Hi guelphdad, I take your point but.....

I really admire the rest of the developers design work - he does a great job in Photoshop and writes impeccable HTML and CSS that validates throughout. It is just this database design aspect where we seem to be at odds with each other. I get on really well with the guy and, to be fair to him, it is the first time that either of us have come across this added complication of handling several different languages simultaneously. That's why it is so important to me to get as many views as possible - to ensure that we go down the right path together!