Drupal Camp 2012

NOTE: This website is an archive of the 2012 Stanford Drupal Camp. The current year's Stanford Drupal Camp website is at http://drupalcamp.stanford.edu

Creating multilingual Drupal 7 websites (part one)

Track(s):

Content Management

Track(s):

Development

Track(s):

Site Building

Speaker(s):

Kristen Pol

Why should you create a Drupal website that supports more than one language or a language besides English?

There are more non-English native speakers in the world than English native speakers.
You can expand your audience across languages.
You can promote your site in other countries.
Users are more likely to buy products and services when a website is in their native language.

NOTE: Beginning Drupalers are welcome. As long as you know the Drupal basics (how to add a content type, block, menu, etc.) then you should be able to follow along.

I will be raffling off a copy of my new Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites book! (one in each talk)

Creating a multilingual Drupal website isn't rocket science, but it's not very simple either. And, in Drupal 7, things have gotten a lot more interesting because of the transition from CCK to entity fields. This session will go over the basics of creating a multilingual Drupal 7 website. It will be broken up into two sessions to cover more topics. I could offer a third session for even more topics if there is enough interest (please leave comments).

Here's a first pass at the topics for each session. This will be based on my new book that just came out:

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites :) http://kristen.org/book

Part One