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Useful Links: Microformats are Hot, Accessibility Infographics, Nerd Words, Structure and Presentation

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Web Data Commons Launches has data showing that about 89% of all structured data on the web is in the form of microformats. 5 Infographics on Web Accessibility for Designers is a nice compilation. 6 Made up Nerd Words that Made it to Common Usage, and 8 that Should. The Separation of structure, presentation and [...]

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Useful links: Tech in ed, microformats on Facebook, App resource

Thursday, September 8, 2011

The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools. Don’t know how I missed this back in July, but I just found it. Facebook Quietly Adds Microformats to “Download Your Info” Feature. A little slow of the uptake, wasn’t it? For those of you in the business of making apps, a site you may learn [...]

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Useful Links: Simple CSS, semantic web, EE

Friday, July 22, 2011

Chris at CSS Tricks has a great post in Little CSS Stuff Newcomers Get Confused About. Bing Brings it On (RFDa, that is) at Semantic Web: Bing webmaster help site that indicates Microsoft wants to play nice with whatever markup approach webmasters want to implement – microdata, microformats, or RDFa. The site mark-up overview on [...]

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Useful links: captioning YouTube, HTML5, or not, Final Cut Pro X

Friday, June 24, 2011

YouTube’s instructions on how to add captions to your video. How is HTML5 changing web development? An interview with Remy Sharp. Stop Obsessing over HTML5 and CSS3. Paul Boag has some ideas about what we should be thinking about instead of merely worrying about learning HTML5 and CSS3. What I want to know is does [...]

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Modifying an hReview microformat to include HTML from schema.org

Friday, June 3, 2011

Google, Yahoo and Bing announced schema.org yesterday. Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables [...]

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Foundational HTML talk from Emily Lewis

Friday, February 18, 2011

Get to know Emily Lewis, who will be on a panel at SXSW Interactive this year. This is a recent talk she gave to a local tech group called Webuquerque. She talks about the basics of good markup, semantics, and new concepts in markup. It’s about an hour long. I think it would make a [...]

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Useful Links: PowerPoint, Microformats in HTML5, dConstruct audio

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

PowerPoint Accessibilty at WebAIM tells you how to create an accessible PowerPoint presentation. The news for Mac users is not good. Extending HTML5 – Microformats at HTML5 Doctor is a must read and explains the “wrinkles.” As most microformats use only class and/or rel — basic parts of HTML that remain unchanged in HTML5 — [...]

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Useful Links: Microformats, HTML5 Mess, gender issues, accessibility conference, CSS spirites, Twitter in class

Friday, January 22, 2010

Microformats Workshop is the slides by Emily Lewis from the Workshop Summits event. Outstanding presentation, excellent slides. SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess is a discussion about HTML5 and related issues among Sitepoint’s Kevin Yank, Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems  of the CSSquirrel web comic. whose voice do [...]

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Should your blog have an hCard?

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

What’s an hCard, you ask? It’s a digital version of a business card. You put it on your blog or website and it provides your name, your contact information and other information you want people to know. Because it’s digital, it can be exported from your web page to an address book and synched to [...]

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Useful Links: Intro to HTML5, Univ. Web survey, paid to tweet

Monday, November 23, 2009

Introduction to HTML5, microformats and CSS3 is a screencast showing the building of a web page in HTML5. State of the University Web Department Survey results are available at eduGuru. The survey included all sorts of interesting questions such as university size, CMS used, technology used, department size, decision makers, frequency of redesign and more. [...]

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