Joomulus
Version
2.0 (last update on May 12, 2009)
Rating
Compatibility
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Favoured
115
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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145917
Date Added
10 November 2008
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
At the Advanced Parameters you manually enter your desired Tag, Link and Font Size
The module creates a tag cloud in flash - and also a search engine friendly tag cloud that Google and other engines can index - the SEO tag cloud only shows to your users if they do not have flash installed.
New version of Joomulus released 12 May 2009, fixes previous issues with IE6 and provides a simpler, yet very powerful workflow.
Greek characters are now enabled in the tag cloud.
Joomulus is based on Roy Tanck's wp-cumulus http://www.roytanck.com a wonderful Wordpress 3D flash tag cloud plug-in.
Clean nice module with even more potential to use very easy! I'd like to see custom number of possible links (add component part) and possibility to make joomla article links easy and not manually, but I am not giving less than 5 stars just because of that! For just a module it looks great, simple to understand and with just enough parameters not to make it robust. Thanks guys!
Another example of a module with potencial fallen to the ground for the lack of a clean code.
Even If you disable the swf object and use it without flash module won't validate on web standards. There is no support and module is abandoned. Don't waste your time with this module as I did.
Even If you disable the swf object and use it without flash module won't validate on web standards. There is no support and module is abandoned. Don't waste your time with this module as I did.
Owner's reply
Great point you bring up manuxx2 about non standards compliance. Did you use your clever firefox developers tool bar validation to figure that one out?
Here's an idea! Why don't you do as much research into web standards compliance and embedding flash movies as I have? Go read up on alistapart.com they seem to be the authority on the subject. Then you may realise the W3C work on developing standards that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the publishers of Flash, which would be Adobe, don't strictly adhere to. For clear reasons, Flash movies (also called swf's) are not apart of the W3C standards. While it is possible to embed swf's with HTML that validates, the result wont be cross browser compatible. Please advise which is more important?
A very good module, great work.
BUT: why have you changed(?) files on your site? (oldest versions?).
Installing your site's file, only have manual tags, not articles tags.
Found 2 other versions on the web: one working well (ver 1.0.8.1) but not flash cloud (good for SEO but not so nice to see), and another one ok with flash (1.7.0.9fr on sqysoft.com), but without control (except hacking code) on tags size.
I think you should review your site's files, and give access to newest versions, even if you don't support it for any reason that sure I can understand... I've lost hours to have it working and to understand why people has it with automatics tags and not I.
Well, thanks anyway.
Regards.
BUT: why have you changed(?) files on your site? (oldest versions?).
Installing your site's file, only have manual tags, not articles tags.
Found 2 other versions on the web: one working well (ver 1.0.8.1) but not flash cloud (good for SEO but not so nice to see), and another one ok with flash (1.7.0.9fr on sqysoft.com), but without control (except hacking code) on tags size.
I think you should review your site's files, and give access to newest versions, even if you don't support it for any reason that sure I can understand... I've lost hours to have it working and to understand why people has it with automatics tags and not I.
Well, thanks anyway.
Regards.
If you have a small website and you want to have a nice tag cloud that is actually moving, pick this one. Works out of the box and does precisely what's promised. And it is even free!
But, don't use this for big websites. You need to create your own tags and that means it is not flexible.
So for me this is a great module because I was also looking for a tag-cloud who wasn't sending me to the search page but instead directly to a certain predefined page. It takes some more time to get those tags, but I'm happy with that.
I think this tag-cloud has a big potential to become a even better module if it would be more flexible and thus interesting for bigger sites (why I am not using this one on big sites)
But, don't use this for big websites. You need to create your own tags and that means it is not flexible.
So for me this is a great module because I was also looking for a tag-cloud who wasn't sending me to the search page but instead directly to a certain predefined page. It takes some more time to get those tags, but I'm happy with that.
I think this tag-cloud has a big potential to become a even better module if it would be more flexible and thus interesting for bigger sites (why I am not using this one on big sites)
Installed and setup in 10 min's, works a treat with firefox, ie8 and chrome
Really happy with this effort guys. Easy to install, easy to configure and get up and running. I think you've held true to Roy Tanck's original version.
I like being able to manually enter and configure everything: Tags, Control the links and control the size and colour of the fonts and the size of the overall box itself.
I like being able to manually enter and configure everything: Tags, Control the links and control the size and colour of the fonts and the size of the overall box itself.
This module doesn't work on Ie8. It uses mootool swfobject with around 40KB. So heavy. When i try using google swfobject, it doesn't work
This extension works perfectly and is easy to configure. Really adds something to the tag cloud idea and adds beauty to any site.
Amazing module! It's so easy to use that instructions become redundant. On top of that, it's beautiful to watch.
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