Tag Clouds and Navigation
XML will be a vehicle for document and proposal delivery soon, if not already in some corners of the world.
One reason may be the cool navigation features you can implement.
On this blog, I use two of my favorites: Categories and a Tag Cloud.
Categories allow me to help readers find just the posts of interest to them. (If there are different categories you would like, please let me know!) They are easy to create, and then each post is prompted to check of the appropriate categories. This navigation takes a bit of thought, but when I’m in the midst of writing the post, it is easy to know which categories to use.
Tag clouds are even easier. They automatically note word usage and then display it graphically. See my tag cloud under “Words in This Blog.” The version I use allows me to unselect some words that might otherwise appear, and has a good dictionary so common words (such as ‘appear’) don’t get counted.
Shadowbox Studios has more information about Tag Clouds and other blogging tools here.
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