News Drupal Book: Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites by Kristen Pol

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• Understand the Drupal 7 localization structure and process
• Enable your Drupal UI to display in different languages
• Localize users based on language and country
• Employ effective search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for your multilingual site
• Update blocks, menus, views, and panels to work with multiple languages
• Set up language detection based on URLs, sessions, cookies, or domains
• Create translatable content types to support multilingual content

 Download sample chapters in PDF format.

• Chapter 1: Multilingual Overview, Use Cases, and Modules
• Considerations and use cases
• Different types of language support
• Some things to think about
• Example use cases
• Simple blog site
• Consulting company site
• E-commerce site
• Our demo site
• Multilingual Drupal overview
• Speaking the same language... terminology
• Pieces of the multilingual puzzle
• Interface
• Content
• Configuration
• A look at the modules
• Summary
  
  
  • Chapter 2: Setting up the Basics: Languages, UI Translation, and System Settings
  • Getting up and running
  • Using your own site
  • Using the demo site
  • Roles, users, and permissions
  • Working with languages
  • Adding languages with the Locale module
  • Detecting languages
  • URL
  • Session
  • User
  • Browser
  • Default
  • Detection method order
  • Our choice
  • Switching between languages
  • Interface and string translations
  • Translating the interface
  • Automatic translation updates
  • Adding and fixing interface translations
  • Contributing translations back to the community
  • Translating English strings
  • Modifying the settings.php file
  • Using the String Overrides module
  • Creating a custom English language
  • Reusing custom translated strings
  • General system configuration
  • Updating regional settings
  • Date and time formats
  • Translating site variables
  • Customizing the contact form
  • Summary
  
  
  
  
  
  • Chapter 3: Working with Content
  • Nodes
  • Enabling multilingual support
  • Node translation model
  • Configuring node translation
  • Synchronizing shared fields
  • Extra content type options
  • Field translation model
  • Configuring field translation
  • Using the language switcher
  • Non-node entities
  • Comments
  • Language assignment
  • Comment display
  • Users
  • Taxonomy terms
  • Custom entities
  • Node listing and search pages
  • Home page
  • Taxonomy term pages
  • Search
  • Summary
  
  
  
  
  • Chapter 4: Configuring Blocks, Menus, Taxonomy, and Views
  • Blocks
  • Language-specific blocks
  • Translating blocks
  • Blocks provided by modules
  • Menus
  • Language-specific menus
  • Multilingual menus
  • Node pages
  • Pages with the same link
  • Pages with different links
  • Taxonomy terms
  • Taxonomy translation module
  • Language-independent terms
  • Language-specific terms
  • Localized terms
  • Mixed-language vocabulary
  • Updating the field label
  • Views
  • Multilingual views
  • Language-specific views
  • Nodes using field translation
  • Non-node views
  • Comments
  • Taxonomy terms
  • Users
  • Views text
  • Summary
  
  
  
• Chapter 5: Panels, SEO, and More!
• Panels
• Panel panes
• Language-specific panel pages
• SEO
• Multilingual and international SEO
• Friendly URLs
• Removing special characters from path aliases
• Page title and meta tags
• Meta Tags module
• Meta Tags Quick module
• Page Title module
• Home page optimization
• Duplicate pages
• Translation management and workflow
• Who can translate?
• Content administration
• Contributed modules
• Lingotek Collaborative Translation module
• Translation Management Tool module
• Custom workflow
• Theming and module development
• RTL support
• Interface and content languages
• Custom CSS
• String translation functions
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