Create project for multilingual websites

Sometimes large websites have multilingual capabilities which present users with their native language. Users generally also have the ability to select their language preference through a language switcher:

Example language switcher

 

The localized language website generally will have their URLs structured in one of the ways below:

Full domain name

For example, the local language/region website might look like:

  • http://www.example.com
  • http://www.example.co.uk
  • http://www.example.com.cn

Subdomain

For example, the local language website might look like:

  • http://es.example.com
  • http://da.example.com

Subdirectory

For example, the local language website might look like:

  • http://www.example.com/es
  • http://www.example.com/da

Subsequently, contents under each site, you might have URLs that look like

https://www.example.com/da/kontakt https://www.example.com/da/om

For subdomains, you will have to create a project for each domain name in Trakr by default. Let’s focus more on the case for the subdirectory.

Creating projects for subdirectory website

It is recommended for multilingual websites on subdirectories to be created as separate projects. For example: