Manage languages and translations in Site Creator

This guide explains how to change the language of the Site Creator interface and how to manage the translations of your pages.

Prerequisites

• Access Site Creator:
  1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  2. Click directly on the name assigned to the relevant product.
  3. Click on Customize my site:
     
      

Change the interface language

To change the language of Site Creator:

1. Click on the Settings button in the left sidebar.
2. Click on General settings.
3. Change the language of Site Creator:
   

A dropdown menu allows you to change the language of the Site Creator editor interface (this will also translate some elements accessible to the visitor, such as the Search button of the search bar, etc.); the options are German, French, Spanish, Italian and English.

Don't forget to save your changes at the bottom of the page.

Offer your site in multiple languages

Automatic and on-the-fly translations of all your pages

To offer the automatic translation of your site:

1. Click on the Applications button in the left sidebar.
2. Click on the Translations module:
   

You can add or remove the languages in which your site will be offered to the visitor:

With the mouse, move the languages in the desired order, which affects the language selection dropdown menu (read below).

This menu can be activated in the lower part of the translation module configuration page:

So once the languages have been determined and ordered at the top (don't forget to save your changes at the bottom of the page), activate the menu to give the visitor the choice of language via a dropdown menu at the top of the page:

Manually translated page

It is possible to offer a page (unique, per language) manually prepared in advance, to which the visitor will be redirected when they choose a language different from the main language via the language selection dropdown menu (see above).

To do this, you need to edit the desired language by clicking on the pencil icon ✎, then clicking on the second radio button next to the field that allows you to specify the URL of your translated page:

It is therefore possible to write a page in advance for each language. Ideally, you should hide this type of page from your main menu: