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Category Archives: microformats

Useful links: purchase behavior, accessibility in a recession, eduWeb conf, and hAccessibility

Friday, January 30, 2009

A Razorfish study about social behavior and buying decisions, recession accessibility tips, the eduWeb Conference and a look at hAccessibility. More . . .

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Useful Links: Game Ratings, Naming Conventions, JQuery tutorial

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Entertainment Software Ratings Board provides a database of games that can be searched by rating. These are ratings for age-appropriateness and content, rather like movie ratings. If you are buying games for kids this year, it’s a handy resource. More on developing naming conventions, Microformats and HTML5 Andy Clarke talks about naming conventions in an [...]

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Findability: Is your blog as findable as possible?

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently. The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 [...]

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Useful Links: Photo Rights, Internet Lexicon, hCard, CollegeDegree

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Understanding Online Photo Rights This article is excellent. A must-read for students. The Internet Lexicon appeared in honor of OneWebDay and will stay editable for 2 months. Before you try adding a spoof of your favorite Internet personality, read the rules for participation. Getting Semantic with Microformats, Part 3: hCard A Blog Not Limited is writing [...]

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Useful links

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Microformats University – 100+ Articles and Resources is a helpful collection of microformats information. Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies at Read/Write Web: “The Semantic Web means many things to different people, because there are a lot of pieces to it. To some, the Semantic Web is the web of data, where information [...]

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Summary of eHow articles for February

Monday, February 25, 2008

It was cats and kids month in my personal life. In my writing life, here’s what I did at eHow in February. (The CSS attribute selector article appeared here first, in an easier to use format.) How to Work with Tables in Nvu How to Work with Images in Nvu How to Externalize JavaScripts and [...]

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How much modification can an hReview take and still be an hReview?

Friday, October 12, 2007

A comment yesterday made me reevaluate my abandonment of the microformat hReview. What I’m wondering is how customized can I make a review and still end up with something recognizable as the microformat. Or does it eventually become just random HTML? As I mentioned in a post on Oct. 10, I like the idea of [...]

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Why I’m abandoning hReview for book reviews

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I’ve been using hReview, the microformat, to write book reviews for several months now. I like the idea of a standard format that is recognizable to everyone looking for reviews. And I see good results with my reviews in search engines. But I have issues. For one thing, I don’t like the star character entity [...]

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BlogHer07 Presentation available online

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Skye Kilaen and I presented a program at BlogHer07 that is available for download from Skye’s site at All Access Blogging. It’s a large file in the original PowerPoint, so it’s a big download. Slides and speakers’ notes are both available. Skye talked about checking your blog for accessibility. I talked about checking your blog [...]

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Review: Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Apr 8, 2007 by Web Teacher product Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 ★★★★★ Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp (Friends of Ed, 2007) is a terrific book that tells you everything you need to know to begin using microformats well right now. I’ve been fascinated with microformats for a [...]

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