Joom!Fish




JoomFish 2.0 is the full featured release including several addons such as a simple Router for your SEO URL's and automatic search within the core extensions of Joomla. It comes with an integrated one step installer that allows you to get started very simple.
Free documentation including video tutorials, first step documentations and additional material is available on our website. The site also includes an open forum for community support and additional resources.
The Joom!Fish club (subscription required) offers enhanced support options and a range of add ons targeted at commercial and professional websites. These include plugins to further manage/restrict the display of untranslated content, restrict certain menus and modules to specific languages and an additional frontend translation component that allows you to manage translators and what they are allowed to translate.
In the end I gave up and used the google module.
When I eventually decided not to use this and uninstalled it the site went blank and all I was able to see was the backend admin part. Took a while to figure out how to restore the site and its this that prompted me to write a review.
Looks great but needs an expert to get it to work.
I think if they offered to setup for you then it would be the best way to go about translating your site.
Dear Oscworth,
It would be great if you comment this in our forum as well (www.joomfish.net/forum) and give us some more details about what happened during your uninstallation. This way we can improve both, the start and initial tutorials as well as the uninstallation process.
Thanks in advanced for your feedback and help
Alex
It is a very strong translating extension since you can almost translate everything in your website.
I even managed to translate a automatic date&time script in the footer of my website.
At first, joomfish seems a bit confusing, but with some logical thinking and testing you should manage to get it setup easily.
Howto use joomfish: First of all, design and create a website like you normally do. When finished, install joomfish, and enable it.
Joomfish translations are like a layers that lie upon your original site.
Install the core joomla languages that you want to use as translation. Set the default language (preferably your foreign language) in the extensions - languagecontrol section of your backend.
Then go into joomfish then joomfish languages, and set the primairy - secondary (and so on) languages.
Then go into the translate section. Now pay attention to the following, you have to select a language from languages - select language drop down box. Select your primaire language. Then in the other drop down menu (records/select state dunno i use the dutch language dont know in english) select which part of your website you want to edit like menu/modules/content etc. When using primairy language and setting up primaire translation, just copy all (joomfish has a copy option). Set the location of your language selection buttons. Select primairy language, publish it, and test it in frontend. If all is fine set the secondary language in the drop down menu. Set the items you want to translate in the second drop down box. Open the corresponding items and fill out the form. Publish all translations and your done.
You can translate almost everything in your website, from contents, menu's, module's, fill out forms, custom html etc.
I suggested translating and publishing the primairy language first which should be the same language your website is in. This easily let you see what is happening and how, thus making it eassier setting things up for secondary language (the actual translation).
Since some users complain it is difficult to use or its hard to setup i felt the need to explain a few things.
Take your time and read, also try things out. As i mentioned before, joomfish creates a layer over the normal website, thus you cannot destroy anything in your "normal" website configuration.
It really isn't hard to setup and i really don't understand what problems some people have seting it up. If one needs help setting it up add me on joomla forum under sebastianv.
Excellent extension!!!!
Sidenote: Do not use with sh404sef. sh404sef messes up things, which ends up in a buggy website. sh404sef creators have not come up with a solution although problems allready exist for a long period of time.
1- It is not a user-friendly one. Difficult to understand some parts. UI could be integrated to the core Joomla.
2- There are 2 tables in DB and all records are stored mainly in the table jos_jf_content thus creating a huge number of raws for a single translation, say a menu item. In my case I have skipped some but I have 4 records for a menu item translation. I have not tried a content item buty it may be bigger than this. So this kind of approach will result in a huge db in no of records and size. This table can be splitted to a number of tables as it is in Joomla.
I am not long using the extension so about updates and development I do not have a good insight but my guess is that the product is evolving.
Thanks a lot!
After a couple hours, I finally just gave up.
The only thing that seemed to work well was the uninstall feature and I can give the unistall feature a Rave review as it removed all the components and modules.
There is a problem, the problem however, is a strange one. For a component that supports translation the product documentation requires some improvement in it's own translation. It is confusing and counter-intuitive. The chap below who is experiencing the wrong translation has made a standard error that can be fixed easily enough by configuring the component correctly. It is not his fault that it is confusing, he made the same mistake that I originally did... putting a Spanish translation in the English section.
If the documentation was to undergo a review and be translated correctly then I think the product would be much easier to implement.
Yereverluvinunclebert
Other than that I love it, it has done a preety good jog to the website that im working on.
Thx
Hi,
Did you just installed a new language pack of en-US and set this to default in your site? The default language is clearly not fixed in Joom!Fish.
I have the impression there was some mis-understanding how the process works and this is something I would really love to discuss with you to improve our documentation and tutorials. If you would please contact us via the joomfish.net/forum.
Joom!Fish is serving well for huge websites with a couple of languages, if they would have these kind of problems we would not be where we are. Looking forward talking to you and improving the tutorials.
Alex
www.libs-international.com
Thanks :)
jamie
Hi Jamie,
Many thanks - please also post your in our forum ( http://www.joomfish.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=32 ). We like to build up showcase and I like to include your site.
Best greetings
Alex
Only problem is that the Welsh language translation is only a Beta and there's a few bits missing, so I'm going to have to do my bit for the community and help translate what's remaining.
Diolch!
Super easy to install. Super easy to figure out. In less than 15 minutes I was up and running and translating my site.
I don't think I've ever used a high-feature component that was so easy to use.
Thanks guys!!
I only had one bug. The module "languaje selector" doesn't read the joomfish css. So it is always -raw images-.(for me no problem, it fits with my web style).
Thanks a lot to the developers! And also thanks for the video tutorial in your website, useful!!!
This is a thorough and complete application that is going to bring a huge increase in visitors to my site once I get it up and running properly. I am on my way to the forums to do it right this time.
The best thing you can do to PROPERLY learn this app is to read, be patient, and take your time learning. It is definitely NOT an instant gratification program for those who want to install and go! My USA "gotta have it now" mindset foiled first attempts at installing and running this app. I am confident it will not be that way the next time!











