Multilingual website

Dear community,

first of all: The new features are great and, as usual, Sitely is a pleasure to work with!

then a suggestion if I haven’t missed it: I recently updated my website and as I approach an international audience, I would love to run it in German and English. I thought about it a lot and then figured that it is possible with the popup function, in which I create an invisible layer and cover all German text with English translations on white background. This works well but only on individual pages, not on the whole site. Is there a possibility to introduce multiple page layer popups (not only on individual pages)?

Hi @Alexander :wave:t2:

You can display a popup across all pages of your site by selecting the popup, then going to Arrange > (Visibility) All Pages.

However, I don’t think using popups is the best approach for translating your site. If visitors need to click a button to translate each page, it will make navigation unnecessarily complex. Additionally, this is not a good practice for SEO and could negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results.

As recently discussed (see this post: https://community.sitely.app/t/feedback-wanted-created-two-german-websites-with-sitely-tips-for-multilingual-version/), I recommend one of these two simpler approaches:

  1. Duplicate each page within your project, translate the content, and adjust the links to redirect users to pages in the same language. You can group all pages of a specific language into a separate folder, such as “de” for the German version. This will result in URLs like your-site.com/de/page.html.

  2. Duplicate the entire project, translate it, and host the new version in a separate directory (e.g., a “de” folder for the German version). This approach will generate the same URL structure as the previous method but might be easier to manage.

Hi @Allan
many thanks for this! This helps a lot!
Best regards, Alexander

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Thats the best idea, in fact I did some websites exactly the same way. The only important suggestion, I would finish one language in detail and the start with all translations. See some sites I did and in the browser line you see, where they are archived.

www.zaostrog-anita.com
https://buerge-buergt.ch/
Enjoy!

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Not bad @geneprofi and well implemented! :slight_smile: :clap:
On your second link example, I can’t get the english version to show?

Hello and well done, it’s nicely done!

As @FlaminFig pointed out, the main site at www.zaostrog-anita.com does not allow selecting English, whereas it is possible to choose it on the site in other languages.

By the way, regarding this site, I wanted to point out two small mistakes in the main menu in French:

Acceuil → Accueil :white_check_mark:
Appartments > Appartements :white_check_mark:

uuupps thanks a lot, I will change it!

Thanks a lot Allan for the two mistakes. Regarding the english site (its the basic-site - zaostrog-anita.com … all other have then then the language code i.e. …/en. …/de. etc.
Hope it works on your side.
Thanks anyhow

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Oops, sorry, I was already on the English version of the site, which is why the button was not clickable.