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Hi Ana-Marie,

thank you for your suggestions.

Video tutorial will be available soon (probably in december09-january10, I don't have much time till then).

Regarding Paypal, unfortunatelly paypal does not work with Russia, so I cannot receive money through it.

Probably some time later I will create a paid subscription with 2checkout.com for those who uses tagul clouds in a business to make profit.

Regards,
Alex

Great idea, I'll consider implementing this.

You can achieve that by using API mode. Paste a text like this and select the API mode checkbox:

<tags>
<tag url="http://tagul.com" weight="130">Seperate words 1</tag>
<tag url="http://google.com/search?q=words" weight="18">Seperate words 2</tag>
<tag url="http://google.com/search?q=etc" weight="12">etc</tag>
</tags>

WP-SWObject plugin won't work for livejournal, you should use the embedding code on the "Finalize" tab. You can try to use the fixed measurement (not percentage).

Here is an example of successfull embedding in livejournal http://pdlloyd.livejournal.com/76909.html

Guillaume,

glad to hear it. Well done!

Tagul uses progressive scaling factor, i.e. small tags will have bigger scaling factor than the big ones. I've seen your cloud and must say that all tags are readable when highlighted.

BTW, you can use "open cloud in new window" item in the right click menu to zoom your cloud into new resizable window.

I know it is not much intuitive way to do this, so later I will make a fancy floating menu with this feature.

By design Tagul considers all the text. In order to get a tag cloud based only on the categories you should provide API xml that looks like this:

<tags>
    <tag angle="0"
         color="3488BF"
         font="Linux Libertine Regular"
         url="http://tagul.com"
         weight="130">Tagul</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=money" weight="18">money</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=tag" weight="12">tag</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=cloud" weight="7">cloud</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=html" weight="23">html</tag>
    <tag url="http://google.com/search?q=web" weight="21">web</tag>
</tags>

Later I will make the seamless integration with most popular blogging platforms like blogger, wordpress, etc. and then you won't need providing API xml.

P.S. It should be working fine with french language. Please let me know if something goes wrong.

1) Do you use the percentage metrics? If you do try to use the fixed one and watch your width and height attributes carefully.
2) For wordpress you could use WP-SWFObject plugin (http://blog.unijimpe.net/wp-swfobject/) and use the following code to embed:
[SWF]http://cdn.tagul.com/cloud.swf, 600, 500, id=<you cloud id>[/SWF]

Change <you cloud id> to the real id of your cloud that can be found in the embedding code, e.g. <param name="flashvars" value="id=1@14"> your id 1@14.

IFDAonline,

It should be working fine, could you please check once again:

1) Have you fetched your tags again after changing the links pattern?
2) What url you see on the tags tab?

Alex

You should be able to use URL or text. The bug is fixed :)