Creating a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
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Creating a clickable tag cloud
for your blog, wiki or website
This is a tag cloud
It’s clickable!
Clicking a tagtakes you to aof pages with
that tag
Clicking throughtakes you to the
relevant page
Tagul.com creates the word clouds
Create a newcloud and fill
in basic details
For ‘Tags links pattern’ use:
PBworks:https://YOURWIKI.pbworks.com/w/search?q=
WordPresshttp://YOURBLOG.com/?s=$tag
This can be done on any site with search functionality:1. Search for any term - e.g. ‘TEST’2. Note the URL produced3. Remove the word TEST from the URL4. Paste it into ‘Tags link pattern’
Play with the options, press
‘Build the Cloud’
The tabs tocustomise further
are at the top
The ‘Tags’ tabshows number
of times each tagis used
There’s variousoptions for styling
the cloud
Clicking on the ‘Preview’ tab shows what your cloud will
look like
Not enough difference between tags? Go back and
change the number of times words appear!
Greater weight = bigger in tag cloud
Click ‘Build the Cloud’ again after making changes to the text
Click on ‘Refresh’ in the ‘Preview’ tab - it should reflect your
changes
The ‘Finalize’ tab allows you to get the embed code for your
blog / wiki
Change the ‘Width’ to the size you want (height changes automatically)
Press ‘Copy to clipboard’ to grab the embed code
Paste the the embed code onto
your blog/wiki page
The tag cloud should appear
on your site
Click on a tag to make
sure it’s working
Questions? Ask me:
@dajbelshaw (Twitter) http://bit.ly/dajbelshaw