The Bivings Gorup recently launched what is easily, as far as we are aware, one of the most advanced multilingual sites made in Drupal ever built. The International Journalists’ Network, or IJNet can be seen here: www.ijnet.org. The website, built for the non-profit organization International Center For Journalists (ICFJ), leverages Drupal’s built in multilingual capabilities together with a number of custom fixes and changes.
Key challenges included:
- Creating a flexible page layout interface that allowed site administrators to easily create and customize sections in both left and right columns, giving them new colors, any kind of custom or dynamic content, as well as being able to define their own section colors.
- Having full-featured mutilingual social elements on the site, including user profiles, inter-user messaging, user networking, user network activity feeds, user comment posting, user article posting, and many other dynamic social elements.
- Enabling users to easily view the site in right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Persian.
- Creating custom displays of the site for low resolution monitors.
- Creating a platform suitable for managing mutliple mailing lists for use with third party mail systems.
- Allowing the client to easily add new languages to the platform when desired.
The International Center For Journalists administers IJNet and creates its content in five different languages, and counting…
Take a look at the site at www.ijnet.org and let us know what you think!
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