Tips for making English stations using DEDECMS

English webmaster in China often encounter to use the Chinese version of the CMS or BBS, blog to build English web site, but many programs because of http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/22339.html "> Domestic user Design , so there is no official English version, such as Ecshop and Dede CMS, Discuz,zblog is also the use of English language packs to achieve, so two times to develop into a more popular topic.

I am doing a big project these days, is to change the Dede to do the English station, originally want to do with Joomla, but Joomla speed really let me collapse, and backstage complex program simply let me marvel, can say Joomla is a good program, too excellent, So complicated as to be proficient in it is too difficult.

So I turned around and thought about it, or decided to use DEDECMS to do the English station. It seems that a lot of people are taking Dede to do the English station, a lot of people hang there is no flow, reason 1th I in the previous English station development Promotion Experience series has mentioned the problem of data flooding, the reason for the 2nd is lack of interaction.

Changed to have 3 days, the first day, modify the template for UTF-8 mode, originally want to modify into ISO-8859 format, the official PM a few administrators asked this change there is no problem, export words will be wrong, the result of a ignore me, depressed, forget, simply changed to UTF-8 format. Adjust the width of the template, color, etc., which refer to a lot of foreign related topics of the site. From the style of Joomla picked a logo to the top of a stick, easy.

The next day, modify the details, put several main pages, the Chinese, the full-width sign all get rid of, the full-width comma may everyone attention, but the full angle semicolon seemingly attention of people, here to remind peers. Remove or change the instructions in the Code to English. Part of the home page click on the picture or advertising to consider the habit of using the mouse right hand of foreign people. Wrote a few pages, including copyright, privacy, about, contact, and so on, and specifically to apply for a MSN, MSN Friends Remember to add oh, more exchanges, msn:youyouljj@gmail.com

The third day, that is, today, the morning again to modify the template, including the definition of picture size, to prevent the bursting frame, the homepage of the slide and merry-go size. In the afternoon, the most important part, SEARCH, comments and other pages of the overall English culture, this may be overlooked by many people, foreigners prefer to have exchanges, comments and so on, you do not want him to see some of the Martian text it? Have not finished, rest, write down this article, hope to use Dede to do English station friends helpful.

Most of the webmaster want to do an English station to improve this situation, but many people did not do. In addition to language unfamiliar, the choice of CMS is certainly also bothering everyone. There are no lack of excellent CMS system, Joomla. The mambo is thunderclap, but the operating habits of these systems are clearly different from ours. Therefore, many people are asking, can we use the familiar Dede to do a decent English station? Oh, now get to the point

This article for the crowd: 1, familiar with the Dede, at least with Dede did a Chinese station of 2, do not intend to do the English garbage station webmaster.

People to be thankful for: fat-Rocky, Yuhong

First of all, preliminary preparation:

First, you want to download a FAT Dragon modified version of the DEDE4.0UTF-8 version

Then buy a foreign space, the domain name should at least be. com, the long point does not matter, as long as it is related to your topic words to spell it, such as: my-freewebhosts-center.com and so on. Buy domestic does not matter, but DNS resolution must be replaced by foreign

Down, is to install Utf-8 dede ...

After installation, look at the front desk, has become the English version of the

Start to do the template, you can imitate the English station to do.