Comments on: End of Day: 23rd January http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/ News and Updates on the Community. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:16:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rock_the_night http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/comment-page-1/#comment-480 rock_the_night Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:38:06 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/#comment-480 "(Ed: How can you miss it on the Dev floor?)" There's always one... ;-) I just meant the pack should cover the 'softer' aspects of working here as well as the tools needed to do the job. "(Ed: How can you miss it on the Dev floor?)"

There's always one... ;-) I just meant the pack should cover the 'softer' aspects of working here as well as the tools needed to do the job.

]]> By: petejackson http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/comment-page-1/#comment-479 petejackson Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:23:32 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/#comment-479 Thanks Be3G. that's a fine explanation. Basically, it's a visual depiction of relevant content, where the importance or popularity of a particular topic is shown by font size. In our case each support page may be 'tagged' with one or more words; such as 'broadband' or 'router' for example. It's another way for us to try to make navigation to our help pages a bit more user-friendly. Tag clouds are used on many websites these days; a good example being Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ Wikipedia has a good explanation about how tag clouds work here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud Thanks Be3G. that's a fine explanation. Basically, it's a visual depiction of relevant content, where the importance or popularity of a particular topic is shown by font size. In our case each support page may be 'tagged' with one or more words; such as 'broadband' or 'router' for example. It's another way for us to try to make navigation to our help pages a bit more user-friendly.

Tag clouds are used on many websites these days; a good example being Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

Wikipedia has a good explanation about how tag clouds work here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud

]]> By: Be3G http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Be3G Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:09:10 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/#comment-478 To be honest, 'tag cloud' isn't really particularly inaccessible jargon about computers, so you might've been looking for something more complicated than it actually is. A 'tag' is, like in real life, a short description used to describe something - in this case, it's a word or two used to describe support articles. (For a very simple example, an article about fixing broadband faults might have the tags 'broadband' and 'faults'.) 'Cloud' then just refers to having a mass of the tags together in one big, well, cloud. There is one 'techy' aspect to this though which I suppose I should mention: the idea behind it is that more popular tags (i.e. tags used to tag a larger number of support articles) are made more prominent in the cloud; in this case it means they appear in a larger font size. To be honest, 'tag cloud' isn't really particularly inaccessible jargon about computers, so you might've been looking for something more complicated than it actually is. A 'tag' is, like in real life, a short description used to describe something - in this case, it's a word or two used to describe support articles. (For a very simple example, an article about fixing broadband faults might have the tags 'broadband' and 'faults'.) 'Cloud' then just refers to having a mass of the tags together in one big, well, cloud.

There is one 'techy' aspect to this though which I suppose I should mention: the idea behind it is that more popular tags (i.e. tags used to tag a larger number of support articles) are made more prominent in the cloud; in this case it means they appear in a larger font size.

]]> By: BobMilton http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/comment-page-1/#comment-477 BobMilton Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:03:24 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/01/23/end-of-day-23rd-january/#comment-477 I tried to follow the link to 'tag cloud', to find out what it meant. I am afraid I just got completely puzzled. Please what is a 'tag' ?? Perhaps the word cloud is appropriate, is it me that is clouded by the jargon, or is it someone whose head is in the clouds? Why is it that when I try to get some information, I am always bedazzled by this continual use of words and phrases which do not mean very much to a non technical person. I am sorry I am thick but I don't understand you. I tried to follow the link to 'tag cloud', to find out what it meant. I am afraid I just got completely puzzled.
Please what is a 'tag' ??
Perhaps the word cloud is appropriate, is it me that is clouded by the jargon, or is it someone whose head is in the clouds?
Why is it that when I try to get some information, I am always bedazzled by this continual use of words and phrases which do not mean very much to a non technical person. I am sorry I am thick but I don't understand you.

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