Today we will be making a tag cloud, these have been very popular lately in the whole Web 2.0 scene. An example of what we are going to make can be found by visiting any one of numerous sites out today. A tag cloud is broken down into 2 parts, the tags and the cloud. The tags are keywords given to certain elements of a site, usually a news item, article or tutorial. A cloud then grabs all the tags and sorts them; during this sorting any tag that is found or used multiple times will have a bigger font size to stand out against the ones that are not used alot. The bigger the font size, the more this tag is used widely.
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Lets begin by setting up a scenario. You just woke up and jumped out of bed, you just finished breakfast or you just arrived at work. You plan to start off this wonderful day by reading your emails and getting them out of the way. You launch your mail client and wait for the connection, your "new mail" notification pops up, it beings downloading the new messages (you get a bit of joy out of this), you then click the inbox icon which is associated with the current amount of mail in it (you have alot and are quite pleased), but then... Once you are in your inbox, you realize something horrible, your inbox is full of spam! Literally 95% of your emails you were planning on reading are spam. It aggravates you, you wonder how this happened and why you get so much irritating spam! Well in this tutorial, we will teach you the basics of how to encrypt your email to stop spam bots in their tracks and safe ways to stop bots from fetching your email address.
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