Have you ever noticed that cool tag thingy that they do on Flickr, Ning, or Technorati? The one where some words are displayed in a larger font than others? Now you can easily add one of these clouds to your Joomla site to show users an easy way to access the content on your site. Users can simply click on a tag in the cloud to perform a normal Joomla search.

If you're already using Feed Gator with Automatic Tagging, or another method of tagging your Joomla content, then the Tag Cloud is an ideal companion, and a way to encourage users to explore your Joomla site further.

The Tag Cloud module exaggerates the display of common words or phrases found in the meta keywords of your content items, giving new visitors to your site a better idea of what your site is made of, and giving search engines something more to chew on.

The module is fully CSS-friendly, so you can easily control the appearance of your cloud by specifying different colors or sizes in your main CSS file. It's also fully compatible with Joomla's built-in search.

Features:

• Users can simply click a term in the cloud to perform a search


• Specify how many search terms are displayed


• Choose how many different font styles or sizes you want to display


• Sort terms alphabetically, or by popularity


• Filter/Block words you don't want to appear in the cloud


• Fully CSS-friendly


• Standards compliant / valid XHTML output


• Choose linear or logarithmic calculation of tag significance


• Detailed descriptions for all parameters


• Optionally display the search input box


• Specify Categories or Sections of content to include in the cloud


• Probably a few more, but just try it out and see what you think