Choosing a Multilingual site strategy

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Hi, I am building a new site that needs to be multilingual English & Hebrew. It is going to be premium paid.

I’ve read and watched help videos regarding the process, how to do it and what it takes to build a multilingual site. But I have some technical questions.
I am not sure but I think my options are:

  1. Building a classic WIX site, and using the multilingual option. BUT:
    a. ALL of my clients connect their domain to the WIX site using pointing, NOT by nameservers, and that is because for security and integrity of all their systems. Some of my clients have web apps that are connected to their domain, that’s why they keep the domain control at their side , and that is a must. I understand that MULTILINGUAL IS NOT POSSIBLE without name servers control, Is there a workaround?
    b. Will the multilingual let me re-design the graphics on the page? That is because Hebrew is Right To Left, and aside from the translation - some graphics will need to be shifted left or right.

  2. Second option is to “break” the menu into buttons, and not have it repeated on all pages - that way I can have a different buttons for each language (actually for each page). I did it once, apart having a headache from the work, the mobile menu was problematic - because I can’t design it differently on each page. Am I right?

  3. EDITORX is great, just completed my first site with it, and I know - that though it doesn’t support multilingual - you can have more than one type of header, so I can have one header for each language.
    Is that so?
    I’ve heard someone from WIX in a seminar, that said that multiple menues are coming to the classic WIX editor, just like editorX, and I know there’s a feature request. Is that already available? Is it comming soon?
    Thank you, this will help me decide how to build the site.
    Gidon

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Multilingual doesn’t modify the design, except for exchanging the text. So the graphics and menu item locations won’t switch sides. Soyou’d need to design with that in mind. Also, if the amount of space the text takes isn’t the same, that could modify the look as well, and even shift some items around…

About the menu though, I don’t think the mobile menu is that much of a problem, as it’s horizontal anyway. So why not use the regular menu for Mobile.
And if your site design allows for it, you can have a horizontal or burger menu for desktop as well, so the menu problem goes away…

I’m not sure about the multiple EditorX headers, but I think the real question is whether you can create multiple menus. Are you sure that’s possible? I don’t think it is.
Does this help?

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Hi, tahnks @nathan44530
I decided to go for EditorX once again.
Since my 2 languages are Left to Right and Right to Left, it will cause me a lot of problems.
And Yes EditorX does support multiple menus and multiple headers, So I can create multiple pages and not worry about the menus. One menu will be in English and the second in Hebrew.