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 If you have a website, then you know about Archives. If you are using Joomla!, then you know about the diffucluty of having a user friendly archive system. Thanks to the support of iJoomla, Southern Search & Rescue, Inc. and its divisions websites are now being setup with a user friendly archive system.
iJoomla donated a copy of their iJoomla:Search&Archive Component, which can be setup in many configurations that will meet the needs of almost any website out there. We have started using it on the Kaufman County ARES, Inc. website and will be adding it to others in the very near future. If you see an menu or link item to Arvhices on our sites, it will most likely point to the component.
 If you run a Joomla! website, this product is a most. With the default Joomla! installation, the archives are setup to be used by selecting a year and month, but some websites are not designed like that, unless they are a news/magazine type website. By using iJoomla:Search&Archive, you can actually have all the archived items listed on a page, by year, category or section, by the week and more. The options are almost limitless.
We have setup our up to show the Categories, weeks in the past month and all archives in each year. Now our visitors will not have to try and remember a date of an article, they can just visit the year, if they can remember it or just choose the category which will list all the archived items for it.
Some of the benefits of using iJoomla:Search&Archive are:
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ull Feature list
Full feature list of iJoomla Search & Archive
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Archive Page
iJoomla Search & Archive allows
publishers to display a highly organized archive page, making it simple
for users to find vintage content. Readers can browse your site by
looking at all or some of these zones:
- Sections & Categories
- Years and month
- Last 7 days
- Last 4 weeks
- By Author
- Magazines & issues (with iJoomla magazine)
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Search Page
The iJoomla Search & Archive extension brings
a new level of search to your site. Compare the regular Joomla search
page with the iJoomla search page. Not only do users receive more
options on the search page itself, but they also get more in the search
results.
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Search Results
With iJoomla Search & Archive, you can fully
control your search results, from the elements to include (such as
date, author, category, etc.) to the color of the background.
You can even show a thumbnail of the article, automatically generated
from your content item's images, include the article's word count,
allow linking to more articles from the same section/category/author,
etc. and a whole lot more. It's like Search on steroids.
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Colorful Results
Any keyword entered into the search box will
appear highlighted in the search results. Multiple keywords will appear
in different colors (up to a maximum of ten, after which the colors
will repeat.) Highlight color is customizable on the backend, by
selecting the "Color" tab and choosing the background color and text
color for the first, second, third etc. keywords.
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JoomFish Support
iJoomla Search & Archive is completely
compatible with JoomFish. Install a language in your language manager
and when your visitors select that language from the drop down menu on
the front end, both the archive and the search page will be displayed
in that language.
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Search Module
iJoomla Search & Archive includes a free
search module which is very similar to the core Joomla search module.
Our module however generates results from the iJoomla Search &
Archive component and therefore offers additional features. Simply
replace your current search module with the iJoomla Search &
Archive module and place it in the same position.
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Full Integration With iJoomla Magazine And iJoomla News Portal
iJoomla Search & Archive has been created at
the special request of our iJoomla Magazine and iJoomla News Portal
customers. Naturally, this component works smoothly with both those two
popular extensions.
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