Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 02:03:16 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>, www@freebsd.org, jordan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Select a server near you menu Message-ID: <6413.862304596@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:40:59 %2B0200." <l03010d00af8b5f08429e@[194.45.188.81]>
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> And, why not have a part of the page that tells you where you are?
> ("Welcome to the main FreeBSD Web server." or "Willkommen auf dem deutschen
> FreeBSD-Webserver.")
Hmmmm. Well, if we were trying to do this the way a corporation would
do it, we'd have all pages standardize on a set of menus or a nice
looking imagemap of some sort (perhaps saying "Welcome" in 5 or 6
different languages, arrayed on points of a star) which allowed you
to change your location or language type at will. You should also be able
to tell immediately that you're at "dem deutschen FreeBSD-Webserver"
by the fact that:
a) All the text is probably in German.
b) The imagemap/menu will be set to say "Deutsch/Germany" by
default. If it's an imagemap, the german section of the
graphic might even be "lit" (I saw this recently on another
vendor's pages and it was a pretty slick effect).
> I think we should provide for localization in the build process whereever
> it makes sense.
Yep. We need to localize both for the content and for the web server
(WWW stats, FTP download counts by region, etc).
[The FTP download stats on www.domain.freebsd.org are just a pipe-dream
for now. :)]
Jordan
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