Hello Gerard,

In order to assist you further could you explain what version of WebSite X5 you would like to do this in?

Kind regards,

Paul

Hello Paul, i have purcased now X5 pro 11, best regards Gerard

Congratulations on choosing WebSite X5 Professional 11  

If you want the menu buttons to link to individual pages customised for each language then proceed as follows:

1. For each flag/language combination, create a new 'Level' in the sitemap in Step 2.  Don't be tempted to create 'pages' instead...  you must use 'levels'
2. Edit the properties of each level by clicking on the 'Properties' button in the right-hand side of the sitemap screen.  In the new window which opens you can add the country flags as images under Options > Icon for the menu item
3. On the same screen, set the 'Link to be executed on item click' to point to the appropriate 'Website page' within your project

However, if instead you wish the flags to direct the user to a global version of your website with all pages in the language of his/her choice, then you would be better following the instructions here instead:

http://help.websitex5.com/en/v11/pro/index.html?es_lingue.htm

Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

Paul

Hello Paul, ok i understand, but can i also have the second option and put the flags in the menu bar ?

Regards, Gerard

Hello Gerard,

Yes the flags can also be put in the menu bar by going in step 1 - template style - main menu style by adding a custom html code to display the flags and the link to the pages.

The suggestion Paul wrote you is easier since it does not require any use of custom html code and you can achieve the same result.

Many thanks!

Hello Paul, Claudio, thnx for the explanation, question: i want to add the flags in the menu bar as Paul suggested (first option). I made the levels, but: 1. the level button is still in the menu bar, is the normal or can i make it invisible so i only see the flag itself ? I want to make 4 languages (NL, UK, DE, FR) and i want to put them to the right of the menu bar. I hope you can help me?

Best regards, Gerard

Hello Gerard,

The button will remain visible. What you can do is create a flag image as the size of the button so it convers all and remove the name of the level in step 2.

Otherwise you need to set all the menu buttons settings in step 1 - template style - main menu to transparent so these will have not a color.

Many thanks!

Hello Claudio, both options are not so pretty, could you tell me how i can add a html code in the menu bar (step 1) that shows the three flags with a link to a languages ?

Best regards, Gerard

Hello Gerard,

Unfortunately I cannot help you with custom HTML code. You need to add the code to show the 3 images and on each one add a link to the correct page.

I would suggest you to upload the images manually online with an external FTP client and then add the link to these files so it will be easier to find them for the other project since the link to the file remains always the same.

Many thanks!

Hello Claudio, i'm very disapointed now... such a beautiful program and it can't put a flag on the menu bar ? Let me think what i should say about that ..... regards... Gerard

Its realy a pitty that the program can not do such a simple task, can they make a witget so we can put the languages in the menu bar ? regards, Gerard