I love Joomfish! There are so many languages available and this extension is so flexible. I can recommend it to anyone. I am building a site for an international company. I am using joomfish 2.0 for Joomla 1.5 and it I am setting it up in english/dutch/french/romanian and chineze. No problems so far....
But I have the same problem which many other people have too I think, I have great problems with not being able to make the menu language dependent. I think allmost all sites that are set-up in a few languages need it.

So I am a bit stuck regarding that feature. Hope they have a sollution soon. Apart from that one of the best extensions!

It has a powerful translation manager for articles. But I can not test JoomFish 2 beta because there is still no menu manager for different languages.

It is easier for me to start a multilingual site with M17n, you can start the structure because there is a language selector which is efficiently linked to the menu manager. M17n has no translation manager for articles yet, but you can multiple your articles in different languages.

Hopefully, next JoomFish 2 may have a translation manager for menus.

I used JoomFish in an earlier site a couple of years ago and loved it. It worked great, but I was only using it for a site displayed in English and Spanish.

Now I want to create a new 1.5.2 site using JoomFish 2.0 beta (for testing) and I want to use English, Spanish, French and Portuguese initially. However, I can't find language packs for either Portuguese (Portugal, not Brazil) or French. To add to the confusion, many of the language files listed in 'Extensions' don't offer intuitive names or descriptions, and don't always call themselves 'language packs'.

What's more, I've posted messages in the JoomFish forums on the subject, but get no replies - other users posting related questions get no useful replies either. No replies to my emails either.

If this extension is going to get really popular and excellent ratings, we (the users) must have easy access to a definitive list of available language packs.

I'm giving-up on JoomFish for now, and going to try M17n. :(

I haven't had any problems with Joom!Fish so far, it is my true favourite. Just when running Joom!Fish 1.7 on Joomla 1.0.13 it needs the admin session fix (located here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=200725) after fix - working perfectly!

JoomFish is the solution to manage multi language site.
With joomFish, from the frontend of Joomla, you can select a page, than if you change the language and edit the page you can edit the text and translate it simply. Now you have the page with the translation.

Thanks to JoomFish!

JF 1.8RC seems to become a big, complete and serious component because from JF1.7 have important steps forward, but there are some very important things to fix:

> Wrapper links not working getting emtpy wrapper frame

In the developer forum, he don't recognize this as a bug. There are others users that are asking for url translation, but in my case, wrapper component don't work. Need only to translate the links name, not diferent url.

In my opinion, translate url (different url for diferent language) can be included as option or if specified) but wrapper functionality must be fixed as is.

sorry for my english

Very good component. Worked right out of the box. Very easy to use.

Awesome item - installed, translated. Used on a site with 6 languages, easy to manage, very similar to editing content items.

One small thing - 'Link to URL' - I would have liked to have linked to pdf's in different languages by changing the link, not just the title of the link.

Otherwise - does exactly what I need it to.

Joom!Fish is your safest bet when it comes to handling multiple languages on your site. From the ability to change your menus and content on the fly into numerous languages will make your site incredibly professional and user friendly.

Be forwarned, this is NOT an auto translator. Look elsewhere for that. Joom!Fish simply gives you the support needed to have other language equivalents of every aspect of your site. I have used this successfully on a site which is running English and Japanese concurrently, with the Japanese translations done by a professional translator.

Unlike other (poor) reviews I have not had any issues whatsoever with this component, and I'm not a programmer/elite user. It took me about 5 minutes to install and get up and running, and haven't had any issues with it so far. Admittedly the site I am currently using it on is not an intense site - it's simply a brochure site with minimal content and no other components installed.

Treat your users and site visitors with respect. Unless you want to completely insult them, their language and their culture, don't use auto-translators. I'm a trilingual speaker and it's insulting to my intelligence visiting sites that have been auto translated.

Just completed my first English/Japanese site. Setting up JoomFish and copying in the translated text for the entire site to well less than an hour.

All feature are working bug-free so far. Client is thrilled! Thanks to JoomFish I have a new Joomla convert.

Big thanks to the developers for GPL'ing such a powerful, and well-written component. I will be donating to this project.

Regarding foxp2u, and his review. I thought this will be a headache, but in matter of minutes i got the whole system figured out and in next ten minutes first english-croatian content was on my site.

Nice.

It does everything you can ask for and it's easy to use.

On the demo page of Joomla 1.5 they recommend one installs the joomfish in order to multi-lingualy enable his site.

http://demo.joomla.org/demo15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=1

Unfortunatelly it seems that the joomsfish was not yet upraded to joomla 1.5 !?!??!

I agree with the poster above "baobabonzai". New to Joomla users doesn't have any idea how to use them especially that of setting the ISO and whether or not to publish the language.

In my case, I complained a lot about the who's online getting $ strings in the frontend and the confirmation codes messed up. It was totally the none/not updated Chinese language package fault. There is a new UTF8 version of Chinese language package at the very last page.

All in all, thanks Alex for this great component! :)

Easy installing and use, I've not have any problems at all with this package except with RSGallery2 where the name and description of the galleries aren't translated and I can't get the file mldatabase.class.php revision 426 but there's a minor problem, I'm any way very pleased with the package.

Christer