Almost as good as chocolate

I'm sold--del.icio.us is awesome! Not only is it an improvement on my browser's "Favorites" capability but it's an amazing tool for finding great web sites. In less than ten minutes, I found, evaluated, and made bookmarks of four sites that will help with my goal to master CSS.

My biggest problem with "Favorites" has always been that I can't annotate the bookmarks--del.icio.us automatically includes the description if the web site has one and allows me to add my own comments as well. There are no folders in del.icio.us, but the tags work about the same way. In fact, tags have an advantage in that a site can have more than one tag--like putting the same web site in two different folders in Favorites, which I could have done before, but didn't. With tags, I probably will do that sort of thing when I want the same site to come up if I'm playing with CSS or if I'm concentrating on good web design.

Yesterday was the first time I started making del.icio.us bookmarks, but I've spent a couple of days on and off exploring the links. Everything that appears in del.icio.us was considered worthy enough by someone to bookmark, so the search results are of higher quality than you get from search engine. And, since so many people are doing it, you get a lot more results than from a highly selective directory like Librarians' Index to the Internet. Not that I'm giving up either one of those useful tools, but del.icio.us is a great thing to add to my bag of tricks.

I had a few problems. I couldn't always get to a search page when I wanted--and late in the evening, that didn't matter much, because "search" didn't seem to work at all. Also, the most active tags are on the top page and the most popular tags are on the popular page--is there a way to get to all the tags? But even not yet fully functional, the potential power of this tool is evident.     #

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