Creating a „Glossary”

Need advice on making a simple glossary
I am trying to make a simple “glossary" of web terms. I thought of few approaches, but can’t decide on how to go.
The easiest way would be to go with something like this http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Glossary+of+Revolution+Terms
But it makes the page infinite long and hard to navigate.

My second thought was to go with a standard approach like
http://rtfm.modx.com/pages/listpages-alphaview.action?key=MODx096
but there’s a one drawback to that method- after clicking a link you get redirected to a different page. So from my point of view it’s a bit tedious to use a whole page(unique resource page) just to view a short(sometimes medium long) definition of a term.
Andy ideas on how to tackle this?

[using revo]

It's really wasteful and slow to have a resource for each term.

Ideally, you'd put the whole thing in one file, chunk, or resource, and parse it to display a jumplist at the top (either to each entry, or to alphabet sections -- A, B, C). I don't think there is an existing extra to do that, but the ObjectExplorer code does this: http://bobsguides.com/modx-object-quick-reference.html and there are couple of AtoZ snippets that show an alphabetical site map.

http://modx.com/extras/package/atozlisting

http://modx.com/extras/package/siteatoz

You could probably use code from them to do what you want.

You could also refactor EZfaq (http://modx.com/extras/package/ezfaq) to sort the results alphabetically and insert alphabet anchors. That would give you a nice slider. I've been meaning to do that but never seem to get around to it.


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With Evo I use Jot for a lot of things like this; can Quip be used for something like this?

Logged in, you get the form, and a bit of Javascript enables rich text editing as well as drag-and-drop reordering of the items.

after much deliberation and testing I am leaning towards the jump list, but I have one more question. What about using something like siteatoz with static pages? (speed wise).

Its also possible to manage your glossary by MIGX or if there are a lot entries with a custom-table and MIGXdb either as a MIGXdb-CMP or a MIGXdb-TV

The speed shouldn't be a problem as long as the page and snippet are cached (except for the first load). Resources carry a lot of overhead, thought, so you'll probably be using at least 10 times the DB space you actually need.


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