by spendlove Moderator 27 Jan 2016

There are some fabulous examples of the use of Tags in the Projects section which have made me promise to try harder to add them to my own projects.


Some hints on their use:
Each time you press the space bar you will have a new tag. If you want to keep words together you need to hyphenate them. (See Pennifold's SEWING-MACHINE-COVER)
Valentine is a great tag - just click on one of them and see how many projects come up! Similarly ith.
Before you add a tag, have a look what other people have used. Click on a few to test how successful they are.
If you keep the tag simple, it is more likely to be successful!

Feel free to add your own tips in this thread.

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by cfidl 06 May 2016

I looked up visor and got 1 post, however it linked to a 404 not found.

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by crafter2243 Moderator 05 May 2016

Also if you string things together like "green-fsl-babyoutfit" you would not find them under either one of those intended tags. They need to be separated. One would have to know the whole string in order to be able to find it.

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by spendlove Moderator 05 May 2016

I thought this thread was worth reviving. Please remember that a tag should help people find all similar items so we need to be simple and consistent with their use. Otherwise the tag is useless.

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mops by mops 05 May 2016

I think the most useful ones are those about the Project (purse, bag, doily, quilt, and so on), sort of design (ith, cross-stitch, redwork, appliqué, etc)
You can use those for a search using
cuteembroidery.com/projects/tag /xxx
xxx=the tag you want to have a look at.

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by rescuer Moderator 12 Feb 2016

I do wish all Cuties would take the time to read these important tips.
There many things to learn in the Q&A section too.

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by mops Moderator 27 Jan 2016

The tip on using hyphens is a very good one. Not using those has produced quite a lot of useless tags, like "a", "in", "the"

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by crafter2243 Moderator 27 Jan 2016

The tags are so helpful. Thank you for the reminder. specially the one that every space bar creates a new tag, which can create some crazy results.

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by jrob Moderator 27 Jan 2016

I noticed that some folks were adding their avatar and that is not necessary to add as a tag. If you click on your avatar at the top where it says Hi jrob (or yours, of course) you will see the "home" symbol then your avatar name again. Click on it and you will see ALL of your comments, questions (from the Q&A section) and then ALL of your projects. Neat, huh?
You can even click on the avatars of others to find their projects all together.

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lbrow by lbrow 27 Jan 2016

One of my fave things to do. I lovetoo go back and enjoy seeing something do e a yr or so ago. Even my own sometimes I forget some of the things . I have done/Lillian

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by 02kar Moderator 27 Jan 2016

Thanks for the lesson. I had no idea

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by sdrise 27 Jan 2016

I discovered that the other day Neat!!

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by basketkase 27 Jan 2016

Always learning something new.......all along I thought the tags were auto added picking up on certain words........had no idea how they worked, will investigate and try to remember to use them......Thanks, Sue!!

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spendlove by spendlove 27 Jan 2016

You can add them if you edit the posts - might be worth a try to see how they work.

jrob by jrob 27 Jan 2016

rescuer did a wonderful tutorial on how that's done, it you need to refer to it.
http://www.cuteembroidery.com/961...

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