A great introduction to microformat examples

May 11, 2007 by Jim Callender
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★★★★☆

A review of last nights presentation on Microformats by Jeremy Keith, at the Lighthouse, Brighton.
It was a relaxed affair, Skillswap’s 3rd event this year.. There was about 15 other freelancers in a room with Jeremy on a sofa in front of a projector..

It was a basic intro and hands on workshop to hcards, hcalendar, geo, amongst others..

We realised that microformats usage should be an easy way of publishing for humans firstly, then ease of use for computers/machines should come after this.

We also looked at tools to create microformats. As well as real life examples, corkd.com of course. How to contribute to the microformats community, and what the future holds.

The hot news is that him and Tantek Celik are doing a days workshop together in September in Brighton.. a couple of days before Dconstruct.

My two favourite tips I noted were:

‘microformats solve 80% of the problems, with 20% of the effort‘.

and

‘use microformats for extra semantic richness‘.

>> From just discovering what can be done with microformats I whole heartidly agree!.

As always with Skillswap theres a debrief afterwards in the pub, the good thing about grass roots networking is there is always something new to learn, go and check out or some little piece of information to make your life easier.

‘html the most powerful language on the web‘ Jeremy Keith

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