Every day my mind wanders with the endless possibilities of Drupal, and at night I lose sleep over it, too. Thanks guys and gals for make one rockin' CMS. And Jose, your i18n module is quite incredible.
I wanted to share my first bilingual Drupal site:
http://www.brazosvotes.org/
It's an informational site to inform local citizens of county and local voting and elections. While I built it, its content is almost completely administered by the county clerk, and all translations are done by a county clerk non-techie employee.
Technicals: The site is built atop Books and Pages. There is a standard-issue nodes/news deal, in which there is only one news item (set Sticky to act as a welcome msg). The main part I wish to showcase is use of i18n to provide content mirrored 1:1 in English and Spanish. You can click back and forth with the flags at any point in the site. I also imported a couple live translations of my own like "Home" reads "Inicio" in the Drupal default breadcrumb trail when in Spanish. I am using tinyMCE for rich text editing, Upload for attaching PDFs to content, a custom PHP script for job application requests, Contact, and SMTP to override Drupal's mail calls. It's a multidomain site using symlinks to allow .com and .net to point in (btw: did you know that setting a symlink named the IP will also work?).
Things I haven't yet figured out:
- why my PDFs come up SaveAs instead of showing in the browser. I am letting Drupal manage private/public file access for each Upload.