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. 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!

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! 1.0 installation with the Joom!fish installed with one additional language. It is also important to understand that frontend translation is only supported for content and not for anything else.