How To Add Flash Animated Label Tags Cloud Widget

If it is said that “Pictures speak a thousand words“, then it would not be wrong to say that “Flash speak a million words“.

And because we all want our blogs look great for our visitors, we need to give our labels widget good style.

And here we are:

• Go to Layout -> Edit HTML
• Click on Expand Widget Templates
• Find the next code (use Ctrl+f)

<b:section class=’sidebar’ id=’sidebar’ preferred=’yes’>

• Past the next code just after the above one

<b:widget id='Label99' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<script src='http://sites.google.com/site/bloggerustemplatus/code/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogger eHow by <a href='http://www.bloggerehow.blogspot.com/'>Roy Paran</a> and <a href='http://www.abdul-hakeem.com'>Field of Dreams</a></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject(&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/bloggerustemplatus/code/tagcloud.swf&quot;, &quot;tagcloud&quot;, &quot;240&quot;, &quot;300&quot;, &quot;7&quot;, &quot;#ffffff&quot;);
// uncomment next line to enable transparency
//so.addParam(&quot;wmode&quot;, &quot;transparent&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tcolor&quot;, &quot;0x333333&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;mode&quot;, &quot;tags&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;distr&quot;, &quot;true&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tspeed&quot;, &quot;100&quot;);
so.addVariable(&quot;tagcloud&quot;, &quot;<tags><b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'><a expr:href='data:label.url' style='12'><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>&quot;);
so.addParam(&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot;, &quot;always&quot;);
so.write(&quot;flashcontent&quot;);
</script>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

• Customize you widget by changing the red words as: (Labels):title (250):width, (200):height, (#ffffff):background color and (000000):links color.
• Click Save Template
• Go to Layout and change its location as you like

Enjoy!

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