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?

Here we go with the video of the week section where I bring to you a great inspirational video found on internet throughout the work week, it could be a motion graphics or an animation, 2d or 3d, even a trailer or music video with some great design and graphic techniques.

This week as the first of these series, I have a great video about a story everybody knows on earth i think, the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, the idea of his creator  was to give a whole new style and interpretation to this great fairytale, and I think he made it, help also by a great music background.

Made by Tomas Nilsson
Music of Slagsmålsklubben, Sponsored by destiny.