How can i create a multilingual website with a menu for each one?

Question

I have all the pages in spanish and the same pages in english ej. Contacto and Contact ...should be sister or child pages? I need two diferent menus (one for spanish pages master, another menu for the english pages master) but the menu feature mixes everything. Is there a solution to this?
Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Carme,
It might be easier for you to set up your menus manually, so you can control what is the the Español and English menus, rather than fuss with child and sister pages.
Click and drag out that menu widget that you want to work with > click > click on blue arrow > window opens > under "Menu Type" choose "Manual". Then you can manually enter the titles for and English Language menu. Get that working exactly as you want it to ( colours, roll-over etc ) When you're happy with that one, copy and paste a duplicate of that English menu. You can then go in and change all the English to Spanish. When these are done, then go through both menus and link the buttons to the appropriate language pages.
This way, you don't have to worry about page higharchy, sisters, siblings or anything else. You have better control. It might also prove helpful in the fact that there have been issues in the past with pages navigating once uploaded to the web, who's page names consist of special character language markers like: ñöäãũ
You may want to consider when naming your actual pages that the search engines will be using, ( i.e samplepagespanishpage.com* ) to omit these special characters. Sometimes they cause problems and the site won't work properly. However, if you manually do your menu names, these special characters can be used and it shouldn't cause an issue.
* - If you check into the "Page Properties" under "Metadata" - "Page Name" is where you may want to consider omitting the special characters. "Page Title" I believe you can keep the special characters. This is the information that people would see in Google.
I hope this helps.