How to Create a Delicious.com Tag Cloud for Your Web Site

J. Peter Thayer

Note: This slide presentation assumes you already have a Delicious.com account.

1. Go to http://www.delicious.com and log into your Delicious.com account.

2. Click on ‘Help’.

3. Click on ‘Bookmarking buttons and add-ons for your browser or website’.

4. Click on ‘Tagrolls’.

5. Customize your display options at the bottom of the screen. Then, copy the code at the top of the screen and paste it into your web page.

Display options

Code

6. The screen below shows how I customized the tag cloud on the Legacy Library government resources web site. I strongly recommend that you choose similar settings, especially in terms of the minimum and maximum font sizes.

7. Here’s what the tag cloud looks like on the Legacy Library government resources web site.