Tag cloud

**SamW** · 26 June 2013, 12:07 PM

Hi
I would like to put a tag cloud into my website and was just wondering if anyone could give me any hints on how to do this? I have only been using web designer 9 for a couple of days so am just a beginner.
Thanks for your help

**Cloud** · 26 June 2013, 12:11 PM

How are you generating the tag cloud, is it some sort of external widget or code you need to embed. webdesigner does not have any native way to generate tag clouds, those are native to blogging platforms such as wordpress but not to webesigner.

**SamW** · 26 June 2013, 12:14 PM

Thanks for your response, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious before finding something external to use.

**Cloud** · 26 June 2013, 12:19 PM

You can create a tag cloud with various services and then embed them into the website, have a look at the following page http://www.maketecheasier.com/5-onli...uds/2012/01/10 most like tagcroud give a piece of code to embed into your site (>web properties >placeholder >replace with html code >html body

That's really as much as can be done (as far as I know), don't know about linking the tags, so have a play with some of the offerings out there.

**steve.ledger** · 26 June 2013, 01:19 PM

Linked auto generating tag clouds need a live and dynamic database.
Software like Wordpress and Joomla have tag cloud plugins/mods. But you can't really do this other than a one-time-graphical tag cloud generator from random words crawled from your site which have no relevant links.
And as Web Designer is not even a HTML editor (therefore has no internal HTML to generate tags before publishing) there's no way to do this in Web Designer.

**Cloud** · 26 June 2013, 01:26 PM

Steve is right, the tags cannot be live, but the tag cloud widgets above can be linked by adding urls's to each tag, but then you could do this on webdesigner anyway by simply linking the text to the relevant page, although they may be a widget which can scan your site and autogenerate the tags so that all you do is embed the widget, or is that just wishful thinking on ma part.