build-i18n.py's rebase_paths() only re-pointed a root-absolute page link when it
contained ".html", so extensionless directory links stayed on the EN route even
when the language had its own copy (`/odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/` on all four
DE and ES pages, and `/` on the DE/ES bootcamp pages). Same guard as the .html
branch: localise only when <lang>/<path>/index.html exists.
Re-applied the rebasing to the 8 already-built DE/ES pages (work/i18n/
relocalise-links.py) - a full re-transform is not safe for them because the
switcher-slot/hero rework means repo pages are not raw transform output. 18 refs
in 8 files. The DE/ES homepages were the stale case: their body links were built
before support.html/odoo-hosting-2027.html existed in that language and were
never revisited.
check-links.py now flags an EN-route page link whose language has its own copy:
0 such links on all 10 DE/ES pages after the rebuild. test-build.py 107 passed;
verify-html.py 0 problems.
Copy-only mirrors of odoo-community-upgrade.html built by translator against the
post-R1-R5 English (EN af27098a, commit 2fe0c31), rendered through work/i18n/build-i18n.py:
<html lang>, canonical, 4-way hreflang cluster (en-US/de/es/x-default), og:url,
/static/lang.js and 15 rebased refs. No EN page change.
- sitemap.xml: 33 -> 35 <loc>, both new pages at priority 0.9
- llms.txt ## Languages: DE + ES lists now name /<lang>/odoo-community-upgrade.html
- checks: check-links.py 0 broken, verify-html.py 0 problems (tag balance, JSON-LD,
sitemap XML), JSON-LD FAQPage answers verbatim in the visible FAQ 8/8 per page
Four follow-up defects found beyond the 2026-10-27 SEO audit (no copy changes):
1. legal.html canonical was https://ODOO4projects.com/legal — uppercase host AND a
path that 404s. Now https://odoo4projects.com/legal.html. The file's og:url keeps
its path /legal but its host is lowercased (path fix awaiting a decision).
2. The no-"4" domain typo in reader-visible <pre><code> body text of
blog/posts/{guide-migrate-enterprise,speed-run-deploy,my-first-post}.html:
odooprojects.com -> odoo4projects.com. Domain string only, no other wording.
3. Lowercase host in every machine-read value: the robots.txt Sitemap line, the
homepage + de/ + es/ Organization JSON-LD url / contactPoint.url / offers[].url,
legal.html og:url, and the four absolute self-URL hrefs in blog posts,
odoo/support.html and email/trial-confirmation.html. Display text untouched
(support@ODOO4projects.com stays as written).
4. One BlogPosting per blog post (15), every value taken from the page itself:
headline = its <h1>, datePublished = its visible post-meta date, url = its own
canonical, author/publisher = the Organization the site already publishes,
image = its og:image where one exists (omitted on the 10 posts that have none).
Empire ">950.00", FAQPage on support.html, the blog-chrome change and the bootcamp
date conflict are untouched — decisions pending with the user.
The translated pages now carry the same four footer items as the three English pages:
ODOO Bootcamp -> /odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/, ODOO Hosting in 2027 (DE) / ODOO Hosting en
2027 (ES), Support/Soporte, Rechtliches/Aviso legal. Deleted: Startseite/Inicio,
Datenschutz/Privacidad, AGB/Terminos, Kontakt/Contactenos.
Rebuilt with work/i18n/build-i18n.py from the translator's six files (work/i18n/I18N-BUILD-PLAN.md
section 5), then: place-hero-slot.py for de|es/index.html, place-slot.py for the two 2027 pages,
insert-hero-i18n.py for the two bootcamp pages (the hero CSS is language-neutral chrome held
outside the translated source). Nothing else changed: git diff 31c02b1 over these six files is
the footer list and nothing else - bootcamp hero, three buy forms (product_id 12), 465.00,
selector and hreflang clusters untouched.
Checked: verify-html.py PROBLEMS: 0; node --check static/lang.js OK; verify-footer-useful-links-de-es.py
PROBLEMS: 0; test-build.py 88/88; test-lang.js 31/31; check-links.py BROKEN/MISPLACED: 0;
impeccable detector identical finding set on all six pages (0 changed lines).
The uniform .72 -> .55 scrim composited the whole hero band to luma ~37 and the
right zone to ~35, against a flat midnight of 25.4: a dark photo made darker.
The scrim is now two zones on the same photo:
.78 0%-88% (copy zone: kicker, H1, value line, the four facts, the CTA)
ramp 88%-94%
.25 94%-100% (the lit skyline, no copy over it)
.78 is the smallest flat alpha that holds every text block over its floor
(body 4.5:1, large 3.0:1) at 1920/1440/1024/390 in EN, DE and ES - measured on
the rendered page, not modelled. 88% is where the ramp has to start: the longest
translated fact line (DE, 1024px) reaches 89.3% of the hero.
Measured before -> after (full-range mean luma of the rendered band):
whole band 37.3 / 36.8 / 37.6 / 37.3 -> 33.8 / 33.6 / 34.1 / 34.0
right 88-100% 34.8 / 35.9 / 35.5 / 38.4 -> 38.7 / 40.2 / 39.4 / 43.4
plateau 94-100% -> 41.4 / 44.2 / 42.7 / 46.9
(= 1.63x-1.91x the flat-midnight 25.4, was 1.37x-1.51x)
Worst text block: 4.87:1 (was 3.13:1). No copy, buy form, JSON-LD, selector,
hreflang or price touched: de/ and es/ differ ONLY by this inserted hero block.
Rebuilt de|es/odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/index.html from the translator's
updated files with work/i18n/build-i18n.py (same recipe as 89bb7b7: lang,
canonical, the four hreflang links, og:url, the top-bar selector kept as-is).
- 2 occurrences per file: the facts-list <dd> and the "Your instructor"
<strong> now read "Oliver - The OC Guy - Arnold, Technical Lead bei/de
ODOO4projects" (the user's alter ego, typed hyphen form).
- Both JSON-LD instructor Person nodes gain alternateName "The OC Guy"
(the translator mirrored the EN page e5e4f5b; name stays Oliver Arnold).
- Buy forms untouched: three POST forms, product_id 12, clear=1, price 465.00
in five places per page.
- git diff --stat e5e4f5b = these two files only (+10/-6).
- add de|es/odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/index.html (build-i18n.py from the
translator's files; canonical + hreflang cluster + top-bar selector)
- EN bootcamp page gains the four hreflang alternates (was asymmetric)
- price 790 -> 465.00 across all three pages (JSON-LD offers.price, the three
buy-button labels, the bc-price sentence); the three buy forms stay
byte-identical apart from the label language
- sitemap.xml: +/de/ and /es/odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/; llms.txt: Languages
section names the new pages
Four new pages, built from the verified translator output with work/i18n/build-i18n.py,
plus the same hreflang cluster and top-bar language selector on the two English pages.
Same recipe as the homepage pilot (main 937dbd4 / 06beab4); nothing else touched.
- de|es/odoo-hosting-2027.html, de|es/support.html: per-language canonical, the full
hreflang cluster (en-US, de, es, x-default -> EN), /static/lang.js, and the switcher
slot placed in the page's own top bar (.cmp-topbar on the 2027 page, .blog-header on
support.html) with the per-shape CSS hook from I18N-BUILD-PLAN.md §3.
- odoo-hosting-2027.html, support.html: same cluster, same selector, so the cluster is
symmetric (asymmetric hreflang is discarded by Google). support.html's canonical and
og:url were still on the capitalised ODOO4projects.com host; the build normalises them
to the lowercase form the rest of the site and sitemap.xml use.
- Internal links: the build's rebase step now also localises a root-absolute page link
(/support.html#contact in the translator's 2027 pages) once that page exists in the
language. /de/support.html, /de/odoo-hosting-2027.html, /de/, /de/#pricing and
/de/#trialCard are local; /legal.html stays on the EN route because the legal pages
are not translated (lawyer review pending).
- sitemap.xml: +4 URLs, lastmod 2026-10-24, priority reused from the EN entry (2027 -> 0.9,
support.html -> 0.6 fallback, it has no EN entry). 17 -> 21 <loc>, no duplicates.
- llms.txt: the ## Languages section now names the mirrored pages.
Checks: verify-html.py PROBLEMS: 0; node --check static/lang.js OK; test-lang.js 31/31;
test-build.py 64/64 (was 43; +21 for the four built pages and the root-absolute rule);
check-links.py on the four new pages BROKEN/MISPLACED: 0.
The EN | DE | ES switcher existed but rendered into the footer slot, so a
visitor had to scroll to the bottom of the page to find it (measured live:
y=5582 on /, y=5498 on /odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/). The user asked for a
selector a visitor can actually see.
- index.html, de/index.html, es/index.html: the slot is now the first child of
.hero .container, right-aligned in flow above the kicker. In flow, not a
fixed pill, so it cannot collide with the absolute .hero-notice.
- odoo-erp-automation-bootcamp/index.html: the slot is now the last child of
.bc-topbar .container, right of the nav links, behind a hairline brass
divider; .bc-topbar-links gets margin-left:auto so the brand stays left.
- One [data-lang-switcher] per page; the footer slot is removed everywhere.
- Styling follows the CI: Inter 12px / .06em / uppercase codes (the existing
.lang-switch rules), active language in --brass on these midnight surfaces,
the other two in the surrounding text colour. CSS-only, in each page's
inline <style>; lang.js is untouched, so its redirect behaviour is unchanged.
- The rules are recorded in work/i18n/I18N-BUILD-PLAN.md §3 for the phase-2
pages (de|es/odoo-hosting-2027.html, de|es/support.html).
Homepage pilot of the website i18n project. Adds the translated homepage for DE and
ES, the shared selector at /static/lang.js, and the hreflang cluster on all three
language versions (EN included, or the cluster is asymmetric and ignored).
- de/index.html, es/index.html: translator output plus the i18n build (html lang,
self-referencing canonical, hreflang cluster, lang.js tag, switcher slot in the footer).
- index.html: same cluster + lang.js tag + switcher slot; canonical and og:url
normalised to the lowercase host.
- static/lang.js: the tested selector (client-side language choice, auto-detect on the
EN homepage only, once per session; a stored choice or ?lang= always wins).
- sitemap.xml: /de/ and /es/ (priority 1.0, lastmod 2026-10-24).
- llms.txt: new '## Languages' section.
Two gaps in the build recipe were closed while building: a mirrored page cannot use
root-relative source paths (style.css, images/* would resolve to /de/style.css -> 404),
so the build now re-points assets at the site root and keeps page links on the EN route
until the language page exists; and og:url is now this page's own URL instead of the
EN one inherited from the source. Not built yet: support.html, odoo-hosting-2027.html,
the blog, the bootcamp page, the legal pages.
oliver