Drupal Translation teaches how to create multilingual Drupal sites from zero. It's meant to serve as a guide for beginner and intermediate level users who need to implement a basic site with multilingual contents.
The site uses a free open theme and no custom PHP in order to deliver its contents. This shows how to do a textbook multilingual site using Drupal 6 and the i18n module.
Right now, it explains the basics:
- Module install and activation
- Configuration for different content types and fields to localize
- Entering and managing translations
- Visitor language negotiation
As we're moving forward, we plan to include more advanced material, such as taxonomy term translation, CCK translation and views translation.
The site's contents are available in English (original contents), German and Spanish. German and Spanish translations are created and maintained using the ICanLocalize Translator. The site shows how multilingual contents is maintained in full (including menu items, internal link translation, paths, etc.) by offloading the translation work.