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Tag Graphs - An Alternative To Tag Clouds May 26, 2006

45 Royale, a web design firm, has a feature in their “notebook” that makes me ask why didn’t I think of that? Instead of a tag cloud, they use something called a tag graph. A little bit of thought, and I realized they’re not hard to create in PHP and a bit of CSS. [This post is a general discussion. I’ll come up with exact code for WordPress in another post.]

The tag graph is near the bottom right of their notebook page. If you do a “view source” on the pag, you can see that two …

Creating Slideshows On Your Website May 24, 2006

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There are numerous ways you can share photos with friends, including the free Flickr service and a variety of toys, any number of open source packages that allow you to post photo galleries on your website or weblog, and so on. One option is a neat little service from Slide.com (found via Emily Khoo).

You upload several photos to create a slide show, save it, and voila, you can share the show. Customizations include special effect transitions, including fading, pushing, sliding, spinning, and a couple of others. You can choose the slideshow size (small, medium, large) and the …

5 Types of Tag Clouds May 2, 2006

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Markus wrote a post over at Performancing about tag clouds and started an interesting discussion. Yours truly added a few comments. At first glance, it may seem that a tag cloud is a tag cloud is a tag cloud, but there are several distinct differences, as far as the source information used to build the clouds is concerned. I’m summarizing here my conclusion about tag clouds, based on the discussion that Markus started.

Types of tag clouds:

Category-based, using the category names that you have defined on your blog platforms.

Content-based, using the full text of all your posts to build …