Sarah Highlen

Facebook announced last week that it would automatically upgrade all brand pages to a new layout on March 30th. What does the new layout mean for your brand?

There’s a lot to consider in planning multilingual website development. Following are a few simple tips to guide the process and help ensure a usable website with easily accessible multilingual content.

• Never use the language name as a link to specific content.
• Create parallel sites with mirrored hierarchy.
• Offer toggling between languages.
• Avoid machine translation at all costs.
• Partner with an expert.

Keep reading for details on each of these multilingual website tips.

What other [real estate/financial/education/chamber/non-profit/etc.] websites have you developed? This is one of the first questions clients often ask us before hiring us to design and develop a website. It makes perfect sense for a client to consider a web development agency’s familiarity with their industry. As it turns out, though, it’s not the most important measure of compatibility.

A content management system, or CMS, enables organizations to manage and update their website content in-house, without the need for technical skills. The CMS also serves as sort of a development platform that the web developer will build on (including creating functionality that may not “come with” the CMS).

If you’re thinking about choosing a CMS, here are a few questions to get you started.