It is true. Now figuring out how to have translations to more languages but I see down that somebody has a page with 11 languages so I hope I'll succeed too... :)
Thanks for this great component!
ps: Listen to Antonin Dvorak's Allegro con fuoco. It is beautifull! :)

i am using joomfish for my projects, for custom component, contentelement is very friendly and simple using it.
thanks.

I installed this, followed the instructions and it broke the front end of the site. Just getting a blank page now. No code generated at all.

After reading the support forums, it seems that this is a common issue and that it depends on the php/mysql combo you have installed, but nobody has bothered to post what versions you should be using to get it to work.

If the documentation and support were better, I might be able to install the correct php/mysql combo to get it working.

This component is truly beautiful, the only things I'd wish is more extensive and detailed documentation as well as some form of compitibility table with other components. I realize that this would be too much for single people to maintain but perhaps as some form of community effort at least for those which are not compatible?

Also, it took me a while to realize that the active forums are in forum.joomla.org and not in the joomfish forge discussions.

Great Tool!!!

Thank you for this excellent tool. Works like a charm and is a must have for anyone wanting to have his/her site available in different languages.

The only way that should be allowed to do a multi-lingual website. OK, that might be overstating but it certainly should be considered.

Right, it's not all fun and games, by no means is it a "complete" mod, in which you "fire and forget". In order to have it work with other mods you must find / download or create your own .xml files, but it's pretty simple following their guides and looking at ones already done.

I really can't see it being easier than it already is. Running a site with 3 different languages couldn't be easier to do, I think.

P.S. I'm not considering the translators. My experience with those things are that they get the general idea across, but when you're trying to look professional, "Spanglish" or "Chinglish" auto-translations don't cut the mustard.

Installed, translated, works...

I also read a review about "just try translate.google and the mambospan module..." To be honest, i tried it and the german-english translation is really awful. It is not the quality to put it on a business page, and i also would not put it on my private page...
With Joomfisch i have a perfect and simple component where i can translate my homepage and can control what's translated!

this message come up:
Deprecated use of Mambelfish. Request URL : /index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=23

Please contact the author of this component/module/mambot with the details in this message.

In the meantime the following function reference can be commented out and translation should not be affected.
File : loader\menu.menuloader.class.php
Line : 96
Function : translate

With all of the hype surrounding JoomFish ("JF"), I was excited to incorporate it into my site. After experiencing its incompatibility issues with other components/modules/mambots and the lack of documentation and absence of reliable support(countless months-old dead-end support questions on the joomfish forge site), it left me wondering why anyone would want to unleash such havoc and chaos upon their web site. Trust me, if you are interested in any combination of aspects such as e-commerce, SEF, 3rd party forums being part of your Joomla site, this is one headache that you really cannot afford. The fact that we now have translate.google that can be implemented with Joomlaspan's Google Translation Module in A COUPLE OF MINUTES makes the idea of JoomFish even more futile...I know, I know, with JoomFish you have "control" of the translation (says JF devs), but in my opinion, it is at the expense of losing control of everything else on your site!...see for yourself in the developer forums, or better (actually WORSE) yet, try it for yourself.

And for those who may have hacked their site to pieces, installed add-ons, even purchased commercial licenses for a particular VERSION of a component in order to make the whole thing function 'normally', then what happens with the next upgrade of any of those items?

Do you really need it?

JoomFish enabled me to design a website incorporating 11 language selection options !

Support via forum was excellent while trying to resolve issues that were encountered (and resolved).

The beautiful thing about JoomFish is that one can manually translate content, whereas, other multilingual components generally provide automatic translations via machine translators, which generally leave much to be desired with regards to accuracy of the translation.

KUDOS ! to all for their work on this EXCELLENT component

Joomfish was easy to install and it works like a charm and even more. I have over 500 articles on my site that I am manually translating to Spanish. Joomfish even allows me to keep track on those articles that are partially translated.

Over all Great component. Thumbs up for those developers that devoted their time and effort to make our lives easier!

Blast! Just wrote a comprehensive review, got logged out while writing it, now it's gone after hitting submit :( I give a 4/5, the usability issues I found seem to have been noticed by other users and, most importantly, the development team. So maybe soon a 5/5.

To the previous poster, this is by no means normal, JoomFish should handle images just fine. Go to the project homepage as linked on this page for information and guidance.

I wanted it to work with Joomfish so much that I installed it a second time on one of my websites after the first try out was no succes. I shouldn't have done that because again it seems Joomfish is not good at handling images; I cannot put images into my content when Joomfish is installed, what is also bad is that it has messed up my joomla website; I cannot access the components page no more and now I can start building my site from scratch again because I can't find another solution. No third attempt to use Joomfish for me for a long, long time.

I think basically it is an excellent extension. But seems cannot create multi-language Weblink items. Frankly it is very good :)

This component is quite good with his great funcionnalities and no bugs until now.

The only problem I got was that sometimes the change of language wouln't work, but this could be a browser problem also.. you know.. Microsoft stuff..