One website.Every language.Clearly mapped.
Lingravelix plans and designs websites for organisations in Switzerland that need to reach readers in German, French, Italian, English or more: one structure behind every version, a switcher people can find, and the signals that send each reader to the right page.
- Language structure
- Switcher design
- Hreflang and search
- Swiss formats
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Why plan the languages first
Your readers do not share one language.
Switzerland has four national languages, and Federal Statistical Office figures from the 2023 Structural Survey show German as a main language of 61 percent of residents, French 23 percent and Italian 8 percent, with English named by about 6 percent. A site that only works in one of them leaves part of its audience reading in a second language, or leaving.
Choosing which languages to offerWhat a multilingual site needs
- Language tags on every page
- A switcher named in each language
- Hreflang with return links
- Dates, numbers and CHF prices per locale
- Layouts tested with longer text
- Mirrored pages for right-to-left scripts
What we do
Multilingual websites, from map to launch.
Design, structure and technical set-up for sites in two or more languages. Translation stays with translators you choose; we make sure their words have a well-built place to go.
All eight services- Multilingual designTemplates that hold every language without breaking.
- Language navigationSwitchers people find, named in their own language.
- Hreflang set-upEvery version announced, with return links in place.
- Multilingual WordPressChoosing and configuring a translation set-up.
- Translation workflowClean handovers to your translators and back.
- Right-to-left layoutMirrored pages for Arabic and Hebrew readers.
- Locale formatsDates, numbers, prices and addresses per locale.
- Multilingual shopsProduct pages, checkout and emails in each language.
How a project runs
Six stages, in the right order.
The order matters more than the speed: structure before design, design before translation, translation before launch checks.
The process in detailFirst reply
You describe the site; a free email says whether we could help.
Written quote
A fixed price and the deliverables, before any deposit.
Map the languages
Which languages, which pages, which addresses, and who writes each version.
Design for every version
Templates tested with long German words and right-to-left text before anyone signs them off.
Place the translations
Your translators deliver; we put each text into its page and review it in the layout.
Check and launch
Hreflang, sitemaps, switchers, formats and forms are checked in every language.
Fictional examples
One site. Three language regions.
Three invented organisations show how one structure can serve German-, French- and Italian-speaking readers. None of them is a client.
Read the examples- Fictional
Frische Pasta aus Bern
German version, folder /de/
- Fictional
Pâtes fraîches de Berne
French version, folder /fr/
- Fictional
Pasta fresca di Berna
Italian version, folder /it/
Do you translate the content?
No. Lingravelix designs and builds the multilingual structure. The words come from translators you appoint, or from your own bilingual staff, and we place and check them.
Can you add French to our existing German site?
It is a project of its own: new templates or settings, a switcher, hreflang and a translation handover. The language structure review is a sensible first step to see what the current site can carry.
Which languages should a Swiss site offer?
That depends on who you serve, not on the number of national languages. Our guide to Swiss languages walks through the questions that settle it.
How are prices shown?
In Swiss francs, as starting points on the pricing page, plus VAT where applicable. Each project gets a written quote before any deposit.
Planning a site in more than one language?
Tell us which languages you need and what the site has to do. Our first answer arrives by email, costs nothing and says whether we can help.
Ask about your languages