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An alphabetical index is simple and natural content navigation methood for the human beings. It is also siutable for the search engines, helping to reach content, eventually not accessible by a Web site navigation scheme.

Airiny offers to you a free open-source ABC extension that implements alphabetical navigation for your Joomla Web site.

The ABC Joomla extension package consists of

• ABC Component
• ABC Alphabet Module
• ABC Artio JoomSEF Extension

The ABC Joomla Component provides content visualisation, showing alphabetical article listing basing on selected parameters.

The ABC Alphabet Joomla Module provides a box with a clickable alphabet. Clicking on a letter you will get a list of articles with titles starting with a selected letter. See it in action at our acronyms web site.

The ABC Artio JoomSEF extension helps to convert alphabetical listing URLs to SEF URLs.

Download and install

You can download the latest versions of single components of ABC package in the download area of our Web site. Remember the local directory where you save the files, you will need to find the downloaded files further, during the installation.

Open your Joomla administration console and go to the installation manager. Please, first install the ABC Component and then the ABC Alphabet Module.

SEF

If you use a  SEF Joomla extension on your site, the ABC extentions allow you to deliver search engine friendly URLs for ABC component, as well.

Artio JoomSEF Extension

The ABC Extension for Artio JoomSEF is the Artio JoomSEF extension, not a Joomla extension. You need to use the Artio Extension Manager to install it.

Please, go to Compoments > Artio JoomSEF > Extensions Manager in Joomla Administration Console. Then, use Upload Package File to install the ABC Extension for Artio JoomSEF.

sh404SEF Plugin

Coming soon...

Configuration

Once installed you will need first to configure the ABC module go to module manager and click on the ABC module name to edit the parameters.

For the information regarding generic module configuration, please, refer to the Joomla documentation. The specific ABC module parameters are shown below.

CSS Class Suffix

The module CSS class suffix allows you to personalize the module presentation on your site. For general information about using CSS class suffixes in Joomla, please, see  Joomla documentation. Below is the example of the module pesonalization on our acro.it site:

/* ABC Module CSS */
.moduletable_abc table {
 width:100%;
 margin-bottom:8px;
}
.moduletable_abc table tr td{
 padding:3px;
 text-align: center;
}

Letters per line

Allows to configure the number of letters in the module's alphabet table

Content section

When selected, only content items from a selected section will be shown in the alphabetical list.

Content category

When selected, only content items from a selected category will be shown in the alphabetical list.

Templating

Our ABC Joomla extension conforms to Joomla 1.5 template management. So you can personalize also the HTML structure of the ABC visualisation in your Joomla template.

Tips and tricks

You can also use direct links to the componet using the followiong notation:

index.php?option=com_abc&view=abc&letter=$letter
    &catid=$category&sectionid=$section

where $letter is a letter you want. Ex.

index.php?option=com_abc&view=abc&letter=B

So you can point to alphabetical lists from your content, menus or other components.

We are working on a new version with more configuration options and better documentation.

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