Have you ever wonder how people make their tags/labels on their blog flying all over within a rectangle box when you move your mouse pointer over it?
Yes, it is called Tag Cloud or Label Cloud. It is basically a rectangle box with all the tags/labels crumpled together which looks something like the following picture.
What is the Pros and Cons of Tag/Label Cloud as compared to the default Label list provided by blogger?
I have been using the default Label List all the while and I kind of get bored of it. So I tried the widget myself and found some pros and cons of it.
Pros
- It makes the list of tags/labels looks stylish because of the animation.
- If you have a very long list of tags/labels, tag cloud will make it better so that the list won’t be so long.
- Customization: We can easily customize the background colour (can even make it transparent), font colour, font size and widget size.
Cons
- Does not support Chinese characters. Which means that tags/labels with Chinese characters will not be displayed properly (or might not even appear in the tag cloud).
- It can really be messy if you have a lot of tags/labels and a very small widget size for the tag/label cloud.
It is an animated flash. you can refer to the following link to see how its animation looks like.
http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf
The following links are the tutorials on how to put it on your blog if your blog is hosted on blogger.
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