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Read previous entries:

1. Building Tag Cloud (1): Tag Cloud is both easy and hard!
2. Building Tag Cloud (2): Limit the tags!

Last article give you recommendation that the number of tags shown in a tag cloud should be limited. However, some people might have difficulty to adjust this number of tags. They probably deal with a fixed space, where the tag cloud has to be adequate in the space. If I may say, other tag cloud providers just forget about this problem and change their site design so that they don’t have to deal with this problem.

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(if you haven’t read the first section, read it now!)

So, you already have a tag cloud. However, if you keep add new tags, you will face a problem sometimes in the future. Yes, your tag cloud is becoming larger and you are trapped into information flood, one thing we want to avoid. Take this as an example:

… and the tag cloud is bigger than what my screen can show. You will hardly found what you want easily. Compare this with what Flickr does by limiting the number of tags in tag cloud.

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Building tag cloud can be a very interesting job. There is so many aspects that have to be considered to build a good tag cloud, since tag cloud isn’t intended to make people become more confused.

At the very first beginning, we can take a very simple tag cloud. The specifications of this very simple tag cloud are straightforward:

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