Internationalization Work Flow with poedit

un flag Internationalization (i18n) has come a long way since I wrote my first multilingual website way back in 2000. In that era, we just swapped out entirely different sets of templates, which, of course, made it very difficult to keep the two sets in synch.

With the Zend_Translate module of Zend Framework, it is possible to do it with just one set of templates and focus on just the text. CSS wizards can make whatever layout changes they need regarding placement and alignment if we need to support right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, and Zend Translate can provide the texts.
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Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery?

One of the reasons why I always cringed from web front end in the past is that presentation is so “dirty.”  We have all felt the flames.

HTML was never really designed as a presentation language
confusion of XHTML validations and the different DOCTYPES
CSS is supposed to be for design
browser wars and their . . . → Read More: Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery?