go to your blog dashboard and choose Layout -> Edit HTML.. search the following code :
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
After this line copy the following code :
<b:widget id='Label999' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<script src='http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy Tanck</a> and <a href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda Fazani</a></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new SWFObject("http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", "210", "300", "7", "#ffffff");
//so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addVariable("tcolor", "0x333333");
so.addVariable("mode", "tags");
so.addVariable("distr", "true");
so.addVariable("tspeed", "100");
so.addVariable("tagcloud", "<tags><b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'><a href='data:label.url' style='12'><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
in this default installation, Blogumus includes the following preset variables:
* Width is set to 240px
* Height is set to 300px
* Background color is white
* Text color is grey
* Font size is 12
editing width and height..
the variables for width and height are found in this line of the script:
var so = new SWFObject("http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", "210", "300", "7", "#ffffff");
editing background color..
var so = new SWFObject("http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf", "tagcloud", "210", "300", "7", "#ffffff");
//so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
to this;so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
simple, right? hope this tutorial helps you.. good luck!