How to make an existing website store multi-lingual in Magento

Please look at the right hand side for the

steps in image.

1. For this we have to download the language pack and then unpack it to application folder.

Download the language pack from the below link:

www.magentocommerce.com/langs/list/

2.Go to System > Configuration. On the left top corner in Current Configuration Scope drop downbox, you can see Default Config , and the list of present store views.

3.Now add the new store view like turkish. Under the drop down box, there’s Manage Stores link or we can directly go to System > Manage Stores. Click the Create Store View link on top right,and type these in store view information form:

Store: Main Website Store

Name: Turkish

Code: turkish

Status: Enabled

Sort order: 0

4.Save, go back to System > Configuration. In Current Configuration Scope drop down box, we

now see there’s Spanish store view. Click that link. On Locale options tab on the left, un check

the “use website” check box then change the locale to Turkish(Turkey). Save.

Now we can have your website in Turkish.

Step 2:- Catalog translation in multi-language.

To create a multilingual store then,we don’t need to have separate catalogs for the English, Turkish and German stores. We have to set the same catalog for different store views. So we have to edit categories or products in the Admin Panel, we’ll see a drop down in the upper left where we select which store we’re editing (default, english or turkish). Same steps to be taken ,when we import products.

In case of products,we’ll need to create a separate product for each language. However, to make it easier we can use the Duplicate feature/button available after we save the original product and and get to the Edit Product page. We can then put the right product with the right language in the right category for the right store view.

Steps to translate Categories:-

To translate categories. Go to ADMIN--> Catalog--> Manage Categories. The catalog structure and text above is “default”. To provide the English or Turkish translation, select your Turkish store view from the “Choose Store View:” drop down in the upper-left of the page.

1. Now click on a category name. Verify that the scope is still set to your Turkish store view.

2. Enter translated content for the name, description, and whatever else we want to be language specific.

3. Save it and repeat the process for each category. Now, when we switch between store views/languages on the front end we'll be able to see the translations for the category names change.

Steps to translate products:-

1. To create or translate product. Go to ADMIN--> Catalog--> Manage Products. It’s the same process as for the categories. Click the “Add a Product” button if we don’t already have one made.

2. The “Choose Store View” drop down is again on the top left of the page. So make a product, fill in the default values, be sure to assign it to the website and categories, and save it.

3. Now for the same product, choose the Turkish store view from the “Choose Store View” drop down. Enter translated content here. Save it. Now when we go to our store front end and switch between languages, we’ll be able to see the translated content change for that product.

Step 3:- To Translate graphical elements in the front end to multiple languages.

We need to create an “additional” skin inside/skin/frontend/default/ folder, give it some meaningful name and assign it to appropriate language (Store View).

1. create a seperate theme/skin for different another language and write language specifuc css for that skin and put that skin into an additional skin folder..

2. In order to assign the skin to a language we go to admin under the System > Configuration section. There we choose appropriate language (Store View), English or Turkish and assign it appropriate skin, for English and for Turkish.