What problems will you encounter if you decide to create a French version of this page? Demonstrate the problem, and suggest a solution.

Suppose you had the following navigation bar on your US site:

The following is written in the fixed typeface Courier to demonstrate the point:
News Sign In Buy MyFiles
Actualités Identifiez-vous Achetez MesFichiers 

The French equivalents contain more characters than the English words, which will cause problems when attempting to fit the translation into the space allotted for the English words. Horizontal navigation bars and buttons are particularly vulnerable.  One possible solution would be to use a vertical navigation bar instead.   

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