Creative Ways To Use Tag Clouds
Using constraint tags in Cloud Assembly You add constraint tags to blueprints and various other components within Cloud Assembly to match capabilities defined on resources, cloud zones, and profiles to generate appropriate deployments. There are two main areas in Cloud Assembly where constraint tags are applicable. This video shows how to quickly and easily create a Tag Cloud for your church website. A Tag Cloud is a visual representation of the content of the site.
You can use tags to label products, transfers, customers, orders, draft orders, and blog posts. After you add tags, you can use them for searching and filtering to help you stay organized while working in Shopify. Customers can't see tags, but your online store search uses tags to categorize products and organize search results for customers.
One way you can use tags is to group related products so you can make changes to them more quickly. For example, you could add the 'Summer' tag to related products. At the end of the season, you could search for the 'Summer' tag on your Products page to get a list of summer products, and use a bulk action to hide them from your sales channels.
Tip
Try using tags to group related items so you can view them all at once: orders using a particular shipping method, customers who accept email marketing, or products from a particular manufacturer.
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Tag types
You can create a custom set of tags for each section in Shopify where tags are used. When you create a tag in a particular section, it won't be copied to the other sections where tags are used. For example, you might want to organize orders by tags like packed
or test
, but use tags like tax exempt
or wholesale
to describe some of your customers. Each type of tag corresponds to the section it can organize:
Type | Description |
Product | Add and remove tags for a product on its details page. View all product tags from any product details page. Filter products by tag on the Products page and the Inventory page. Use product tags as selection criteria when you're building an automatic collection, or as filters when you're creating a menu. When a customer searches for a term that matches a product tag, the tagged products will appear in search results, although the tags are invisible to customers. You can apply up to 250 tags to each product. |
Transfer | Add and remove tags for a specific transfer on its details page. View all transfer tags from any transfer details page. Filter transfers by tag on the Transfers page. |
Order | Add and remove tags for a specific order on its details page. Filter orders by tag on the Orders page. |
Draft order | Add and remove tags for a specific draft order on its details page. View all draft order tags from any draft order details page.Filter draft orders by tag on the Draft orders page. When you create an order from a draft order, its tags are carried over and added as order tags. |
Customer | Add and remove tags for specific customers on their details pages. View all customer tags from any customer details page. Filter customers by tag on the Customers page. |
Blog post | Add and remove tags for a specific blog post on its details page. Filter blog posts by tag on the Blog posts page. |
Add a tag
You can add a tag when you are creating or editing products, transfers, orders, draft orders, customers, or blog posts.
Steps:
- Open the specific product, transfer, order, draft order, customer, or blog post details page in Shopify.
- In the Tags section, enter the name of a tag you want to add, or select it from the list of existing tags. If you enter the name for a new tag, then it will automatically be created for future use in the section.
- Click Save.
Note
Tags that are associated with orders and draft orders can have up to 40 characters. Tags that are associated with products, customers, transfers, and blog posts can have up to 255 characters. Tags aren't case sensitive. For example, Approved
and approved
are the same tag. Use only ordinary letters, numbers, and hyphens (-) in your tags. Accented characters and other symbols can exclude search results.
You can also add a tag from the full list that appears when you click View all tags on the product, transfer, draft order, or customer details page.
Steps:
- In the Tags section, click View all tags.
- Select a tag from the list.
- Click Apply changes.
Tip
Try using tags for items you might need to find quickly: phone orders, customers who need support, or seasonal products.
Remove a tag
You can remove a tag from products, transfers, orders, draft orders, customers, or blog posts.
Steps:
- Open the specific product, transfer, order, draft order, customer, or blog post details page in Shopify.
- Click the
x
beside the name of a tag that you want to remove. The tag will be removed only from the specific product, transfer, order, draft order, customer, or blog post. - Click Save.
You can also remove a tag from the full list that appears when you click View all tags on the product, transfer, draft order, or customer details page:
- In the Tags section, click View all tags.
- Click the
x
beside the name of a tag that you want to remove. - Click Apply changes.
Search by tag in Shopify
You can search for a tag that you have added to a product, transfer, order, draft order, customer, or blog post to help you find something more quickly. The search will return any results matching the tag. If you have created a tag but it isn't added to anything, then no search results will appear.
Steps:
- Enter the name of the tag in the Shopify search bar.
- View the matching results, and select a result to view it in detail.
Filter by tag
You can use relevant tags to filter the lists on the Products, Transfers, Draft orders, Customers, and Blog posts pages. You can also use product tags to filter the list of variants on the Inventory page.
To filter orders by tag, refer to Filter your orders.
Steps:
- On the relevant page, click the drop-down menu to apply a filter.
- Under Select a filter..., select the Tagged with option to filter by tag.
- Enter the name of the tag you want to use as a filter.
- Click Add filter to view a list of items with that tag.
When you apply more than one filter to a list, only the items that match all the filters appear in the filtered list. An item that doesn't match one or more of the filters won't appear in the filtered list.
Other ways to use tags
There are more ways to use tags and stay organized:
- Create an automated collection using tags.
- Tag products to help customers find them in your online store search.
- Filter with tags when you are creating a link to a collection in your online store navigation.
- Use a bulk action to add and remove tags for multiple items.
Summary: Tag clouds are overused. While looking pretty, they use screen space inefficiently, and many users don't know how to use them.
Sidebar to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 23, 2009 on mega drop-down menus.
Tag clouds were a huge fad in 2009 and have actually been a fad for several years. Even so, usability studies show that most normal users don't know what they are and don't know how to deal with them.
An interesting variant is the word cloud which can be used to visualize the most frequently-used words in a corpus of text. Wordle.net is a free service that draws attractive word clouds. Here are two of its pictures, showing the word use in two of our reports:
Some things are clear from a glance at the images:
- These are usability/user experience reports, as opposed to many other possible takes on the topics of applications and non-profit organizations. ('Users' is the biggest word in both clouds)
- The different focus of the two reports is also apparent.
- If one digs deeper, one can tell some other differences between the reports. For example, 'information' is bigger for Donations than for Applications.
- If one digs really deep, more insights appear. For example, at the bottom of the Donations cloud, we see that the tension between local and national charities is one of the issues covered in the report.
Even so, I don't think this is a great way of presenting the contents of these reports. A one-paragraph summary of each report would probably be more enlightening, be faster to scan, and would take up much less screen space, allowing for more items to be summarized on any given page.
For example, look at the summaries of the two Alertbox columns that announced these two reports:
10 Best Application UIs
Many winners employ dashboards to give users a single overview of complex information and use lightboxes to ensure that users notice dialogs. Also, the Office 2007 ribbon showed surprisingly strong early adoption.
Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities
User research finds significant deficiencies in non-profit organizations' website content, which often fails to provide the info people need to make donation decisions.
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My conclusion: Just because something looks cool and it's a current fad in web design, doesn't mean that it's necessarily best for usability and best for growing your business on the web. As usual, it's probably better for you to focus on some of the top-10 high-profit design priorities.