Part of your e-portfolio requirements call for you to embed a tag cloud of your delicious sites.
However, delicious has been sold to another company that does not want to support the tag clouds! This means you cannot easily go on to delicious and find the information required to embed your tag cloud.
You can read about the problems with tag clouds and why the new company is not supporting them: http://support.delicious.com/delicious/topics/where_did_the_tag_cloud_go?from_gsfn=true
So, the e-portfolio will *NOT* require you to include a delicious feed.
Should you want to try a work around.
Follow these steps:
Log in to your blogger account
Go to your blog's dashboard
Choose to go to Layout
"add a gadget" to your sidebar
Choose the "html/javascript option
Paste the following information into the white box:
[LEFT HTML BRACKET]script type="text/javascript" src="http: //feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/USERNAME?title=TITLETEXT&icon&count=NUMERAL&sort=freq&flow=cloud&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-20"[RIGHT HTML BRACKET][LEFT HTML BRACKET]/script[RIGHT HTML BRACKET]
Make sure you CHANGE the USERNAME to your delicious name.
OR try pasting in this information:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/ALES204?title=My%20Delicious%20Tags&icon&count=100&sort=alpha&flow=cloud&name&showadd&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-35"></script>
BUT change ALES204 to YOUR delicious username.
Click Save This *should* work but because it is not supported by delicious, it is not guaranteed to work.
Try this but don't worry if you are not successful!
I was wondering why it was so hard to find out how to put a Delicious tag cloud on my blog! It also explains why not a lot of blogs have Delicious tag clouds. Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteI just copied and pasted your example into the Javascript option and replaced your name with mine and it worked! Thanks so much, see you in class on Friday.
ReplyDeleteI am glad this got posted, I asked about it in my lab this week. It worked for me :)
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Fallon and Bailey, I'm glad the work-around did work for you!
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