Mayte Prida is a television hostess in Telemundo TV Chain, a cancer survivor, and a writer, and one of the most prominent Hispanic woman fighting for women rights and better health in the USA.
Mayte Prida needed a new version of her web-site www.mayteprida.com that could show widely her activities, and most important ,a bilingual site that can be read in both languages Spanish and English.
New graphic design
Different criteria was used in the design of this new version of the web site, a new home page was created with more navigation options and that points out certain elements as a presentation text or links to Mayte Prida’s television show, or to the Cancer Fight Foundation. The new design keeps pink as an important color (it is favorite in the fight against cancer), but not so thick, achieving an easy to read lighter screen.
Two languages one snippet
A solution was needed in the web-site in order to show the contents in Spanish as well as in English. In the previous web site, the site was divided from the page in the two languages. When the site was placed in Drupal, it produced a more elegant solution, allowing a home page with the interface it is possible visualize the site in the navigator’s language of the user. To make this possible there was used an i18n module that allows creating a node in a language, and translating it as the next step.
The selected design contains, among other elements, a designed required menu being an image, by doing so the translation of the interface that allows the i18n module, could not be used. As a first solution, the use of the taxonomy theme module was tried to designate a different theme depending of the language, but the module did not function fully since continually stopped in the last selected theme, or it changed the language, but all the texts that were images did not change.
The solution was not to use the taxonomy theme module and instead use a snippet that selects on the same theme the image to be shown, depending of the language. This way it was possible to change the language in the texts and the images of the menu, as well as the flash files, just by touching the translation block.
Used modules
i18n – to show and change between two languages
TinyMCE – to edit the texts in the nodes
Image - to manage the images and galleries
IMCE - manage the images
Translation is not easy
The i18n module is full of details and configurations that are frightening since the beginning, to learn how to use it there is an article by Dave Myburgh that explains it quite well and there is a translation to Spanish.
Summit your comments
We thank any comments on the design and the making of the site (html+css) as well as any questions regarding the use of the module.
