February 29, 2012 By The Blog Designer Network

Today Facebook announced that business pages will be getting the “Timeline” layout by March 30th, and we have  some excellent tips to help you design and utilize this new layout to your advantage. You may already be familiar with the Timeline layout on your personal page, but now your business page will have cover photo […]

January 20, 2012 By The Blog Designer Network

SMITTEN BLOG DESIGNS, LLC is looking for 1-2 part-time WordPress.org designers who can work remotely from home on a project-by-project basis. We have a great team of blog designers and are excited to expand into the world of WordPress! This position is for independent contractor work. JOB REQUIREMENTS Technological Skills: Extensive knowledge of and experience […]

August 30, 2009 By Amanda Padgett

For many months I have been tempted to add a label cloud to my sidebar, but quite honestly, I was daunted by the number of steps I would have to take to make it happen. I hated to see long label lists on blog sidebars, so instead I seriously refined my labels so there were just a select few and I showed them as a list of “categories.”

Well, Blogger has been doing some major improvements to their programing and they have made it super easy to have a label cloud (a grouping of labels in a cloud-like formation). So, I will now tackle my first real tutorial (now that it is a super easy thing to teach!).

First things first. Some of you may be beginner bloggers and thinking “what the heck are labels?” Labels are tags you give to your blog posts so that others can quickly read posts only on that subject. For instance, I am going to give this post the label “tutorials” by typing it in the box circled in the picture below. Readers who come to my blog can then click on “tutorials” in my label cloud and all posts containing that label will be shown.

Okay, onto how to make your labels a cloud instead of one long list (which I am not in favor of).

• Sign into your Blogger account and go to the Layout section of your blog.
• At the top of your sidebar there is a box that says “Add Gadget.” Click on that.
• Choose “Labels” as the type of gadget you’d like to add.
• A screen that says “Configure Labels” will pop up.
• To change your labels from a list to a cloud, all you have to do is click on the “cloud” option (see picture below).

Wasn’t that easy? So, if you have a big long list of labels on your blog’s sidebar, I strongly encourage you to switch to a label cloud. They take up less space and help your blog have a cleaner, neater look.

If this tutorial has helped you, and/or you switch your label list to a cloud, let me know so I can go ew and aw over it!

p.s. Since Blogger upgraded it’s post editor, the images have gotten smaller (even though it says “large) and of poor quality. I’ll load these to Photobucket soon so they’ll be larger.