Bilingual Content Publishing
Without the Manual Work

Every time GTS needed to update their website, someone had to email a developer. Change a program description, add an article, update a contact detail — each one a request, a wait, a back-and-forth. For a seminary publishing content in two languages, that bottleneck wasn't sustainable.

Their audience was split. Thai-speaking pastors and churches across Southeast Asia needed a native Thai experience. International partners — including The Master's Academy International — needed to see an institution that read as academically credible in English. A translation overlay on an English site wouldn't work for either.

We built the site bilingual from the foundation. Every page, every string, every date — in both English and Thai. Thai is the default locale. Over 3,600 strings per language cover every piece of copy, navigation, and metadata. Thai headings use Chonburi, a decorative Thai typeface. English and Thai feel like first-class, purpose-built experiences — not translations of each other.

For content, we wired up a Git-based CMS served at /admin with GitHub OAuth. Articles are written in Markdown, statically generated at build time for all locale and slug combinations, and paginated with full bilingual support. The team can publish a new article in either language without opening a code editor.

The Biblical Studies Certificate program page details 12 courses across 3 color-coded tracks — Biblical Interpretation, Expository Preaching, and Applied Theology — with hybrid delivery details, graduation requirements, and Canvas LMS integration. Diploma and Bachelor programs are scaffolded and ready to expand.

GTS's editorial team now publishes independently. No developer in the loop, no wait, no back-and-forth. The site serves Thai visitors as a native Thai product and international partners as a credible academic institution — and the team maintains it themselves.