Blog: Tag Storm

Getting Tag Storm Compatible, Lined Up, and Working with Drupal

While I was redesigning our website, I decided to redo our blog’s tag cloud. I wrote an override to the default tagadelic theme function that added randomized positioning to each tag using inline CSS. Once overlayed on a nice background image our new tag cloud, aka tag storm, came into being.

The only problem left was getting it to work in Internet Explorer. I had suspected that I may have to downgrade the skin to get it working in IE, but for once the opposite happened – IE made it better.

If you look at the image above or at the tag cloud on our blog you’ll see that the tags are spread evenly throughout the space and most of the tags are only slightly obscured by other tags. But at first tag storm behaved pretty erratically, sometimes stacking all of the tags on top of each other in a usability mess, like this.