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Category Archives: microformats

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

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 [...]

Should your blog have an hCard?

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 [...]

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

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. [...]

When should we teach microformats?

Since I read Microformats Made Simple I keep toying with this question: when should we teach microformats? Odd that I didn’t think about this when I read Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 or when I recommended a couple of articles by John Allsopp in this post. My only excuse is that I was [...]

This is not a review of Microformats Made Simple

I’m not going to review Microformats Made Simple here because the author is a friend, I’m mentioned in a few places in the book, and I could not write an unbiased review. Add to that the fact that I think the author is awesomeness electrified, one of the women in tech to keep an eye [...]

Useful Links: FTC, font-embedding, microformats

The FTC and their new guidelines at Worker Bees Blog is a round up of all the correctly vetted and fact checked information about the new FTC guidelines for bloggers. If you want the straight story, go there. Becoming a font-embedding master from Jonathan Snook takes a look at all the aspects of this technique. [...]

Google makes search more semantic

A few links to help you understand the latest thing coming from Google.

SXSW: Microformats: A Quiet Revolution

Jeremy Keith (blurred), Tantek Celik (standing), Glenn Jones, Karsten Januszewski. Everyone is using microformats, even if we don’t know it. Keith showed us huffduffer, a site that creates bookmarks for audio information. It is a consumer of microformats. He talked about rel=”me” for pointing out where you exist on the web. Shows relationship of linked [...]

The hReview microformat I use

My adaptation of the hReview microformat. More . . .

Useful Links: Twitter hashtags, Imagine Cup, microformats, a CSS presentation

Twitter hashtags, a competition for students, microformats and a CSS presentation. More . . .