TRANSLATION INTO ARABIC

As explained in the Introduction to this Guide - the World Wide Web is an international resource - it is not a universal translator.

Also remember that the ‘language’ of the World Wide Web is HTML (Hypertext Mark-Up Language) primarily written using the Latin (Western European) alphabet. For this reason, when we look at the code behind our pages on a website it is written in English and it is advised that all file and folder names are also written in English.

There are, however, a number of ways to produce Arabic content on your pages, and we will look at two options.
For both options, first go into your Root Folder on your hard drive and add a new folder which we will call arabic (remember all small lower case latin letters for file and folder names).

Open Dreamweaver; go into the pages folder and open each page, including the index (your home page), then ‘save as’ into the new arabic folder putting a small a_ infront of the file name. e,g about will become a_ about or structure will become a_structure. Do not use Arabic file or folder names.

Option one:
Open each page in your arabic folder one-by-one. In Dreamweaver go to Modify > Page Properties > Document Encoding > Other.

Make sure your keyboard is Aracbic ernabled and text aligned right then type in the text.