Well, if you have a blog then you must surely have been labelling your post.Most of you must have even put up the labels in your sidebar widget.
So how does your sidebar labels look like? Does it still look like the primitive one below?
Or perhaps you have upgraded to the more appealing and nice looking label cloud like this one:
However, there is a new sidebar widget for labels which is really cool.If you still don't have it for your blog, then you must go right ahead.To see how this widget looks like, you can visit my
home blog.
This widget uses a combination of JavaScript and Flash animation to parse and display your blog labels. To install this widget, do the following:
Step 1:
Go to Layout>Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard, and search for the following line (or similar):
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
Immediatly after this line, paste the following section of 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://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a
href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy Tanck</a> and <a
href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda
Fazani</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", "0x333333");
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. If installed correctly, you should see the tag cloud appear in your sidebar.
If you want to change the size and colour of the label cloud , just play around with the highlighted numbers in the code and you will do fine.
P.S:Many thanks to Roy Tanck'
who designed this widget as a plugin for wordpress,and Amanda for converting it into a blogger widget.
