thanks alot for posting this, along with some code... much appreciated ;)

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it's an auto-folksonomy tool built using the Term Extraction APIS. It combines Ajax with Folksonomies and Yahoo Web Services to allow you to search on RSS feeds, News, Movies, Images or just obtain the original story, all without a page-refresh.

Would love to get some feedback on it or suggestions for improvement. regards, -fs

I need to implement this on my site www.similarthings.com :) Minus the mullet!

Did you sign up? You should check it out, I have added some nice Ajax and Effects to some of the admin.

I did the font sizing a bit differently, but it's the same basic premise.

The task I'm working on now, however is: How would one add the capability to display at least one tag for every letter of the alphabet?

Assume for a second that you have 5500 tags in your tag table. That's alot of tags to display - so what I would want to do is find enough tags to fill out a max of 100 tags, for instance, with at least one tag from each letter of the alphabet. (otherwise, you might have the first 100 tags be A-G, rather than A-Z...looks strange to users, and skips cool content in the H-Z range)

Anyway, tags are cool, and thanks for the ideas!!

I used your ideas here: http://www.rel8r.com/tags/

i loved the idea of having my own tag cloud. i tried eurekstr and zoomcloud but this seems like a better idea.

I tried cutting an pasting this in my template under the sidebar section and I get no results. I also tried adding <script> and </script> after now the #tag thingies disappear but there is no tag cloud.

I know that I doing something wrong. I hope it is simple and I hope you can help.

Thanks!

I was just talking with a friend about how to create a tag cloud for my blog but I wasn't sure how to go about it.

Although I don't use ColdFusion, your article was (as you said!) easy enough to follow. I'm going to get to work on creating my own tag cloud today! (I use WordPress as my blogging engine so I guess I'll be writing my code in PHP as a plugin.

Thanks for this helpful article!

http://en.dahnielson.com/2006/07/blog-overcast-tagclouds.html

http://www.ArticleOnRamp.com/Tag-Cloud.cfm

Thanks!

Some of my questions:

Are they only or mainly used for blogs?

What kind of tags do I use to link the key words with the tag link generator (tag cloud links I supose).

Does the above script goes in the head or the body of the page.

As you can understand I am completely lost. Thank you all in advance

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http://www.taskfly.com/blog/?p=6

We have added a little bit "colors" to the final styling (selected a main color and blended it).

http://mgk1969.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/making-a-tag-cloud-in-coldfusion/

Many regards, exl

Do you think that I can implement this tag clouds on my html website? http://www.jocuri.pe-net.info or it's working only on php sites,

Thank you

http://blogs.dekoh.com/dev/2007/10/29/choosing-a-good-font-size-variation-algorithm-for-your-tag-cloud/

With this mod, I had a working tag cloud in about 15 minutes. Thanks a lot!

However, Im sure there are advantages to having a mullet...like keeping your neck warm!

1: as someone said elsewhere, all tutorials seems to assume you know how to populate your database, and

2: all the techniques i've seen assume one has a fresh site to which one can start adding tags for articles/pages with each added article/page from scratch.

But what can be done for sites which already have tens of thousands of pages of content in database and where it is impossible to add tags for each of these articles because it would take forever?

Secondly i dont understand how the tags sizes in your tag-cloud relate to anything at all (such as number of pages using the word)? because each tag simply links to one page, and I can't see any relationship between tag size and anything which loads when one clicks a tag (?)

Also this assumes one's site loads pages based on a single word at the end of the address-string, so how would one do this for sites where content page links require full link addresses rather than the tag-word itself?

Simply put, i couldnt find a single decent documented page on this subject for beginners anywhere on the www in 6 hours of searching, which is quite incredible given tag-cloud popularity. All articles assume the user knows a hell of a lot already. But this is a general shortcoming of most computer peoples' tutorials online - they are good at coding but hopeless at understanding the principals of teaching a subject. There is simply no real explanations at all given with this tutorial although i realise this may not have been made for beginners.

One question though, how do you recommend dealing with multiple tags for an entry? I initially set up a test DB Table that had a "tag" field with multiple tags separated by a comma, obviously this code wasn't able to break up the list into various keywords, and simply grouped them all into one big tag. Looking through it I don't really see how it could be modified to deal with a list.

Is having a separate tags table that is then linked back to the master record the answer? That seems like the only plausible way, as having only one tag per record seems very limiting.

http://pastebin.com/f1d04c178

And, for those asking about the db table, it should look something like.. (Here's to hoping it lines up..)

+---------+-------------+ | Field | Type | +---------+-------------+ | id | numeric | | tag | varchar | +---------+-------------+

The today blog structure have more than one tag.

So your new blog table might look like this. "BlogId", "Title", "Description", "Content", "Date", "AuthorId" and "Tag"

You can try cold like 1. Pull all the Tags from the table, 2. Create a new query with "Tag" and "TagCount" and populate it with step 1. 3. You can know continue from step 1 of the this original post.

Looks like a loot of code, you might catch your result for better performance.