Online Bookmarks Project - Introduction

I've been working hard the past 2 weeks on a project that I decided to take on. I've searched long and hard for a good online bookmarking site, but I didnt find any that suited my needs. So I decided to create my own bookmarking site. I got sick and tired of having my bookmarks all over the place. This included my work laptop, my home laptop, my home desktop and not to mention the different browsers I used. I tried Yahoo and Google bookmarks, but you have to sign in to view your bookmarks. As Stephanie Tanner from Full House would say, "How rude!". Anyways, here is the list of features that I wanted in an online bookmarking site.

• Simple - the process of adding bookmarks had to be simple.


• No install - I didnt want to install anything for my browser.


• Public - I wanted to view my stored bookmarks WITHOUT having to log in.


• One page - I wanted all my bookmarks displayed on one single web page.


• Friendly URL - I wanted a simple and easy url to remember.
  ie. testbookmarks.com/rogerchew instead of testbookmarks.com/user/sdka232akmjc

I do all of my web programming in Coldfusion. So I just thought I would try to google "coldfusion bookmarks" to see if there was anything out there that I could use or repurpose. I couldnt believe it, but the first search result was about someone who created a coldfusion bookmarking application that was very close to how I wanted it. He even documented it and posted all of the files on his site. I download the files and was up and running in no time. Check out the site for screenshots of how it works. But briefly, here is how it works.

1. You are surfing and you like the website you are on and would like to save it.


2. You click on the special bookmark in your browser.


3. You enter a title for the bookmark.

You'll be able to save an online bookmark with 2 mouse clicks. Now, whenever you would want to see a single page of your entire saved bookmarks, you would just have to navigate to something like testbookmarks.com/joesmith. Like it?!

Now how does this solve my problem? Well, now I can just go to a single web page to access all of my bookmarks, no matter which computer, browser, or OS Im using. I can even access all of my bookmarks on public computers like at the library or school.

Stay tuned as I will let you demo the application.