For a while now, I’ve been using this little trick to bookmark mobile sites from my desktop. I thought I’d share.

1. Get a del.licio.us account

2. Bookmark a few mobile sites from your desktop – tag them with a specific tag that will only be used for mobile bookmarks.

3. Go to http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls and create a linkroll for your page. Make sure to check the “only these tags” box, and enter the tag or tags you use for your mobile sites.

4. Make a barebones web page and copy the suggested code into it.

5. Put this page in a web-accessible folder so you can get to it from your mobile device.

The benefits to doing this are that very time you want to bookmark a cool mobile site you see while browsing the web from your desktop, you can bookmark it on your mobile without typing in the address on the device or emailing it to yourself, etc. Plus you always have your bookmarks even if you change phones.

Keep in mind, this code is going to be simple Javascript, so your mobile browser will have to support it. I’ve tried it on tons of smartphone browsers and have had no problems. But smartphone browsers tend to have better javasctipt support than the craptastic browsers on mid and low-range devices. In those cases you can always use Opera Mini.

Mine looks like this. I keep it very very barebones so it’s quick to load and I don’t have to scroll to the bookmarks I really use. I put my desktop bookmark categories at the bottom just in case I need to get to one of my desktop sites.