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A Guide to using Delicious

Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1 Overview of a user’s Delicious page ......................................................................................... 2 Getting registered with Delicious .............................................................................................. 3 Signing in to your Delicious account ......................................................................................... 4 Bookmarking a website and adding Tags .................................................................................. 5 Editing a bookmark .................................................................................................................... 6 Making private bookmarks public ............................................................................................. 7 Sharing specific bookmarks with others .................................................................................... 8 Using your Inbox ....................................................................................................................... 9 Creating a Network .................................................................................................................. 10 Making your Network private .................................................................................................. 11 Subscriptions ............................................................................................................................ 11 Searching.................................................................................................................................. 12

A guide to using Delicious Introduction

When you go to the Delicious homepage (http://delicious.com) you see the most popular ookmarks that people are currently saving. The Tags are the keywords that people are using to escribe their bookmarks. You can click on any tag to see other popular bookmarks tagged with he same keyword. In this way you can find links useful for yourself.

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Figure 1 − Delicious Home page

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http://delicious.com/

Overview of a user’s Delicious page

Everyone who is registered to use Delicious has their own web page from where their saved bookmarks can be accessed. All these different Delicious web pages are available for anyone to see. People are able to follow what others are bookmarking and save what is relevant to them. This is what makes bookmarking in Delicious “social”. The key parts are: • The name of the user who created the bookmarks is displayed at the top of the page. • The total number of bookmarks saved by the user is shown. • For each bookmark the number of other users who have also saved them is shown. • All the Tags used to categorise the bookmarks are displayed.

Number of websites bookmarked by this user

Name of the user who created the bookmarks

Tags used to

organise bookmarks

Number of other users who have also bookmarked this website

Most recently bookmarked websites


Figure 2 − Overview of a user’s Delicious page

Getting registered with Delicious

Delicious is a free social bookmarking website, but you must register to use it. • Open your web browser and go to http://delicious.com • Click on Join Now to go to the registration page.

Registration will takes you through three steps: 1. Enter your details to create an account.

Note: Your user name is included in the URL for your delicious page, so keep it short and relevant

2. Install the additional buttons to your browser to enable you to bookmark links more easily

(recommended). They make it easier to create your bookmarks in Delicious and manage them. 3. Import existing bookmarks from your web browser. You can choose to import some, all or

none of your existing bookmarks (Don’t worry if you change your mind, you can import them later).

Delicious Button


Tag button

Sidebar button

Figure 3 − Browser buttons for IE

http://delicious.com/

Signing in to your Delicious account

You need to be logged into Delicious before you can start saving bookmarks. • Use the Delicious button on your browser to go directly to the home page. • Go to the delicious home page and click on the link to Sign In.

Delicious Button

Figure 4 − Delicious Button

• Add your username and password created during the registration. • Click in the Keep me signed in box so you do not have to repeat the sign in process (Only do

this on computers not shared with others) • Click Sign In

Figure 5 − Delicious Sign in page

This can be selected so you only have to enter you sign in details once


Bookmarking a website and adding Tags

When you want to bookmark a site, click on the tag button at the top of the browser.

Tag Button

Figure 6 − Tag Button

A “Create Bookmark” window will appear with some information automatically added and some to complete. • URL – filled in for you (but you can edit) • Title – filled in for you with title of page (but you can edit) • Notes – can be used to remind you why you saved the link or let others know what is good

about it. • Tags – delicious recommends suitable tags, including those that you commonly use as well as

those that are most popular. Click on a tag to include it or type your own (most people use between 2 ‐ 5 tags to categorise links).

Keeps bookmark private

Type your own tags in directly

Click on suggested tags to use them

Figure 7 − Create Bookmark window

Click on Save to add your bookmark to your delicious account.


Note: Your bookmark is automatically made public, if you want to keep it private, click in the do not share box. This information can be edited once the bookmark is saved

Editing a bookmark

You can edit or delete a saved bookmark from your Delicious pages at anytime. • To dit, click on the EDIT button e

Edit Button Figure 8 − Edit a saved bookmark

• The details about that bookmark will be displayed. Make changes to the URL, title, notes or tag and click Save to confirm.

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Figure 9 − Changing the information about a saved bookmark


Making private bookmarks public

Bookmarks saved with your buttons are public by default, but imported bookmarks are private by efault. If you see a grey block and a lock next to a bookmark, that means it is a private bookmark nd only you can see it. To make a private bookmark public again, click on the share link. da

Private bookmark

Click Share to make public

Figure 10 − Changing bookmarks to be public

Note: If you're not logged in, you won't be able to see your private bookmarks either.


Sharing specific bookmarks with others

By default your delicious web pages are public and anyone can view them by going to your delicious web address http://delicious.com/username Equally you can view other people’s delicious pages. To send specific bookmarks, public or private, to other users you can add a unique tag, which tarts with for: followed by their username (For example, for:wylier). This sends the bookmark to he users’ Inbox which is always private. st


Figure 11 − Adding a [for:] tag to share with a specific user

for:wylier tag added to share bookmark with another user ‐ wylier

Using your Inbox

When you are sent a bookmark from another user it appears in your Inbox • The Inbox links, which are at the top of all pages on Delicious, show the number of new

bookmarks that you have received. • Clicking on either link opens your Inbox and displays the bookmarks you have been sent from

other Delicious users

• You can choose to save the bookmarks into your own list or delete them.

Inbox links

Bookmark sent from another user

Figure 12 − Inbox page


Creating a Network

If you are going to share bookmarks with the same people regularly you can add them to your etwork. Your Network connects you to other Delicious users and allows you to readily view and ollect each other’s bookmarks. Nc

Adding users to your Network Network link

Figure 13 − Network page

To add a person to your Network: • Go to your Network page • Select Add a user to Network from the menu at

the top right. • Type in their username and click Add.

Figure 14 − Adding a user to your Network


Note: To remove a person from your Network, mouse over their name in the sidebar of your Network page click the "edit" icon to the right of their name, and select Remove.

Making your Network private

Your network is automatically visible to other people. However, you can hide your network if you don’t want other people to see who you are connected to.

This option is accessed via the Network options link on your Network page.

Figure 15 − Making your Network private Subscriptions

S ubscriptions allow you to follow bookmarks related to specific tags

• Visit your Subscriptions page and click Add a subscription in the action box on the top right of the page

• You also have the option to follow the tag just for a specific user if you add their user name

Figure 16 − Adding a subscription


Searching

You can search for the most popular bookmarks related to specific tags from the delicious homepage. You can search through bookmarks by selecting from one of options: • Bookmarks on the page you are currently viewing • Your own bookmarks • The users in your network

• Everyone’s bookmarks

Figure 17 − Searching options

By default the search engine goes through bookmark descriptions, notes, and tags. To search just tags, prefix the search term with tag: (for example tag:education).


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