jekyll-plurlingva

Jekyll-plurlingva is a skeleton for the creation of multilingual static websites, based on jekyll.
Its purpose is to keep it light and simple.

Its most striking features:

• design on two columns:

  • left drop-down menu, with: the choice of language, Google search on the site and the menu of the site.

  • on the right the main content.

• adapted to websites Github Pages .

• all possibilities of jekyll.

• can be used to create a blog, or a simple website with just a menu on the left.

• Scripts allow you to automatically translate the pages of your language into all the languages ​​of the website.

• the translations are managed by po files:

  • if you edit or add a paragraph on a page, only that paragraph needs to be retranslated.

  • you can send this file to a human translator for correction.

• Automatically translated texts are indicated by a section that offers the document in the human-corrected languages.

• The translations use Esperanto as a pivotal language. This choice may seem strange at first glance, but it has several advantages:

  • it is a language with a simple grammar and no exceptions, so it is easier to manage for software translators. .

  • it is a very precise language, generating less ambiguity than English.

  • it is very easy to learn, whatever the language of the learner.

To see jekyll multilingual in action, go for example to the website https://jmichault.github.io.