Do Tag Clouds Work for Chinese Web Sites?
Tag Cloud in Chinese websites — “Tag cloud displays tags in a website which emphasize some of the tags by showing them with larger font sizes, and/or in darker colors. Moreover, tags in a tag cloud are usually arranged in alphabetical order. Tag cloud seems to work in the English world as a means of visualization as well as an extra means of navigation - what about in the Chinese world or more specifically, what about in Hong Kong?”
It ain’t so simple…
“First of all, alphabetical sorting does not work at all for Chinese characters.”
“Secondly, it can be challenging to show Chinese characters of different font sizes in a proper way.”
“Thirdly, a tag cloud on Chinese website would not consist of only tags in Chinese.”