diff --git a/composants/index.html b/composants/index.html
index 414a0bb..1fa0b72 100644
--- a/composants/index.html
+++ b/composants/index.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ ${MENU}
 <!-- Footer -->
 
   <footer>
-    <p>Proudly powered by <a href="http://porteail.e-mergence.org/" title="Go to PorteAil project official webpage">PorteAil</a></p>
+    <p>${POWERED_BY} <a href="http://porteail.e-mergence.org/" title="${POWERED_BY_DESC}">PorteAil</a></p>
   </footer>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/configrc.exemple b/configrc.exemple
index 1be6b0c..a0dae4c 100644
--- a/configrc.exemple
+++ b/configrc.exemple
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DESTINATION = porteail
 
 ##--[[ miscellaneous ]]--##
 
+#LANG = en
 #HOMEPAGE = Homepage - $(TITLE)
 ## File extension to be used to read categories
 #CATEGORIES_EXT = txt
diff --git a/create_homepage.lua b/create_homepage.lua
index 77b0406..1591f32 100755
--- a/create_homepage.lua
+++ b/create_homepage.lua
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ local default_dir_destination = 'porteail'
 local default_dir_img_destination = 'image'
 local default_dir_img_source = 'img'
 local default_dir_css_source = 'style'
+local default_dir_lang = 'lang'
 -- Default files values
 local default_img_filename = 'generique.png'
 local default_index_filename = 'index.html'
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ local DIR_SEP = '/'
 local default_css_name = 'Default'
 local default_title = 'My portal'
 local default_homepage_title = ' - Homepage'
+local default_language = 'en'
 
 --[[ Functions ]]--
 
@@ -262,7 +264,7 @@ else
 end
 
 -- Create index file in destination directory
-result = assert(io.open(destination .. '/' .. main_template, 'wb'))
+index_result = assert(io.open(destination .. '/' .. main_template, 'wb'))
 -- create substitution table
 substitutions = {
   TITLE=config['HOMEPAGE'] or (config['TITLE'] and config['TITLE'] .. default_homepage_title) or (default_title .. default_homepage_title),
@@ -274,11 +276,20 @@ substitutions = {
   CSS_NAME=css_name,
   DEFAULT_CSS=css_menu,
 }
+
+-- Get language configuration
+language = config['LANG'] or default_language
+languagerc = getConfig(default_dir_lang .. '/' .. language)
+-- Add language translation to replacements table
+for k, v in pairs(languagerc) do
+  substitutions[k] = v
+end
+
 -- replace variables in result
 homepage = replace(index, substitutions)
-assert(result:write(homepage))
+assert(index_result:write(homepage))
 -- close file
-assert(result:close())
+assert(index_result:close())
 
 -- Copy miscellaneous files to destination
 to_be_copied = {
diff --git a/lang/en b/lang/en
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..741dc49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/en
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+POWERED_BY = Proudly powered by
+POWERED_BY_DESC = Go to PorteAil project official webpage
diff --git a/lang/fr b/lang/fr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f3aed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/fr
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+POWERED_BY = Fièrement propulsé par
+POWERED_BY_DESC = Aller sur la page officielle du projet PorteAil
diff --git a/paconfigrc b/paconfigrc
index 8bbef82..a6c89d1 100644
--- a/paconfigrc
+++ b/paconfigrc
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ DESTINATION = porteail
 
 ##--[[ miscellaneous ]]--##
 
+LANG = en
 HOMEPAGE = Homepage - $(TITLE)
 # File extension to be used to read categories
 CATEGORIES_EXT = txt