Entic.net: On The Cloud

We'll offer 3 months of free OpenSolaris VPS (up to 512 mb RAM) service for anyone that provides the most efficient algorithm (in the form of a Class) of a Tag Cloud generator. Input is a dictionary. The keys will be the tag name, the values of those keys are the "members" of the tag, from which you generate the tag count.

Please be sure to check with us before starting the challenge.

Update Oct 26th:
The original post was grossly non-verbose. Here are a little bit more details.

Input is a dictionary like:

tagdict = {"things": ["pen", "paper"], "animals": ["frog", "snake", "lion"]

HTML Markup, example:

        #tagcloud{
            text-align:center;
        }

        #tagcloud .tiny {
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            font-size: 12px;
            color: #6699CC;
            text-decoration:none;
        }
        #tagcloud .med {
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            font-size: 13px;
            color:#FF9900;
            text-decoration:none;
        }
        #tagcloud .big {
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            font-size: 16px;
            color:#990000;
            text-decoration:none;
        }
        #tagcloud .verybig {
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            font-size: 18px;
            color:#99CC00;
            text-decoration:none;
        }

        #tagcloud a:hover{
            color:#000;
        }

        <div id="tagcloud">...</div>

Instantiating the class:

t = tagCloud(tagdict)
html = t.get_html

The output ("html" value) should be something like:

<a href="" class="tiny" id="things">things</a>
<a href="" class="med" id="animals">animals</a>