843 Blogumus: a flash animated label cloud for Blogger!
August 28, 2008 / Filed under: Gadgets Labels Categories and Tags
"Blogumus" is an Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress. I fell in love with Roy's original Cumulus plugin when I saw it, and simply had to learn how to convert this for use in Blogger powered blogs. The result is the widget you can see in action at the top of this post. Hover your mouse over the Flash object to see the animation begin. In this post, I'll explain how you can add Blogumus to your own Blogger layout with ease!
Update #2 (27th April 2010)
Due to hosting issues, Blogumus has stopped working for those who had previously installed using these instructions. I've resolved the hosting issues by uploading to Google Sites and have edited the following tutorial for installation accordingly.
Unfortunately, this does mean you'll have to reinstall your Blogumus widget or change the URLs to the swfobject.js and tagcloud.js files in your template code in order to ensure your widget works properly again (new installations should work just fine).
If you'd like to reinstall this widget, you can delete the Blogumus gadget from within the Layout>Page Elements section of your Blogger dashboard and use the instructions below to add it again.
If you'd simply like to change the URLS to the fi
