eTelesis.com

e-Telesis is a consortium of international companies who work together and spend a great deal of time in many developing countries.  Working closely with local communities and workers to provide clean, renewable energy and access to digital broadband that is best suited to the needs of the local people, be that solar power, wind power or high quality data connections.

What we did...

The eTelesis group approached Squashed Pixel to initially look at working on their existing website. The first step we took was to install Google Analytics on their existing site, gather data and analyse the results. After a short period of time it quickly became apparent that firstly, their customers were finding the site but not successfully engaging or spending any significant time on the site and that secondly, a large proportion of their visitors we're from non-English speaking countries. The natural solution to this problem was to produce a multi-language capable website that could be managed and updated in each language by a dedicated employee native to each relevant language.  Using the open source CMS SilverStripe we designed and built a simple to use website that could easily be translated and maintained in each of these languages. Using a combination of SilverStripe's inbuilt multi language capabilities and several language based modules we produced a site that, through the one installation can both have alternative language versions of the English Version pages but also supports independent language specific pages.