
Thank you for your reply. However, I feel I have done exactly that; the
original Dutch page is in the main folder and the translation in German is in
the subfolder /deutsch, both the html file and the file folder. I have now
tried to make the hyperlink to the pub file instead of the html file, but
that does not help. When you click on the hyperlink, you just see the pathway
to the file on my hard disk.
The URL for our site is http://www.drei-tuerme.com (nice site!?); the
hyperlinks to the sites in English and French are links to copied pages
within the same pub file, which is an emergency solution untill the other
linking stuff works (since if I copy pages within the same pub file, the
navigation bar changes too - as you know of course - ). Hope that you can
help out here - we are a small guesthouse, and are sort of handicaped without
website for the international guests...
Thanks,
Susan

"DavidF" wrote:

There are many ways to create a multi-language site, but I think that
http://www.somoscapazes.org/ uses one of the easiest. The trick is how you
organize the files on your host, but it requires the use of just two Pub
files...one in Spanish and one in English...and one subfolder on your site.

If you load http://www.somoscapazes.org/ and mouseover the link to the
English version (a text box in the upper left corner "English"), then look
in the status bar, you will see the link is:
http://www.somoscapazes.org/english/index.htm . What they did on this site
is to create one subfolder called "english" on the host on the root
directory. They use two Publisher files...one for English, one in Spanish.
The primary language is Spanish, so when they produce those web files by
Publish to the Web, they get the index.htm file and the index_files folder,
and they upload them to the root directory on their site...they don't use a
subfolder. Using the second Publisher file, the English version, they
Publish to the Web and once again produce an index.htm file and an
index_files folder, and upload those to the "english" subfolder that is at
the same level in the directory as the index.htm file and the index_files
folder for the Spanish version.

If you still can't figure it out, please post the URL of your site and we
will try to help you troubleshoot the issue.

DavidF

"Susan" <Susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C963B00C-BB52-44EA-9B9F-AD8D4398E0C2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Our website should be in more than 1 language. Using the info from this
forum, I have created multiple publisher files with sort of buttons on the
first page to do the linking. However, the links are there - the pathway
is
mentioned when the link is clicked - but the page is not shown.

What I did: I made one pub file, used Publish to the web - so the html
file
called index is made and the file folder as well. Did the same for the
other
languages, and put those in subdirectories, since they are all called
index
(I learned the hard way that if you change your index name to e.g.
index_NL
for the Dutch site the site won't open at all..). The hyperlinks were made
to
the html file, not the pub file. Then I made a subdirectory in the website
in
Ippswitch Home and copied the files to that directory.



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