If you’re a Firefox user, you can add bookmarks to the Delicious web site. This is a great way to keep track of what you’ve read and want to read next. To add bookmarks, open Firefox and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main window. Then click on Add Bookmark. You’ll be asked for your name and email address. Type them in and hit OK. You’ll now see a list of all your bookmarks in Delicious. To access them, just click on one of them and it will take you to that page or article where you left off reading it.
Setup
Once you have finished installing the extension the first thing that you will need to do is open the “Customize Toolbar Window” so that you can add the “post 2 del.icio.us Toolbar Button” to your browser.
There is our wonderful new toolbar button waiting to be used!
post 2 del.icio.us in Action
For our example we decided to post a bookmark to Delicious for twirl.at (an URL shortening service).
When you click on the “post 2 del.icio.us Toolbar Button”, you will see the following window. It will display the URL and the webpage title. Notice that the “Replace” option is selected by default…
Make whatever changes that you desire to the information related to your new bookmark and then click on “Post”.
If you are not already logged into your account, you will be prompted to do so when you click on “Post”. As soon as you have finished logging in your new bookmark will be posted.
When your new bookmark has finished posting to Delicious, the following message window will appear for a few moments in the lower right corner of your computer screen.
Checking our Delicious account shows our new bookmark sitting nicely at the top of the list.
Look up the Current Page at Delicious
Perhaps you are curious about a webpage and would like to see if it has already been posted to Delicious and how popular it is. All that you will need to do is “Right Click” on the “post 2 del.icio.us Toolbar Button” and click on “Tasty?”.
Once you have clicked on “Tasty?”, you will be presented with a page showing information about the website such as how many times that it has been bookmarked, who has bookmarked it, etc.
Conclusion
Using post 2 del.icio.us provides a nice simple way to quickly add bookmarks to your Delicious account. What are some of your favorite ways to post to Delicious? Leave us a comment and let us know.
Links
Download the post 2 del.icio.us extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
Download the post 2 del.icio.us extension (Extension Homepage)
