How to make a multi country web site? (Best practices)

[eluser]simonmaddox[/eluser]
[quote author="Nonox" date="1231289711"]Hi.
I have to make a website that supports various content depending the visitor country. At the moment I have wrote the script for ip-to-country and lang detection.
But I have a doubt, Which is the best practices for this type of website?
Divide the structure in different directories for each country? and repeat all the programmings site countless times?
Note that the design and functionality are the same for all countries, just change some images, text and some link.
My intention is to make the user feel comfortable with the site and be able to use certain terms for each country.

Thanks a lot for any advice!
Nonox[/quote]

For loading different languages of your site, have a look here:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...guage.html

Make sure that, when you automatically detect the visitor's country and language, that you provide them with a simple way of changing it.

If I'm in Italy, I'll get the site in Italian. I don't have any idea how to speak Italian, so I won't want to go hunting through the site to try and change the language back to English.

For example, Amazon provides links to their other international websites in the footer of every page.