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Drupal offers great multilanguage possibilities for your website. Drupal core already offers a way to translate the website interface AND your content (nodes) in multiple languages. Enabling multiple languages is a piece of cake and translating content is made very simple. However, you need to perform some extra tricks to get the full interface translated. For example: you might want to translate your taxonomy terms and your menu items as well. Or, also very common, using some blocks or menu-items just for a single language only.

If you use breadcrumbs in your website to help visitors navigate, you could also use these to extend the functionality of your META <title> tag. By doing so, you could change your page title (the thing displayed by search engines) from e.g. Michael Jackson is dead to Latest news > Michael Jackson is dead. Continue reading to read how to get better Page Titles with just a few lines of code.

Recently I created a book in Drupal using two Content Types. One type called Book Description (which has a cover, an ID and some other CCK fields) and another type called Book Page. So far so good. Problems arose when I tried to setup Pathauto. For the Book Description I entered book/[field_book_id-raw], which worked great. For the Book Pages I needed something like book/[field_book_id-raw]/title-of-my-page. This is where I got stuck.