DNN Guide Multilingual and Multi-Country Sites

Whether you a new DNN user or a big company looking to take your business or company global by expanding your business or targeting other countries, you most likely most have thought of making your website more flexible. Flexibility in this sense refers to having multi-language sites that enhance your product and service sales or having multi-country portals in the case of organizations. This is where a DNN website has a superpower for your business. We all know that DNN is a content management system that enables programmers or users to build unique websites effortlessly and based on your business needs and specifications.

When building a website, you most likely would consider making it available in different languages, available globally, and also available based on country. In this post, we would discuss different cases or scenarios that are very important when talking about multi-languages on your website. But before we delve into that we must establish the difference between multilingual eCommerce sites and multi-country portals.

The Difference Between Multilingual and Multi-Country

One thing is sure; multilingual is not the same as multi-country. This must be taken into consideration when planning and building your dotnetnuke website for your project, business, or organization. The first case is to serve Multilingual content without any geographical distinction.

• Multilingual Content With no Geographical Distinction: This means you are making your site accessible in multiple languages in one country or globally. Take, for instance, you are offering a product or service in China knowing full well that there are different languages in China. You can make the content of your site available in both Mandarin and Cantonese. This also applies globally in that you provide the site in multi-languages while delivering the content in the same manner to everyone. For example, you can deliver the same English content to English-speaking users in the UK, US, Australia, etc. They all receive English content regardless of their geographical affiliations.
• Multi-country content for different countries: This is another instance different from the first one. In this instance, your company offers different content based on the country. For example, if you are delivering a service to both the UK and the US but the service caters to totally different industries within these countries or they present different information and audiences, it is more appropriate to make available two different websites or portals. This means that content is been dispatched or sent based on geographical location.
• Multi-country and Multilingual: The last instance is a bit of a mix between the first two instances. In this case, your company might be delivering services to two different markets in two different countries. For example, you are delivering services to markets in Germany and the US with different audiences; in this instance, you would provide two different websites or portals with different languages for their content.

Now that we have cleared the air about multi-country and multilingual eCommerce solutions, let us take a drive into how DNN can work in different scenarios or case studies.