mit den multimedialen Möglichkeiten des Internets

12:28 Aug 5, 2009 

I quite agree, which was why I mentioned above that a literal translation just doesn't work. Your suggestion is just the kind of answer I was looking for, Alex, but sadly came a little too late for me to use.

12:22 Aug 5, 2009 

I share Alex's thought about "available on the Internet" being misleading.

10:37 Aug 5, 2009 

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.

10:20 Aug 5, 2009 

What the author clearly wanted to say is: using internet's capability to present information through various media (e.g. sounds, videos, texts)...i.e. multimedia. I really think you're making it more complicated than it really is....<br>Using "resources available on the internet" is misleading because it hints at resources outside of the portal, whereas what is says is exactly the opposite. <br><br>It simply says: there are many ways to get information about Germany (information flyers, books and so on) but if you want to get information on Germany through multiple media (e.g. sounds, video, text and so on, i.e. multimedia information), our internet portal is what you've been looking for!<br><br>In a few words: "using the full range of multimedia opportunities offered by the Internet" is ok. "using the full range of multimedia resources available on the Internet" is totally misleading.

....the author could have avoided the ambiguous "multimedialen Möglichkeiten" by using "multimedialen Fähigkeiten".

10:10 Aug 5, 2009 

and have just realised that the answer I've posted is practically the same as what you've written here - apologies!

07:53 Aug 5, 2009 

This would fit your text (IMHO).

07:50 Aug 5, 2009 

"using the full range of multimedia resources available on the Internet"? That may, however, be going a bit TOO far...