phydeaux3 Label Cloud Hack

phydeaux3 has described a hack for converting the New Blogger standard Label List to a label cloud at Code for New Blogger Tag Cloud/Label Cloud. I have decided to test it and see if it works. I tried the hack for this blog Gizmos and Gadgets, and the test was successful. The only problem was that blog used Ramani's of Hackosphere New Blogger fixed width Neo template, and the color for the minimum number of labels was black, and it was hardly visible. I had to experiment with changing the colors until the label colors was nice and visible. I had to change what phydeaux3 set for the colors to

<script type='text/javascript'>
// Label Cloud User Variables
var cloudMin = 1;
var maxFontSize = 20;
var maxColor = [255,255,255];
var minFontSize = 10;
var minColor = [191,240,255];
var lcShowCount = false;
</script>

to make the labels easily visible. You can see the Label Cloud at the bottom of the left sidebar of the blog Gizmos and Gadgets.

For the alteration, I used ColorPic to help me determine the RGB values to input into the maxColor and minColor.

Label cloud for Blogger Beta

phydeaux3 has done a hack for label clouds for Blogger Beta. If you want to do it for your Beta blog, surf over to Code for Beta Blogger Label Cloud (close new window to get back to this page).

Update 28 February 2008: A reader commented that the link to phydeaux3 wasn't working. I tested that and it was OK. I also tested phydeaux3 hack for the label cloud and you can see the lable cloud in the right sidebar of this blog Computer and Internet Articles. If you have any further problems, leave a comment.

Also, Phydeaux3 has an update to fix the maximum of entries. If you are interested, have a look a Blogger Beta Label Cloud Update