Frequently Asked Questions

Why are there so few tags in the cloud it made for my feed?

The number of tags in a cloud is the same as the number of news items in the RSS feed that it comes from. If you are only seeing a few tags in your cloud, it is usually because the RSS feed has few links. Another possibility is that MakeCloud was not able to extract any valid looking tags from the feed, which can happen with some languages, such as Chinese.

How can I make the tag cloud bigger, or otherwise change its appearance?

If you want to make the cloud bigger, put <font size='5'> before the cloud code, and </font> after it. You can achieve more complicated changes to the cloud's appearance by putting the code inside of a <span> or <div> tag, and specifying a style CSS attribute. Also, the links in the cloud have the CSS class makecloud_link, so you can use styles in the header or an external CSS file to modify the appearance of the cloud.

I copied a feed URL from the address bar in Safari, and tried to use it to get a tag cloud, but it doesn't work. Why?

Safari lists feed URLs beginning with feed://, rather than http://. If you have an RSS feed URL starting with feed://, change it to http:// before clicking 'Get Tag Cloud Code'.

How can I improve the relevance of the tags in my cloud?

MakeCloud determines which tags to show by analyzing the contents of your RSS feed. Adding more extensive descriptions to each news item will help it find good tags.