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The Website Utility Evaluation Version (3Mb ZIP file).Tag clouds are lists of
keywords and phrases associated with a website. Each word is given a different ranking
depending on its importance throughout the site. More highly ranked words are normally
shown in a larger font size and/or a more prominant colour.
The tag cloud list is normally listed in alphabetical order.
The Website Utility optionally creates tag clouds for websites it is used to crawl. The
resulting list can be used on websites, or used to assist with search
engine optimisation of a website.
Example Tag Cloud
This is the edited tag cloud for this website:
applications
articles asp
banner
basic
blog buy class client code comments companion
company connection contact content
copyright create
database
databases developers
document
documentation documented documenting documentor download engine error evaluation example facility features file
filename files
form
format
framework
full function
help history
home html improved index indexing
information
javascript list map method microsoft name
ndoc net
news number offers ordering page
php
policy portal procedures
products project
projects
purchase
registered release
report rotator sales sample script search
sell server
services site software solutions source sql
standard
stored
string strings subroutines
success support
system table tag
technical
text timesaving tools
upgrades utility vbscript
version view visual web
website
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Customising the Tag Cloud
There are a number of ways of customising the tag cloud produced by The Website
Utility:
Altering the Word Count
The number of hyperlinked words appearing in the tag cloud may be customised by
changing the value of the NumberOfWordsInTagCloud setting in the
DefaultConfiguration.ini file.
Changing the Tag Cloud's Appearance
If you want to change the size or color of each tag, you will need to change the
a.TagCloud1 .. a.TagCloud7 styles in the HTML - these use standard Cascading Style Sheet
(CSS) syntax. The basic styling produced by The Website Utility is shown below:
< style>
a.TagCloud1{font-size: 200%}
a.TagCloud2{font-size: 150%}
a.TagCloud3{font-size: 125%}
a.TagCloud4{font-size: 110%}
a.TagCloud5{font-size: 100%}
a.TagCloud6{font-size: 90%}
a.TagCloud7{font-size: 75%}
</style>
The relative font sizes of each style can of course be modified. Hyperlink
colours and styling can also be changed by using CSS syntax such as this:
a.TagCloud1{font-size: 200%; text-decoration: underline; color:
#00FF00;}
It is also possible to change the styling of visited links within the tag cloud:
a:visited.TagCloud1 {font-size: 200%; text-decoration: underline; color:
#33AA33;}
Besides visited and unvisited, other possible states of a hyperlink are active
and hover.
Editing the Word List
The Website Utility attempts to determine the important sites and URLs in your website,
but you may need to do some editing of the tag cloud before using it on your website.
Search Engine Optimisation using Tag Clouds
Don't forget that the tag cloud can also help in optimising a website
for major search engines - the tag cloud can function as a useful overview of a website by
identifying important keywords associated with that website.
When a tag cloud is built it is also a good idea to ensure that key product names are
visible in the tag cloud - if they aren't it may indicate that the website does not give
enough prominance to key product lines.
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