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Discussion on: Converting a website to support Multilanguage after development

 
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Justin Voye

Thanks Sebastian for the response. I agree that the copy and paste solution is pretty straight forward for now but becomes a real burden later on down the road. It quite literally triples my work load whenever there's an update.

The client is well aware that each update will take longer and is OK with it until I find a better solution. They want a small button on the nav that allows you to switch to the desired language, which in this case will be another separate site entirely.

I'm interested in exploring other solutions in the long term, I don't currently know PHP and have explored using JS and JSON files to populate the text but I'm not sure if this is a more optimal solution.

Is there a JS framework that could handle this that I could incorporate? Or perhaps PHP is the way to go? Looking forward to learning how to incorporate this request to develop better websites.