Does anyone here have two (or more) sites for one hosting company? ie: You have a site for country 1 and another site for country 2.

How do you manage everything? Do you have two website templates using Dreamweaver or something? Do you have one "main" set of webpages that are common and you upload to the two different hosting accounts?

Do you have two completely seperate sites? (ie: even though 95% of the pages are identical, you maintain two copies.. one for each country.)

I'm just curious to know how others are doing this.. I've recently started marketing into my home country and I'm finding it a headache to try and keep the various pages all in synch.

Thanks for any advice.

While I don't personally, I've seen sites using sub-domains for such requirements.

ie. en.yoursite.com, it.yoursite.com, nl.yoursite.com etc.


Lats...

It all depends which country you are targeting to. Making the site as per the country taste and feel surely helps.

Originally posted by KShoK
It all depends which country you are targeting to. Making the site as per the country taste and feel surely helps.

Thanks. But I'm actually looking for some technical opinions on how to best manage the "two seperate sites" problem when 95% of the content is identical.

Anyone have any suggestions, hints, advice or opinions on how to best handle this situation?

We have both a UK and US/Worldwide site, we are also planning to open more worldwide presences soon. We basically have one set of PHP files and depending on the URL, they pull up a different set of templates (either UKFT [UK Facing Template] or USFT [US Facing Template]). However we have global templates set for things like the header and footer.