introduction

<entry-title>Introduction to Microformats</entry-title>

What are Microformats?

Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined.

More technically, they are items of semantic markup, using just standard "plain old semantic HTML" (i.e. "POSH") with a set of common class-names and "rel" values. They are open and available, freely, for anyone to use.

About You .................║▒\. .................║▒▒\......... ..........I .................║░▒║......... ........am .................║░▒║......... ........a .................║░▒║......... ........Shia .................║░▒║......... ........and .................║░▒║......... ........I .................║░▒║......... ........am .................║░▒║......... ........very .................║░▒║......... ........proud .................║░▒║......... ........of it .................║░▒║......... ........Ya Ali .................║░▒║...................Mudad .................║░▒║ zindagi ki asal khoubsurati ye nahi k aap kitney khush hain, balke zindagi ki real khoubsurati to ye hai ke doseray aap se kitnay khush han".

Hazrat Ali(A.S). یـــا عــــــــــــــلی۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا حســـــــــــــــن۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا حســــــــــــــــین۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا زیــن الـعــابـــدیــن۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا محمــــــدبــاقــــــــر۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا جعـــــــفرصــــــــادق۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا مــــوســــی كـاظـــــــم۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا مــــوســــی الــــــرضــــا۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا محمـــــدتقــــى الاجـــــواد۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا الـــهــــــادى الا نقــــــــــــی۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا حســـــــــــــــن عســـــــكـری۴ ♥ ♥ یـــا محـــــــمــــــد ا لمـــهــــــــــــدی۴ ♥ Live like Ali aleh salam and die like Hussain aleh salam

The Appeal to Simplicity

• Microformats are a simple effort which has appealed to many frustrated with previous complex efforts.

One parallel that has been drawn is to REST in the API / web services world - for more on REST see suggested reading on REST.

Get Started

It's easy to get started with microformats:

• get-started with adding microformats to your HTML

Learn More

Learn more about microformats from the microformats.org

• about page,
• blog,
• FAQ,
• articles,
• press,
• presentations,
• books,
• podcasts,
• screencasts,
• and more suggested reading.

See Also

• testimonials
• So you want to implement microformats?

External Resources

• Emily Lewis's excellent series of articles:
  • A Blog Not Limited: Getting Semantic With Microformats Series
• Sitepoint has a nice introductory tutorial:
  • Microformats - Plugging the Gaps in HTML
• Premasagar has written up
  • some nice microformats examples with source.

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