Create a Tagul World Cloud for your Blog

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About This Presentation

A tutorial on how to create a tagul word cloud use the tags from your blog


Slide Content

http://tagul.com/
Go to
and register

You can create
up to 10 word
clouds.
Click on create.

Go to your
blog and copy
your tags or
labels of your
posts.

Type or paste
in your tags.
The more you
repeat a word
the larger it
will appear.

Go to your blog and
select a tag.
Copy the URL before
the tag you selected.

Highlight the
link before the
‘$’ and paste
the new URL

Paste in the URL
for your blog
Check if you tags
are lowercase or
Capitalized. They
will need to be
all the same

Click on Fetch
tags

Select a shape
for your word
cloud

Select fonts,
you can choose
more than one.
Select angles for
the words to
appear or select
random and then
click on >>
Click on
‘build a cloud’

The word cloud
will be
generated

Click on
preview

Your word
cloud will
appear. If you
are not happy
with it you
can go back
and make
alterations.

Click on Style
Options

select
colours for
text,
background
and rollover
colours

Click on
Preview.
If you are not
happy with the
colour
combination,
click on
refresh.

Here is a new
colour
combination

Move your
mouse over a
word and click

It should open
to the
category on
your blog

Click on
finalize, choose
the size of the
word cloud,
save and copy
the embed code

Go to the
dashboard of
your blog and
select layout,
add an HTML
Gadget

Paste the Embed
Code and save

Your tag cloud
should appear
on your blog