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[sebbs Friend sebbsJoin date: February 2006Posts: 529Downloads:0Uploads:62 Thanks: 164 Thanked: 6 times in 2 posts]

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Hello 🙂
site: http://baico.dev.dnsnetworks.ca/index.php

I spent the last 5 hours going through this tutorial http://help.joomla.org/files/EN-GB_multilang_tutorial.pdf and now my web site is all messed up… I’m on the verge of tears…. can someone please help me ..

I didn’t change any structure to the site – just followed all the instructions and added all the french components and added the English and french menu/menu items… (still have no idea what the purpose of the default main menu is for… or way you need to set a maiin menu to language ALL?

I also added 2 Language Switcher Modules: Language Choice and Choix de langues with toolbar-ct-2 positions which arent showing up as I’d like (I thought it would be a flag at the top right corner? – where is settings coming from?

I did enable the plug-in.

Can someone please help me get my site back to the way it looked before:

please???

and help me get my language switcher to work properly?

What did I do wrong and what did I miss?

I added admin username and PW.

Please help me:(

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[alexsmirnov Friend alexsmirnovJoin date: July 2012Posts: 786Downloads:1Uploads:226 Thanks: 226 Thanked: 163 times in 119 posts]

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Hi there,

I am sorry to hear about your troubles with setting up multilingual Joomla website.

Intimidating as it might seem at first, building multilingual Joomla system doesn’t require advanced web-development skills. My friendly recommendation for you would be prior to setting multilingual “JA Bookshop”:

1 install locally or remotely barebone Joomla 2.5 or 3, without demo content
2 play with comprehensive tutorial, written by Peter Martin at http://www.db8.nl/en/joomla-presentations/multilanguage-website
3 once you are comfortable with setting up multilingual Joomla 2.5/3 system, proceed to building up on that and play with setting up multilingual “JA Bookshop Quick Start”

I hope you appreciate that our Support Staff wholeheartedly aim at helping end users of JoomlArt’s free and paid products so please feel free to register at forum.joomla.org should you have any questions on Joomla installation, configuration and administration.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Alex

P S To make sure your site is not hacked, please avoid using dictionary words for your Joomla backend panel password or any password for that matter. Your Joomla will be much harder to break into if for your SA password you will use a combination of at least 11 small and capital letters, numbers, punctuation marks and special characters. Like, for example, r*5#t)9-.Nw

[sebbs Friend sebbsJoin date: February 2006Posts: 529Downloads:0Uploads:62 Thanks: 164 Thanked: 6 times in 2 posts]

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Who can help me with this? I really need the help

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

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Hi sebbs,

I don’t use Bookshop but just looking at the code with Chrome it seems you’ve assigned the language switcher to ct-3 not ct-2. Change that and it already looks better!

When you first start with multi-language sites it takes a while until it clicks and you understand. I had the same problems.

Hints for you
*You only need one Language Switcher Module and set it to ALL languages.
*When you build the menü for french then use french words for Publishing etc on the menü. That way you can see that it is working – I can’t at the moment as they both look the same.
*You need at least a DEFAULT ALL ‘home’ menü item only. Forget the rest. The reason there is a default is that if there is any failure etc it knows where it can go and get a menü.
*MAKE really regular BACKUPS using akeeba. It could save you lots of effort if and when something goes wrong – e.g. you could have done a restore in minutes to get it back as it was!

Hope that helps a little

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