Web template resource files: best practice

Question

What is the proper recommended way to add resource files in Web Templates?

Answer 1

Create new "Import SharePoint Solution Package" from Installed templates project and select your web template that you import from sharepoint than add resource file to your solution:

• add Resource File project items to your project. If you do not have to localize code in addition to the markup, you can instead add Global Resources Files.
• Provide a name for the default language resource file.
• Give the localized resource files the same name appended with the language-specific culture ID. For example, MyAppResources.de-DE.resx for German and MyAppResources.ja-JP.resx for Japanese.
• Set the Deployment Type property of each resource file to AppGlobalResource. This causes the resource files to deploy to the App_GlobalResources folder, where they are available to all ASPX pages and controls in the solution. The App_GlobalResources folder is located in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\\App_GlobalResources. Then replace all string in all artifacts(list, modules, pages..) to use your new resource file. For more details check this link.