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ELGA LabWater
ELGA LabWater is a subsidiary of Veolia Water, a world leader in water treatment. It manufactures and delivers water purification systems for research, science, clinical and healthcare environments.
multi-lingual
The ELGA LabWater website, built on Tribiq CMS, is a true multi-lingual site, being delivered in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
The site has full encoding for UTF-8 Unicode, which is necessary for the 4-byte character sets of Japanese and Chinese.
The site has true multi-language support, with content synchronized across the various language versions of equivalent pages. In addition, the occasional phrases which are used on the site, such as "Search Results", are also translated, so that visitors achieve a truly localized experience.
The site auto-detects the visitor's language based on available data, and directs the visitor to the home page in the appropriate language where possible.
map-based worldwide distributor finder
A further feature of the site is the "Your local contact" area, which is a map-based navigation tool. A visitor can use an interactive Flash map to navigate around the world and identifiy their country.
This is a friendly experience for the visitor, but also a system which is easy to manage.
Although ELGA has a presence in over 100 countries, the data for this system - the addresses of the Distributors - is stored in the Tribiq Organization Manager, which has a full administrative system.
This means the system is low in maintenance, and avoids the need to update the Flash SWF just because the Distributor data changes.
multilingual websites
We have built many sites with multi-language support.
Our Tribiq CMS is a powerful platform for creating a site which displays in several languages.
the right platform
On a Tribiq site, pages are kept in "chains", so that there is a relationship between the pages, but without the compulsion to have every page in every language.
This helps administrators keep content in sync across the various languages.
Our CMS stores all website data using UTF-8 storage, so that characters of all languages, including Chinese, are represented correctly.
auto-detection
When a visitor arrives at your site, we attempt auto-detection of the visitor's language, using browser preferences.
A second line of detection can involve auto-detection of the visitor's country, with the correct language being set according to that location.
Thirdly, your site may be registered under multiple top-level domains (such as tribiq.de, tribiq.fr), and we can use to determine which page to send new visitors to.
Finally there are manual selectors, for language and/or country. These allow visitors to override other settings, to choose the language and even the specific content for visitors from a given country.
administrator tools
On the Administrator side, a powerful Plugin is available: Advanced Visitor Language Support (AVLS).
This extends the Language Pack concept, and adds to the simple Language Switcher plugin.
AVLS allows site owners to maintain pairings - or chains - of Content Items, which contain essentially the same meaning, but are presented in different languages.
export and translate
Every page of your site can be exported as a text file for emailing to an external translator, who can translate the page and send it back to you.
With a single click, you can import the translated page, thereby adding a new language to your site.