Wordle

The Image to the left was created using wordle.net.

It is super easy to use. You can either copy and paste text into the text block or enter a Web site address that has RSS feeds.

I entered the URL for TheEpitaph.com. The words that appear most often are displayed in a larger size.

Clearly this is mostly eye candy for your site, but it does help visualize what words are most popular within the text. Here is an example of how word clouds can be used.

The site allows you to change the colors, fonts, and layouts.

Here is another wordle creation. This time the source was copy and pasted from the the curriculum page on journalism.arizona.edu


Wordle provides the html to put a small image on your site, but you can also take a screen capture if you want a bigger version. To take a screen shot on a Mac, hit: "apple" "shift" and "4" all at the same time. Then drag the cross around the word cloud. It will save the image to your desktop.

If you are running Windows, hit the "print screen," open an image editing application and select "edit" > "paste."