Stanback.Net - Blog Post http://www.stanback.net.com/ en Brian Stanback 1998-2007 120 Tag Cloud Usability http://brianstanback.com/blog/tag-cloud-usability.html Lately I've been playing with the mootools javascript framework and I've been exploring some of the possibilities of improved user-content interaction. I've come up with an "enhanced" tag cloud filter which allows users to quickly narrow down tag results based on popularity or search for a particular tag. A demo, along with the pertinent javascript source, is available at my links archive page.

I've also released a new plugin for MODx, virtual aliases, which allows multiple document aliases to be defined for a single document. To preserve search engine friendliness, the virtual aliases are 301 redirected to the actual document.

Lastly, I've posted a few screenshots of the latest development version of my counter/stats application. I'm planning a name change as well as a full development API, which I am currently in the midst of coding. For database abstraction, I'm making use of the OpenExpedio framework for maximum scalability and compatibility.

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