The Joom!Fish component supports you with design and creation of multilingual websites.
This topic itself isn't that easy as the first impression you might have and so the handling of this component isn't that easy.

This tutorial helps you to do your first steps using the extension within your Joomla 1.5 application. Get your mainmenu links translated and with that gives you a basic understanding of the work process used by the Joom!fish.

It is important to understand that the Joom!Fish extension is not an automatic translation tool for your site. Automatic translations are fine to rough understand what a text says but you need expensive tools and still more experience to use them if you like to get a more readable or professional translation. Translation experts say: "You need to localize your content more than to translate it."

Now do not worry and get the Joom!Fish installed on your site and see that isn't hard to localize your site!

The Joomfish installation is based on the standard package installation routines from Joomla. The package comes with a unified installer for all the relevant core extensions such as administrative modules and plugins. However you need to find and install all additional languages you like to use on your Joomla website.

The following video explains a step by step procedure to download all relevant files and install them in an order that is easy to follow. It also shows you how to verify that your installation was successful. Of course this is only one way how to install these packages.

Gamersea made a video tutorial about the translation process in Joom!Fish. A Dutch version is also available.

One question people often ask is about the frontend translation capabilities of Joom!Fish. Yes the Fish provides this feature now let's see a step by step example how.

This example is based on a standard Joomla! 1.5 + Joom!Fish installation with one additional language. It is also important to understand that frontend translation in the core Joom!Fish component is supported for articles only. With the gold member addon Joom!Fish plus you have full frontend translation capabilities and you can restrict translators to translate in one language only.