Comments on: Tag Cloud Tips http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/06/10/tag-cloud-tips/ Interactive art, experimental software toys, screensavers and games by Jim Bumgardner. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:15:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: stolkin http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/06/10/tag-cloud-tips/#comment-2595 stolkin Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:48:56 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/06/10/tag-cloud-tips/#comment-2595 Thanks for the article and code about building tag clouds with Perl and PHP. I noticed the code says that it treats the tags as case insenstiove, e.g. uses uc(). However in the example of words from Genesis there is both "And" as well as "and". Also, there is an advantage to using different colors. Often a tag can be a phrase rather a single word, and often many tags will be about the same font size -- different colors help to distinguish them. (But then should not be truly random in color; should check that adjacent tags are different colors.) Thanks for the article and code about building tag clouds with Perl and PHP. I noticed the code says that it treats the tags as case insenstiove, e.g. uses uc(). However in the example of words from Genesis there is both “And” as well as “and”.

Also, there is an advantage to using different colors. Often a tag can be a phrase rather a single word, and often many tags will be about the same font size — different colors help to distinguish them. (But then should not be truly random in color; should check that adjacent tags are different colors.)

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