Hi everyone,
the French Language version of PlanetJudo is now live at http://www.planetjudo.com/french and is our second language specific version of Planet Judo after Ibai helped create http://www.planetjudo.com/spanish
Along with the new version, I have made some small changes to the site like adding different flags, a favicon and improving the speed performance for the Spanish site (hopefully anyway).
The French site only has a small number of feeds and the translation is not good. I’d appreciate any help you might be able to give in getting the terminology correct.
Lastly… I have added a donate button to the front page http://www.planetjudo.com As the site is getting bigger and more popular, the bandwidth consumption keeps going up as does the storage for the website. This all costs money to keep online, so if you find the site useful to you and have a few bucks/pounds/euros to spare, please consider clicking on the donate button on the front page and supporting the cause.
Whats next?
The next steps I’d like to take with the site are to create a German language version of the site in the short term and to completely re-write the code that runs the site in the long term. German was the close second in the vote that saw French chosen as the latest language version, so I’d like to progress that in the next month or so (any German speakers able to help?). I am also contemplating a Japanese version.
In the longer term, I would like to look in depth at the code that runs in the background to see if I can make it run faster. And more importantly to try and make the process of managing the site, adding new languages, etc easier and less work. I also want to lessen the load on the server. So again a few donations would really show me that people care about the site and the service it provides bringing all the Judo blogs together to make them easier to follow and easier to find.
Of course, if you find any problems on the site, just email me ( lw@judocoach.com ).
Yours in Judo,
Lance