3D Tag Cloud for Blogger Blogs (Cumulus in Blogger)

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This is an amazing tag cloud which is very attractive and will certainly help yor users to tune into your site for a long time.This basically a 3D tag cloud programmed with the help of JavaScipt and was first created by “Roy Tanck” for worpress but it has been converted into ba Blogger widget it is really great !

How to install ?

Go to Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widget.Then find this code in your template

<b:section class=’sidebar’ id=’sidebar’ preferred=’yes’>

Immediately after that line paste this code

<b:widget id=’Label99′ locked=’false’ title=’Labels’ type=’Label’>

<b:includable id=’main’>

<b:if cond=’data:title’>

<h2><data:title/></h2>

</b:if>

<div class=’widget-content’>

<script src=’http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/2610844_5ge9x/swfobject_1.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>

<div id=’flashcontent’>Blogumulus by <a href=’http://www.roytanck.com/’>Roy Tanck</a> and <a href=’http://www.hack-genius.com’>Hack-Genius</a></div>

<script type=’text/javascript’>

var so = new SWFObject("http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", "240", "300", "7", "#ffffff");

// uncomment next line to enable transparency

//so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");

so.addVariable("tcolor", "0×333333");

so.addVariable("mode", "tags");

so.addVariable("distr", "true");

so.addVariable("tspeed", "100");

so.addVariable("tagcloud", "<tags><b:loop values=’data:labels’ var=’label’><a expr:href=’data:label.url’ style=’12′><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>");

so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");

so.write("flashcontent");

</script>

<b:include name=’quickedit’/>

</div>

</b:includable>

</b:widget>

Then Preview your template and Save it !Thats it !

Customize your Tag Cloud

If you would prefer to make your widget wider, shorter, change the color scheme, etc, you will need to do this by editing various parts of the code. I’ll go through these options in the order they appear in the widget code. Editing width and height The variables for width and height are found in this line of the script:

var so = new SWFObject(“http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf”, “tagcloud”, “240“, “300“, “7″, “#ffffff”);

The width (currently 240) is highlighted in red, while the height (300px default) is highlighted in blue. These numerical values specify the width and height in pixels, so you can alter these of you prefer. Editing background color You can change the background color from white to any other color by altering the hex value in the same line

var so = new SWFObject(“http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf”, “tagcloud”, “240“, “300“, “7″, “#ffffff“);

For example, if you prefer a bright red background, you may replace #ffffff with #ff0000. Take a look at this page for a list of commonly used hex color codes. Alter the color of text By default, the text is set to display as dark grey ( hex value #333333). You can alter this variable in the following line:

so.addVariable(“tcolor”, “0x333333“);

Be aware that “tcolor” is a Flash variable and doesn’t include the usual hash symbol of hex color codes. Be sure to only replace the numbers! Adjust the font size The maximum font size of tags is specified in this line:

so.addVariable(“tagcloud”, “<tags><b:loop values=’data:labels’ var=’label’><a expr:href=’data:label.url’ style=’12‘><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>”);

You can alter this to ensure tags are displayed in a bigger or smaller font if you prefer by changing “12″ to a larger or smaller number. While making any of these changes, you should be able to preview your widget and be certain that your new choice of color, dimensions and background are suitable for your needs.