April 21, 200719 yr Does anyone know how to make one of those link cloud. I found one but its not good at all. Here is a sample of what I am looking for http://www.dan-lev.com/links.php Really need one.
April 21, 200719 yr Does anyone know how to make one of those link cloud. I found one but its not good at all. Here is a sample of what I am looking for http://www.dan-lev.com/links.php Really need one. If you wanted it for word press for example and wanted to display your category as a cloud, I'd probably use the post per category count and some conditionals in php to set different class names on the links. something like, if post count < 10 class equal small if post count>10 & post count<20 class equal medium if post count>20 class equals big then in your css, create the classes small, medium and big with the font-size you want and that gives you a starting point! Obviously, if you want more than 3 different size, just use more conditionals.... That is a SIMPLE way to do it and the first thing that came to my mind... You would hit problems once all your categories have more than 20 posts tho.... So if you want to make it a bit more bullet proof, try using actual calculation. You could use the overall post count and calculate the percentage each category represents then multiply that by a constant that would return you a font size in em's..... These 2 example can be apply to anything, not just categories in wordpress. The principle of a cloud is to reflect popularity visually so you (should) always have some sort of count somewhere. That's only 2 ways you could use to achieve the effect, I'm sure there are plenty more... Use your head Hope this makes sense Oli
April 22, 200719 yr Author Well yes it does however when I tried to write the code, I came out with a large error and then had to trash it. I have no clue how to fix it. Do you know where I can get a script such as that, where visitors can add their link just as in the example page?
April 23, 200719 yr No idea where to find this... Making it would be the way to achieve this to me... Oli
April 23, 200719 yr Do any of these help? There basically Word /Cloud tag scripts, some free. http://www.hotscripts.com/search/15069541.html
April 26, 200719 yr http://www.wordlinkspro.com/ Thats what alot of people use for the link clouds. I edited mine to work without users having to pay. http://arthouse81.com/
April 26, 200719 yr http://www.wordlinkspro.com/ Thats what alot of people use for the link clouds. I edited mine to work without users having to pay. http://arthouse81.com/ ewww... That www.arthouse81.com domain is a link farm with a zero PageRank! Having your sites link on that page will do you much more harm than good from a SEO point of view. It's filled with poor quality links to sites selling adult medicines all sitting on a single page, its awful. All you need to do to check the PageRank is scan the multiple datacentres and they all return a zero PageRank. So where the heck you got the "Valid PageRank 4" from is beyond me, but it looks like you simple copyed the image onto your server for the fun of it!
April 26, 200719 yr ewww... That www.arthouse81.com domain is a link farm with a zero PageRank! Having your sites link on that page will do you much more harm than good from a SEO point of view. It's filled with poor quality links to sites selling adult medicines all sitting on a single page, its awful. All you need to do to check the PageRank is scan the multiple datacentres and they all return a zero PageRank. So where the heck you got the "Valid PageRank 4" from is beyond me, but it looks like you simple copyed the image onto your server for the fun of it! I know, that was old, its no longer a PR4. I had bought a domain that was dropped and had a PR4, I would never lie about this, thats why I was giving them away for free, because I knew it would be dropping down to a 0 soon enough. All of those links were put on there by people who wanted their links there, so thats not my problem. People wanted the service and I gave it to them. (For free. People will actually sell these same links (on a dropped PR4) for $1 per or something like that) That button was really generated for the site at one point, but as I said it dropped down to a 0
April 26, 200719 yr I know, that was old, its no longer a PR4. I had bought a domain that was dropped and had a PR4, I would never lie about this, thats why I was giving them away for free, because I knew it would be dropping down to a 0 soon enough. All of those links were put on there by people who wanted their links there, so thats not my problem. People wanted the service and I gave it to them. (For free. People will actually sell these same links (on a dropped PR4) for $1 per or something like that)That button was really generated for the site at one point, but as I said it dropped down to a 0 people who get links from this site will be penalised by google, its sooo spammy, errrr. i suggest you get rid of this page. let me explain it to you in non-spammy language. There is no point what so ever people visiting this website. They will get 5 extra users from it, and a blac mark next to thier site in google. I suggest you take it down.
February 23, 200818 yr Hello, I am the developer of www.MakeCloud.com MakeCloud simplifies the process of creating a tag cloud. Give it an RSS feed, and it immediately creates a cloud that is always up to date, with no additional setup. To add the cloud to a blog or other website, copy and paste the embed code that MakeCloud provides. Here is a screencast showing how to use MakeCloud to add tag cloud to a Blogger template: How to add a tag cloud to a Blogger template
February 23, 200818 yr Hi frostytrees: that tool is pretty useful, but of course there are suggestions for it! Firstly, try rounding the em's, as "0.95884" is not a pretty number for an older browser to interpret - round it to two DP ("0.96") and you will find it muuuch easier. Also, a nice option would be to add an extra variable to the script call named "scale", whereby the resultant font-sizes are scaled by this number.
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