Just Vision is an organization that, through award-winning media, community outreach and an array of educational tools, informs, connects and engages people in Palestinian-Israeli civilian efforts to resolve the conflict nonviolently.  

OpenConcept was lucky enough to work with this passionate organization to help them develop a truly unique Drupal-based website. Just Vision had previously implemented another CMS solution and as such, had an existent, complex database that linked interviews from a diverse selection of 'peacebuilders' on a variety of themes. Developing the appropriate taxonomies and linking interviews with themes, footnotes, glossary terms and profiles was challenging but something that Drupal was able to handle well using content types and taxonomies.

You can visit the Just Vision website at http://www.justvision.org

The more challenging aspects of developing the Just Vision site revolved around the Arabic/Hebrew text, which required the use of Tendu(right-to-left Drupal theme). We used the Internationalization module to handle the multilingual content, which worked quite well. However, there were many other areas of the website for which translation proved difficult. Menus, blocks, CCK fields, views, string and taxonomy terms all needed translation and often had different modules for each.

If you are interested in multilingual Drupal development, send us an email and we'd be happy to have a chat! Here is a list of the modules that were used for translation:

• Block translation
• CCK translation
• Content type translation
• Internationalization
• Localization client
• Menu translation
• String translation
• Taxonomy translation
• Translation overview
• Language sections
• Select translation
• Views translation