How to make colorful tag cloud?

[Sunburnt]

Just saw Directory of niche and regional/local directories only - IndexU Directory tag cloud with different colors for tags.

Anyone know how and where to change the codes for to get that effect? The new templates for 5.4 are just plain single color for the tags.

[dody]

I hope zubby will share here, or you may send him a message in helpdesk.

[jg123]

Also can it be spaced out any better, if you look on my directory totalxsearch.com the tags overlap and it is hard to click them.

thanks

[Sunburnt]

Thanks Zubby! It looks great now on my site.

[jg123]

Looks nice and they are spaced out properly. Can you post here and share?

[dody]

Sunburnt, it could be useful if you post here too

[Sunburnt]

Ok folks, here's how Zubby does it. Just edit the /themes/yourthemes/blocks/blocks.tag_cloud.html. Replace your current block <ul id="popular_tags">...</ul> with the code below:

<ul id="popular_tags">
<%section name=i loop=$tags_cloud%>
<%php%>
$colors = "0123456789ABCDE";
$tag_color = "#";
for ($ii = 1; $ii <= 6; $ii++) {
$tag_color .= $colors[rand(0, 14)];
}
$this->_tpl_vars['tag_color'] = $tag_color;
<%/php%>
<li class="<%$tags_cloud[i].class%>"><a href="<%$tags_cloud[i].url%>" title="<%$tags_cloud[i].tag%>"><font color="<%$tag_color%>"><%$tags_cloud[i].tag%></font></a><span><%$tags_cloud[i].total%></span></li>
<%/section%>
</ul>

[jg123]

That made the tags on the seperate pages colored but it did not change the look of the tags on the home page. I also have a file named 'block.tags_cloud_small.html' do I need to change that too? I am using version 5.4.0

Update: Ok I decided to make the same changes to the other file and it worked. Now I would like to know if there is a way to space them out a bit more cause they sort of overlap, any ideas?

thanks