diff --git a/Props/Props.csproj b/Props/Props.csproj
index 50f2ae4..fe0d57e 100644
--- a/Props/Props.csproj
+++ b/Props/Props.csproj
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
     <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
-    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
     <PublishTrimmed>false</PublishTrimmed>
     <PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>
     <!-- <IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract>true</IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract> -->
diff --git a/Props/Startup.cs b/Props/Startup.cs
index 36f1ef2..54c5978 100644
--- a/Props/Startup.cs
+++ b/Props/Startup.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
 using Props.Data;
 using Props.Models.User;
 using Props.Services.Modules;
-using System;
 
 namespace Props
 {
@@ -44,7 +43,16 @@ namespace Props
             }
             services.AddDefaultIdentity<ApplicationUser>(options => options.SignIn.RequireConfirmedAccount = true)
                 .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();
-            services.AddRazorPages();
+
+            services.AddLocalization(options =>
+            {
+                options.ResourcesPath = "locales";
+            });
+
+            services.AddRazorPages().AddViewLocalization(options =>
+            {
+                options.ResourcesPath = "locales";
+            }).AddDataAnnotationsLocalization();
 
             services.AddSingleton<IShopManager, ModularShopManager>();
             services.AddScoped<IMetricsManager, LiveMetricsManager>();
@@ -61,8 +69,14 @@ namespace Props
             app.UseMigrationsEndPoint();
 
             app.UseHttpsRedirection();
+
             app.UseStaticFiles();
 
+            app.UseRequestLocalization(options =>
+            {
+                options.SetDefaultCulture("en-US");
+            });
+
             app.UseRouting();
 
             app.UseAuthentication();
diff --git a/Props/locales/Pages/Index.en-US.resx b/Props/locales/Pages/Index.en-US.resx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6188cb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Props/locales/Pages/Index.en-US.resx
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+    <data name="description" xml:space="preserve">
+        <value>Props is a community driven website meant to help with organizing your online component shopping experience. Create project component lists, search across multiple commonly used online retail stores and share your projects with rest of the community!</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="help.title" xml:space="preserve">
+        <value>Getting Started</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="help.searchIntroduction" xml:space="preserve">
+        <value>Props is a site designed to help with the online project component shopping experience. Create project component lists and search across multiple commonly used online retail stores to find the ideal purchase.</value>
+    </data>
+    <!-- single line comment -->
+    <!-- multi
+  line
+  comment -->
+</root>
\ No newline at end of file