TeamExtreme
11-14-2011, 07:49 PM
Hi
I love the simplicity and yet powerful tool you have created for us. Now, even non-proffesional webdesigners like myself are able to create some really awesome webpages! :)
Being a developer myself, I do understand that in order to keep it simple and clean, you cannot give in to every change request coming your way. But still, I can't help myself requesting for two new features that would help make Snappages climb up and be able to mingle with the big-guns!
First:
I really, really would like to be able to have the option to make multilingual pages; meaning having several copies of the original native language pages in whatever language we translate them into.
There exists to ways of solving this in SnapPages today, and non of them are in my opinion good enough for multilingual sites:
Google Translate is nice when you by pure accident happens to be on a non-native page (could be german, spanish, turkish or any other page), and try to figure out what the page is all about. Google Translate is simply not good enough for me to re-visit any such site on a regular basis. The auto-translated pages will never be able to express the text as good as any author of the pages would.
Create Multiple Sites is a way to complicated solution to the problem. For instance, how would one copy content, layout and other stuff from the native language pages to all of the non-native language pages, on different sites? The answer: you wouldn't, it's too complicated, time-consuming and it would be very difficult to have any form of quality assurance when doing it.
My suggestion?
A neat solution would be to simply let us have a two-level navigation bar:
Ie. with both English, German and Norwegian pages you could organize your pages like this:
Home EnglishNewsAbout usStart GermanThemenUnternehmenHjem NorskNyheterOm ossYou may not even have to change any existing themes to make this happen, only to make new themes, with this two-level navigation bar included. I would gladly pay extra to have this feature :)
Second, please! incorporate true anchors into SnapPages, so that we may be able to link within the same page. The suggested solution with documents stored in Google Documents is only a workaround, -and even if I'm a fan of workarounds, this is not simple enough, and require us to have our content spread "all over the web".
I look forward to hearing from you, and please keep up the good work! ;)
PS. Hopefully my german example wasn't that bad.. :)
Best Regards
Johnny
I love the simplicity and yet powerful tool you have created for us. Now, even non-proffesional webdesigners like myself are able to create some really awesome webpages! :)
Being a developer myself, I do understand that in order to keep it simple and clean, you cannot give in to every change request coming your way. But still, I can't help myself requesting for two new features that would help make Snappages climb up and be able to mingle with the big-guns!
First:
I really, really would like to be able to have the option to make multilingual pages; meaning having several copies of the original native language pages in whatever language we translate them into.
There exists to ways of solving this in SnapPages today, and non of them are in my opinion good enough for multilingual sites:
Google Translate is nice when you by pure accident happens to be on a non-native page (could be german, spanish, turkish or any other page), and try to figure out what the page is all about. Google Translate is simply not good enough for me to re-visit any such site on a regular basis. The auto-translated pages will never be able to express the text as good as any author of the pages would.
Create Multiple Sites is a way to complicated solution to the problem. For instance, how would one copy content, layout and other stuff from the native language pages to all of the non-native language pages, on different sites? The answer: you wouldn't, it's too complicated, time-consuming and it would be very difficult to have any form of quality assurance when doing it.
My suggestion?
A neat solution would be to simply let us have a two-level navigation bar:
Ie. with both English, German and Norwegian pages you could organize your pages like this:
Home EnglishNewsAbout usStart GermanThemenUnternehmenHjem NorskNyheterOm ossYou may not even have to change any existing themes to make this happen, only to make new themes, with this two-level navigation bar included. I would gladly pay extra to have this feature :)
Second, please! incorporate true anchors into SnapPages, so that we may be able to link within the same page. The suggested solution with documents stored in Google Documents is only a workaround, -and even if I'm a fan of workarounds, this is not simple enough, and require us to have our content spread "all over the web".
I look forward to hearing from you, and please keep up the good work! ;)
PS. Hopefully my german example wasn't that bad.. :)
Best Regards
Johnny