Does any of you have any ideas on multi-lingual site design? I'm looking for some resources/guides that'll show me the exact technique of achieving this...

I am NOT looking for the Google Translate kind of option, where you've got a bunch of buttons on your site - clicking on which, will pass your page through Google Translator producing a totally garbled grammatical output in another language...

What I want is to define every Text Element on the site as variables and depending on the lanugage of your choice, these variables are filled in from pre-defined language files containing key-value pair declarations of the same.

I know this is very much possible in Firefox extensions - how do you go about doing the same for web-pages ?

Thanks,
m^e