Cameron Olthuis

I’m sure you’re all familiar with del.icio.us. By now you either use it religiously or you’ve just heard me mention the name and you’re curious what it’s all about. Delcious is a social bookmarking web application, or in their own words… “del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s.” If you don’t use delicious yet this tutorial is for you, if you do use it then it’s very basic and you’ll find it boring, it’s just a getting started tutorial.

The reason I love delicious so much is because it allows me to easily bookmark any site I ever come across. I bookmark tutorials, motivational articles, and web sites that give design inspiration. It helps me remember these things and revisit them in the future when I otherwise may have forgotten. It’s easy to use and my bookmarks are always just a click away…

First of all go to del.icio.us. Where it says “Sign Up Now” go ahead and enter your email address, they don’t spam you I promise. Next you’ll see a page that asks you to enter a security code, they do this to make sure you’re a human and not a robot. Next you’ll see a page that tells you your account is setup and gives you directions on adding their buttons to your browser, this makes it easy to bookmark items you like. After you complete all this you’ll want to verify your email address and login to your account.

That’s it your done. You are now free to bookmark the world wide web. That was pretty easy wasn’t it?

There’s one more step. Delicious actually has an official Firefox Extension. Click install now and install it. Then you can tag right from the Firefox toolbar by clicking “tag this”. You can also visit your delicous homepage anytime by clicking where it says “delicious”.

By the way, if you like any of my blog entries you can bookmark them anytime you want.