Adding del.icio.us Widget

What is del.icio.us?

The website del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious”) http://www.del.icio.us/ is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

For a quick understanding of del.icio.us, please watch the following video “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” by Common Craft.

How Do you Add the del.iciou.us widget to your blog?

1. Join del.icio.us at http://www.del.icio.us/

2. Click Presentation, Widgets and drag the del.icio.us widget from the Available Widget area into the sidebar.

3. Click the little box on the right side of the del.icio.us widget, you will see the following configuration box

4. You can change the “Widget title” to whatever you want to call, enter you del.icio.us account that you had registered e.g. http://del.icio.us/johnpeter, remember just enter the “johnpeter” part, andNOT the whole URL; you can enter other del.icio.us users’ account if you want to, if you do not have one;

5. Enter the “Number of links” that you want to appear on your blogs;

6. If you want to show just the selected tags from your del.icio.us account, enter the tags that you want, leaving blank will show all tags;

7. Remember to Click “Save Changes” before you exit the Sidebar Widgets; If everything is correct you will start seeing your recent del.icio.us bookmarks showing up in your sidebar.