An Easy Way to Make a Custom Tag Cloud

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    bsangel · Member ·

    I’ve been searching for a way to make a custom tag cloud for a while now and finally made a simple one using basic html. Many of you are far more knowledgeable than myself where this won’t be useful, but I wanted to go ahead and share. I hope somebody out there will find it helpful.

    I hand-selected the tags I wanted displayed and coded a text box to present them the same way the tag cloud widget does (a href, text, /a). I then altered the text size via a font size code, making the tags I wanted to draw more attention to the largest and the more insignificant ones the smallest. To make it a bit more fun, I made some of the tags bold and with others I used italics. The last thing I did was adjust the text sizes to fill out the box nicely as needed. You can see my custom tag cloud here, http://hawtymcbloggy.com/ (sixth widget on the right sidebar).

    Again, I know it’s basic, but I thought the visual improvement was well worth the time it took to handcode it (which really wasn’t long at all!). :)

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