Last week we successfully deployed a multi-lingual website for our client, Railway Asset Corporation. The original website was developed on our in-house website framework, but we decided it was not robust enough to effectively handle multiple languages. After extensive research, we set our hearts on the popular open-source website content development framework, Drupal.

Thus we started from scratch, and managed to complete the project in about 2 weeks. The design was maintained, but we implemented the following for the new website:

• web-standard based design
• version control for easier content management
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• performance enhancers via Drupal's caching engine

Now visitors to the new RAC website can view choose between the two languages from the front page, and switch between them easily on the pages themselves. Visitors benefit from improved user experience, and can get to their desired content fast.