I deployed my tag cloud after messing around with it for a few days locally. I used Views_cloud module and some of the issues in the cue to figure out how to actually build a cloud. But I think I understand it now. My page view when you click on a tag is still not how I want it to display, but its close enough for now. I think I need to fix the CSS of that view or something. The node titles display in 90000 pt type, and I couldn't see a way to control that anyway, and I'm not sure why it would do that by default.
My cloud is weighted by how many postings in each term. I also learned how to weight the terms based on different fields; like how many comments they have, or most recent, or just about anything else.
As for views itself, I still am kinda confused by the arguments. But like everything else for me, the more I use it hands on, the better I understand it. Views is simply amazing!