You know the tag cloud?
Web navigation is no longer while not developing as fast as before, from time to time, something new appears. One of the newest and increasingly modern navigation elements are called tag cloud (a cloud of labels). About a year of 2004 it appeared on Technorati and greatest popularity was clearly brought by Flickr wich uses the tag cloud to classify user photos.

As the name suggests, it is the keywords (tags, labels, tags), pour into a heap, about someone who resembled a cloud. Each label is a reference to the list of items (articles, photos, etc.) that bind to it, and each can be displayed differently with great characters. While the font size to the size of the set of items, frequency of clicks on the label or something else.

The tag clouds in the Western Europa are not much popular (perhaps it will improve over time), but an excellent analysis of their weaknesses and strengths made Jeffrey Zeldman Article Remove fore-brain and Serve: Tag Clouds II (Zeldman.com, 4.5.05). Almost all the advantages and disadvantages of tag clouds, however, revolves around their most distinctive characteristics: it's basically a menu generated by users.

Discussions about tag cloud:
SMITH JAMES (Webcam) says:
On the Czech sites I have not seen any tag cloud. If you know of any (or want to try it yourself to use), please let me know. I could use it as an example for my training life.

JOHNSON JOHN (Adult seo texts) says:
Could you, a little detailed explain how it works? How those links are being collected? This is the navigation within a site, or it is to navigate to external sources? I know, I might have to read in those links, which leads to, but I'm lazy by nature and creature:-/

WILLIAMS ROBERT (RED5 Hosting) says:
The navigation within a site. The more people use this tag team bigger fonts to be used to display the tag in "tag clouds". So the more popular the tag it is becoming increasingly evident in the tangle of other tags.
Navigation is fully entrusted to the hands of user-friendly as can be plus but may have a disadvantage as explained by J. Zeldman. "It's completely where this type of navigation used. For example, the personal pages of this kind of navigation is meaningless in practice.
My personal opinion: this is a great complement conventional navigation but in any case should not be used as the only option for the site navigation. If I would personally use tag clouds to create a website so I would probably made it clear that it is popular tags.

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