On 11/6/06, Tee G. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, What would be the best and creative way to style the tags?You know, like those big small, very big, very small words under the 'tags' title. I vaguely remember reading something that tags are invented by technorati, so I went to pay a visit, and totally clueless when I see these in the markup: <li><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><a href="/tag/Bush">Bush</a></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></ em></em></em></em></em></em></em></li> <li><em><em><em><em><a href="/tag/Comedy">Comedy</a></em></em></em></ em></li> <li><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><a href="/tag/ Democrats">Democrats</a></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></ em></li> <li><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><a href="/tag/ Election">Election</a></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></ em></em></li> <li><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><a href="/tag/ Elections">Elections</a></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></ em></em></em></em></li>
Even if you do manage to put together the most semantic as possible way to represent a tag cloud, you are still much better off using a vertical list, with the top items being the heaviest weighted and descending from there, than having a cloud of tags with no other information than what can be conveyed visually (and what is available, at a limited level, with hundreds of "em"s or specific classes. Unfortunately, I can't actually find an example of displaying tags in a list instead of in a cloud... I guess nobody does that any more. If I had the time I would make an example, but here's the best I can do: tag list: 1. politics (92) 2. entertainment (81) 3. graphics (56) 4. pets (40) 5. design (38) 6. movies (27) Without any styling at all, this conveys a lot more information than a tag cloud, the semantics are more straightforward, and the markup is much lighter. But this is all IMO; I'm open to what others have to say. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
