Select Your Language Page is that single page you see when you arrived for the first time on a website like cocacola.com or nintendo.com, a pre-home page, with a list of options: language, country, region, etc, normally related to a big brand or name with presence all over the world or some many others sites with the idea of being seen in any country, like mini-sites or promotional sites even personal portfolios.
There are many sites who redirect you automatically to a language by your physical location, and this could be easy in normal cases but in some cases this not the best option. Let’s say you are from South America but you are in a pleasure travel by China and you don’t know a single word of Chinese, but for any reason you want to go to whateveryouwanttoputhere.com and… Taraaa, is in Chinese.
The reason, if they track your location they can know where you are and intermediately redirect you to the Chinese version of the site… three seconds later you just quit the site because you don’t like the Chinese version. But if they have givento you a Select Your Language Page, you would have made just one more click and you’d be stay much longer on that site. That’s what we all want on our site keep our visitors.
I know this kind of options are normally related to flash sites and I know the design community is not a big fan of this sites, for problems like SEO, keywords, google rank, etc.. I personally love this kind of sites, because they are impressive and interactive, and normally it means: beautiful sites with big loading times for most of them. But their objective is totally different than a blog, or forum. And designers have worked on, to create this pages like any other page on the site even if is not the most visited, so they deserve to be shown and appreciated.
Just after I finished my post about Best Coming Soon Pages, I have the idea for this post and after some time digging deep on the net and after a big list with more than 200 I finally choose the 50 Best Select Your Language Pages that could inspired you. Must of people don’t really give them to much attention; so they hopefully give you some ideas for your next project or for your personal site, if you are thinking on making in different languages.
There are not ordered by preference, only by themes.
So let’s see this collection of 50 Best Select Your Language Pages.
1. Cirque du Soleil
2. Nintendo
3. Coca Cola
4. Pepsi World
5. Oakley
6. Disney
7. Elg
8. Smirnoff
9. Havana Mojito
10. Absolut
11. Coors Light
12. 26000 Vodka
13. Ferrari
14. Lamborghini
15. Audi R8
16. Bentley
17. Hummer
18. Mini Worldwide
19. Dsinside Citroen
20. Kamaz
21. Prototype Experience
22. Smamot
23. Xperiment
24. Mcq Momies
25. Bank of Imagination
26. Nike
27. Nike Troupe Battle
28. Nike Store
29. Nike ID
30. Wee-Mee
31. Reserved
32. Greenpeace Weather
33. Disney Tower of Terror
34. Digitalic
35. Sukiland
36. Grzegorz Kapias
37. Generation Movie Project
38. Hf3 Coca Cola
39. Halo 3
40. Forza Motor Sport
41. Resident Evil 5
42. PES League
43. Fifa Ea Sports
44. Fifa Street 3
45. Fifa 09
46. Riddick
47. The Sims
48. Spore
49. Touch Generations DS
50. Simcity DS
What do you think after all this good examples, if you think I missed some you may like just let me know.
Do you like Select Your Language Pages? or you hate them?
Great web sites inspiration, thanks for sharing!
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Wow, really good idea to unique post
Bookmarking this – really comprehensive article 
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Thanks for this post!
Great idea, thanks for this tip!
Nice roundup, added on http://www.smashingpost.com/
Hello
I like Your site. It is very interesting. Do You have RSS so I can add to my favorites.
Let me know when it will be ready. Kee it UP.
regards
I found #47 to be the most eye-catching and effective.
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Interesting article. Were did you got all the information from…
@Nadine: A lot of time in the research, like one or two weeks.
Qué buena selección!!
@Maria gracias Mujer, me alegra que te guste.
Great!
Good collection!
I found some really good idea!
i played the original SimCity in the 90′s and until now i still play the latest version of SimCity;-*
This is really nice, I just want to add 1 more site to this collection… http://www.jcb.com/ Really Simple & slick design & a great site above all.. Thank You
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