Delicious

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial”>Delicious is a social bookmarking website.  If you frequent certain sites often, it’s not uncommon to bookmark them in your Browser.  However, if you often switch computers, you may find that you only have access to those bookmarks saved on the computer on which you’re working.  Delicious solves that problem, and allows you to save your bookmarks online, in a social network. You can do so privately or publicly.  You can share bookmarks, tag them with keywords that will make them easy to find for you, and you can search others’ tags and bookmarks, if you are doing this publicly.

Signing Up:

To join, go to the delicious homepage where you can choose to create a new account.  Choose “Join Now” on the top right of the page and the following dialog box appears.

Fill in the information as requested, and you’re ready to begin bookmarking.

However, you may want to download the nifty toolbar it suggests for your browser, so you can bookmark directly without going to the site.  When you’re through setting up your account, you will see this option on your screen.  Click Download Toolbar.  An email will be sent to you verifying your request.  Open your mail, and follow the instructions there. After you download, and restart your browser, you’re account is activated and you are able to begin bookmarking.

Saving a Bookmark (From Delicious Getting Started Online Guide)

Saving a Bookmark on Delicious is likely to be a little different than what you’re used to. Don’t worry, we’ve made the process intuitive and you’ll find that tags and notes will make your bookmarks much easier to manage. 

Depending on which buttons you’ve added to your browser, you can click the “Tag” or “Bookmark this on Delicious” button to save a new bookmark. Regardless of the buttons you’ve chosen, you’ll see the following fields.

URL:

The URL field is simply the address of the page you’re bookmarking. This should be filled out for you. Only change this if you know what you’re doing.

Title:

If you’re using one of our bookmarking tools, this will be prefilled with the title of the page you’re saving. Feel free to edit this in any way that makes sense to you.

Notes:

Here’s where you may want to write some additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page.

Tags:

Enter one or more tags separated by spaces here. They are optional, but we suggest using them, as they make your bookmarks much easier to organize and navigate. For more on tags, read our tags section.

Send:

People and places you want to share your Bookmark with. This could be the social network Twitter, an email address, or a Delicious user

Message:

A message that will appear with your Tweet, Email, or Delicious message. Limited to 116 characters.

Once a bookmark is saved, this is how it looks in Delicious:

Getting Around 

We’ve organized the site into three main sections: Bookmarks, People and Tags. When you are logged in, these menus give you quick access to your Bookmarks, Network and Tags pages.

Our search allows you to not only search your own bookmarks, but virtually any context in Delicious. For example, you can now search a bundle, a tag, your Network, or another person’s bookmarks from our handy search box in the header. 

On most pages, our submenus allow you to quickly view Bookmarks, Network, Tags or Subscriptions for yourself or anyone else. Create a public profile, including a display name, to change how you appear in Delicious to others.

 Use our Tag Bar to quickly navigate your bookmarks by using tags and tag combinations. Just start typing – autocomplete will help you find the tag you want. You can also sort your bookmarks in a variety of ways to make your browsing easier. 

On the right side of the screen, our sidebars help you navigate tags and people quickly and easily. 

You can quickly see what a person’s bookmark collection is all about by looking at the top ten tags in their sidebar.

From the sidebar, you can now refine your view to show all bookmarks in a specific bundle. You can now bundle your network and subscriptions too! 

Confused about who ’stlhood’ is? Give any user in your Network a private nickname. 

Try it out!

The best way to learn how to use Delicious is to use Delicious. We designed it to be fun and easy to use, and we hope you find that to be the case. If you need help with anything, check out our help pages or contact us.