Hi,
I have a 14 page project website that requires a french and a spanish version of it
I decided to build it using PHP.
My method would be to build 1 template web page in php and use it as a container to load the text based on whether the visitor wants french or spanish.
I am also considering just having this one page as the entire website and let php insert the text for each section/ page of the website
What i mean is e.g. :- i have a section called services and a section called products in both spanish and french. this would mean i have to build 4 web pages 2 each in spanish and french.
So my method uses on index.php page that first determines whether to use french or english. then if the use clicks on service index.php will include services information text (whether spanish or french) and if he clicks on products index.php will include the products information text. So basically istead of having all 14 web pages i will have one page the loads texts for each section
my question arises with having to submit this website to search engines. Would there be any disadvantages or down falls as a result of a website just being one web page and having to load either french or spanish?
Kendall
P.S. for the record the sites default is spanish
oh aother thing i keep having to log in everytime i come here evn do i asked to be automatically logged. i use netscape 4.72
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Here's a bunch of URLs that may help address your concern:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/succeed/
http://alistapart.zeldman.com/stories/urls/index.html
http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization.html
http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization-c.html
http://evolt.org/article/Making_clean_U ... index.html
http://www.promotiondata.com/sections.p ... le&artid=1
http://evolt.org/article/Search_Engine_ ... index.html
http://www.evolt.org/article/Search_Eng ... ex.html%22
http://webreview.com/2000/12_01/develop ... 00_1.shtml
and perhaps the one that got it all started, follow-up to a previous article,
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3.
I'm hoping, someday in the future, to try and implement this on our site.
HTH
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/succeed/
http://alistapart.zeldman.com/stories/urls/index.html
http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization.html
http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization-c.html
http://evolt.org/article/Making_clean_U ... index.html
http://www.promotiondata.com/sections.p ... le&artid=1
http://evolt.org/article/Search_Engine_ ... index.html
http://www.evolt.org/article/Search_Eng ... ex.html%22
http://webreview.com/2000/12_01/develop ... 00_1.shtml
and perhaps the one that got it all started, follow-up to a previous article,
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3.
I'm hoping, someday in the future, to try and implement this on our site.
HTH