After posting on the forum a few weeks ago http://forum.umbraco.org/yafpostst9775Multilingual-Quicky.aspx regarding difficulties i was encountering regarding implementing a multilingual site espically that of linking to equivalent pages in a different language, i thought i'd share the Umbraco love with a possible alternative solution that i've managed to implement.

My current structure is set up as:-

Content
Home
Some folder
some page
Homecy
Some foldercy
some pagecy

(homecy is named in the actual welsh language within umbraco but for illustration purposes called it homecy here)

my site can be viewed at www.ystrad-mynach.ac.uk . i have placed a language selection tab at the top of the page for english and welsh. One of the problems i was faced with initially was that how i saw a multilingual site working is that if i was on a content page inside a site that selecting say the welsh option should take me to the welsh equivalent of that page. Whilst this could have been done via the 1:1 tutorial http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/multilingual-11-sites i didnt want to use this option mainly for SEO reasons plus in time not every page might have a language equivalent.

So my solution was

I created 2 tabs as a textstring within my document type for "Link English" and Link Welsh". On each content page then i manually typed in the language equivalent of that particular page e.g /course-searchcy.aspx

within my template i then inserted an umbraco page field for the Link English and Link Welsh e.g

[code]cymraegenglish[/code]

Whilst not perhaps a perfect solution it is certainly an alternative which some people may find useful.