So, I'm a little frustrated with del.icio.us . I wanted to check it out because honestly in the article we read about it, it had this really cool picture of all of a person's links in blue, different sizes, scattered, etc. I was like oh man that would be awesome if I could get all my links together on an attractive page like that and make it my homepage, I would be set!
Well, first I tried to register on a computer on campus but one of the steps is to download browser buttons, so I had to cancel and wait till I got home. I registered very easily and began to tag websites. I did my email first and that worked fine. Then every other website I tried to tag after that did not work with the simple "tag" button you have to download. I had to go back in the site and add the URL manually. And what made me REALLY mad is I can't figure out how to get to that cool link page that I saw in the article! I played around with the site for about half an hour and still can't figure it out!
The benefits I can see from the ideas we discussed in class, are that the tags allow you to link to other people with similar interests/sites, it is easy to register, and it is free, it is a good way to organize your favorite links (and would be even better if I could figure out how to not log in everytime I wanted my links). It also had a privacy setting about how much you wanted people to see of your network.
Of course the disadvantages include all the problems I mentioned before. I wish I could figure it out because I would love to use it now even for my personal homepage.
Anybody familiar with it and able to help me out??
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I would like to say...
I could not figure it out, either. I was feeling almost competent at this whole blog thing, until now.
If anyone helps you, please let me know, because it really does SOUND neat...
By the way, that was me, Elizabeth A. -- I'm not sure why it says msn girls group instead of my name!
hey Ashley. So I just had to create a del.icio.us account to see if I could figure out what was going wrong for you. I am at work right now, so I havent added the browsers buttons, but I have been playing around with adding sites to see if I can get the cloud to show up for me. I have this little box in the upper left hand corner that says tags. Under the tags line you can set how you want it to sort your tags (cloud, list, by frequency, alphabetically). I noticed that the more you use a certain tag the darker its color gets in the above small list, but I haven't gotten it to look like the one in class. The only thing that I can assume that happens is your box gets bigger and more cool looking the more sites you add and tag. Hope this helps. Have a good break :)
I appreciate your honesty. Some of these tools take longer than others to learn. I'm glad you're open to exploration though! Good job. 10/10
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