Viart Shop

ViArt is designed to be an international e-commerce solution, thus a multi-language interface is one of the most essential things to do.

At present, ViArt supports 22 languages including Arabic, Brazilian, Czech, Dutch, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. We try to expand the list with every new release.

Note: We have a special translation offer for those who do not want to wait when their language will appear in ViArt Shop. From now on we offer two kinds of discounts to select, namely:

• 30% discount for anyone who is willing to translate ViArt Shop (a Front End) into another language for us.
• 50% discount if you translate both Admin and User ends of our shopping cart into another language.

We would send you all of the messages in an excel spreadsheet and after translation we add the language files to future releases of ViArt. The messages are text for labels and prompts which are used throughout the site and admin panel. There are about 3000 phrases in total (about 1000 phrases for a user end and about 2000 for the admin end). The messages do not of course include product descriptions; these must be entered manually in the language of choice.

The discount coupon will be sent to you when we receive your translation.

Anyway, there are a few language-related issues covered below:

• Languages blocks
• Static tables
• Languages tags
• Static messages

Languages blocks

Language block allows your visitors choose their preferable language (provided it's supported on your site). By default, language block is added to the home page layout; though you can add it wherever on the site via the Site Layouts section (Administration > CMS > Site layout). Note that the block can be displayed in two ways: as a list of clickable images (defined in the Static tables/Languages section) or as a listbox.

Static tables

Static tables (namely it's language section) define the full list of languages your site can support along with their settings like language code, image and others. You can disable any of the languages by unticking the 'Show for user' field. Static tables are fully described in the 'Static tables' section of the manual (see section 12.3).

Languages tags

• product info (name, description, options, etc.);
• category info (name, short and full descriptions);
• articles and reviews;
• custom pages;
• custom blocks, etc.

Let's take a closer look on how to apply this. Let's say we have woman wool scarves and want to add the product in English and Dutch. So, we have to go to the product setting's page (Administration > Shopping Cart > Products & Categories) and add the product by clicking the 'Add Product' link (you may find much more detailed instructions on how to add a product in the 'Adding a new product' section (see section 5.4).

In order to display the product name in different languages, we have to use special tags: [en] - [/en] and [nl] - [/nl] (for English and Dutch accordingly).

Note: These tags are the same as language codes and are taken from the Static Tables/Languages section (see section 12.3).

Thus, the 'Product name' field should look like on the pic below:

Now, the product will be shown as Woman wool scarf when English is chosen and as Dames wollen sjaal when it's Dutch.

Static messages

Static messages allow editing the messages your customers see while surfing your site without the necessity to edit any files. All messages are divided into eight sections to make them easier to find. You may find more information on this in the Static Messages section of this manual ((see section 12.6).

Language specific link

You can also use language-specific link to let your visitors access the site with a different (not default) language selected.