Hello

I am new in this forum, but this topic just hit my lane.

Several ways to work with one domain xxx.com.

1) one would just lunk to several parallel sites (javascript) not very so good! (Pardon my french)Search Engine do not like javascript.

2) other solution flags and go with online machine translation. Not very good because machine translation requires a lot of humor from the user. However some languages might work: you can have en english text and translate into Chinese, that will make it 60-80% correct. The chinese will understand it. But yiou cannot translate the other way. English language have different grammer, prepositions, tense etc. Chinese, Japanese language have not.

3) Manual translation. Get a powerfull CMS that support multilingual, that will keep track of what has been translated on what not. I use Joomla CMS. This is the best soution, translators may sit in different counties and fill in their language translation part online and with immediate publishing..

Note: Beijing 2008 is coming up! Have your site ready in asian languages, listed on asian searchengines etc. - AND/AND/AND - be aware of encoding problems!!! Simplified Chinese - used in mainland China - GB2312 - and Trad. Chinese uesed in Taiwan - Big5. There are huge encoding problems that has not been solved yet. But most encoding are now switching to Utf-8, which has handle the Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian languages much better.

I am a teacher and have some demo sites which you can locate at http://goldschadt.com - your multilingual web portal builder. Site is in progress - your recommendations to improve will be greatly apprciated. I might want to go into business!

Thanx

Poul