Exploring Contentful for Translation and Localization It seems there is a new buzzword in the website building industry: headless CMS (Content Management System). But what is exactly a headless CMS and how does it work? In this write-up, I am going to walk you through the different steps of how I explored one of the most popular headless CMSs, Contentful; how I created a simple website with it; and what approaches I took to localize the website into another language. In the end, I realized that I needed a completely different mindset on website building and localization in general. And I had a clear vision of when a headless CMS is useful and when it is recommended to use a traditional CMS, like WordPress, instead. Finally, I learned a lot about Node.js, Gatbsy.js, website deployment, and the many challenges i18n problems introduced into the subject. Part 1: Headless CMS & Contentful What is headless CMS? A headless CMS is a platform that has no default front-end system to determin...
Exploring the l10n and i18n worlds; a perspective of a localizer and translator