TopCloud
Version
17v16 (last update on Mar 22, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
7
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
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26919
Date Added
3 May 2010
The TopCloud module is customizable in both appearance and content. A range of graphic background and surrounds is integral to the module. These can be extended through an media add-on or your own custom designs.
The colours of the links which make up the content of the cloud are also customizable.
Landing page is selectable.
Clouds may be numerically reduced for large clouds.
Support for characters outside the site localisation - useful for multilingual content.
A choice of fonts and text sizes/weights are available.
Localization is available for English, Russian, French and German languages.
This module is not flash based.
No need to register.
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TopCloud is an extension which is extremely easy to install and configure. The configuration options are very good "out of the box" as it is and suits for most users as such.
I wanted to be able to use phrases as "single keywords" in the cloud in such a manner that phrase would appear as a single link in cloud instead of being multiple separate words. I also wanted this extension to hide keywords which are not used on public articles as long as user has not logged in (or doesn't have privileges to see those articles).
I contacted the owner of the extension and I got feedback very fast. After changing few emails the owner had included extended functionality to fulfill my needs for the extension in new version of the extension (branch? no knowledge will the functionality be in public version of the extension). After the modifications were added the extensions was exactly what I wanted from it.
The customer support was very swift and professional, and went beyond my expectations. I recommend this extension to anyone.
I wanted to be able to use phrases as "single keywords" in the cloud in such a manner that phrase would appear as a single link in cloud instead of being multiple separate words. I also wanted this extension to hide keywords which are not used on public articles as long as user has not logged in (or doesn't have privileges to see those articles).
I contacted the owner of the extension and I got feedback very fast. After changing few emails the owner had included extended functionality to fulfill my needs for the extension in new version of the extension (branch? no knowledge will the functionality be in public version of the extension). After the modifications were added the extensions was exactly what I wanted from it.
The customer support was very swift and professional, and went beyond my expectations. I recommend this extension to anyone.
Very configurable indeed, unfortunately a few tag modules I tested just showed nothing, this was one of them. Others worked fine on my site so my choice was made by which module worked out-of-the-box. I chose the simple tags or the old zaragoza cloud module in the end and not this one.
Owner's reply
As you say this is a configurable product.
It puzzles me that you would value items which gave you no choices. Why would you want something that only represents someone elses priorities.
Having said that the configuration options are fairly straight forward. As you youself say very configurable.
I had a slight problem with the module in that i couldn't figure out how to make the search results page (after clicking a tab) display on a specific page. Within 24 hours of emailing the developer they sent me back a modified version with a drop-down box to choose the "result page" location.
Excellent service, and now the module works perfectly in my website.
Excellent service, and now the module works perfectly in my website.
I had doubts to use TopCloud module at first as there is no real demo/screenshots anywhere, or I haven't found it.
However, I've decided to test it out and wouldn't change it for any other module.
I use the extension for blog website which has hundreds of articles. The installation of module went smooth, no problems, easy to install and easy to use.
+ simple to install
+ easy to use
- I haven't found any flaws connected to functionality so far. Few HTML tidy warnings, but that is last thing some developers look at, all is fixable as long as you have some HTML and php knowledge ;P
Thanks to developer :)
However, I've decided to test it out and wouldn't change it for any other module.
I use the extension for blog website which has hundreds of articles. The installation of module went smooth, no problems, easy to install and easy to use.
+ simple to install
+ easy to use
- I haven't found any flaws connected to functionality so far. Few HTML tidy warnings, but that is last thing some developers look at, all is fixable as long as you have some HTML and php knowledge ;P
Thanks to developer :)