In the previous chapter we learned about expanding the capabilities and features of Drupal. In this chapter we will look at expanding our readership.
The internet makes the world a smaller place. You might create a blog or online store, assuming that your users will be domestic, and be surprised to find that some of them are half a world away. Then, after consideration, you might realize that with most of the world living somewhere outside your own country, global readership can expose your content to many more people.
There is a complicating factor, though. Many of these users—perhaps most—do not speak the same language. You could leave it up to the reader's browser to translate the content, but let's be honest, instantaneous translation such as that provided by Google is problematic at the least with regard to straightforward...