How To Add A 3D Spherical Animated Tag Cloud For Blogger

Tag Cloud, Categories, Labels or whatever they call call it. These widgets are very important in a blog. This helps a user to navigate further your blog easily. The usual widget shows the list of the labels you have in your post which is kinda normal to a blog. Some bloggers are experimental in nature and want some new stuff running in their blogs and this widget fit them most.

This widget is a 3D Spherical Animated Tag Cloud Widget. As the name implies, this animated so the labels or categories that it shows are moving. Or not really, if a visitor hover his mouse to the widget then the labels will start rotating in a spherical pattern. Nice huh! Below is an image of the widget I have in my blog.

Add 3D Spherical Animated Tag Cloud On Blogger:

1. Go to your Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML.
2. Find the code below:
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>

3.  Copy the code below and paste it direct under the code in step 2:

<b:widget id='Label99' locked='false' title='Tag Cloud' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<script src='http://freeddls-tripleflap.googlecode.com/files/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject(&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/bloggerustemplatus/code/tagcloud.swf&quot;, &quot;tagcloud&quot;, &quot;160&quot;, &quot;200&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;0x800060&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>

4.  Preview your blog.
5.  If you see the widget running perfectly then SAVE it.
Configuration:
Find the numbers below and change it as you needed.
Text color: 800060 (purple in as default in the code above)
Height: 200 px
Width: 160 px
Font size: 12