Flash Label Cloud ( WP Cumulus) for Blogger

Did you notice the label cloud on the right? Pretty captivating, isn't it? Originally made available by Roy Tanck as WP Cumulus for Wordpress, it can now be implemented for blogger as well. The flash basedlabel cloud can be animated just by hovering your mouse over the label cloud.




1. In Blogger. goto Template, Edit HTML, click on Proceed tab and tick Expand Widget Templates.

Look for the following codes with Ctrl-F


If nothing found, then key in id=sidebar.

Paste the following codes below the search result.

Blogumulus by Safeer Ahmed

var so = new SWFObject("https://sites.google.com/site/howdoblog/how-to-blog/blogumus.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", "");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
so.write("flashcontent");

Save the template. If no error occurs, you would be able to see the animated cloud in you blog.

look for the following html line:


where

240 is the width of the cloud area.
300 is the height of the cloud area.

#ffffff is the background color (white in this case). If you want to change the color, you must enter its equivalent html color code.   


To change the text color, change the red number (0x333333 is the color code for gray) in tcolor line.


The number in this line lets you set the maximum font size for the label cloud. Bigger number, bigger fonts!

Happy blogging!