Originally Posted by Cormac

I much prefer subdomains as they look cleaner and are more visible than subdirectories . It's a tad bit easier for a French user to bring up fr.site.com rather than site.com/fr because the browser history drop down will be populated with more relevant results (as in they start typing fr into their browser, it brings up fr.site.com/etc... straight away which is probably what they want rather than site.com/fr/whatever.. which brings up all the site.com pages before they enter fr). Do you get that?