Blog post format challenge (was Re: [microformats-discuss] Weblog entries and forum posts)

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Ahem:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fapril291.blogmatrix.org%2F

This will be the template every blog we produce by the end of next Friday.

I'll take my chances with the tables, at least until I have the cash 
lying around to pay for another web designer.

Regards, etc...
David
http://www.blogmatrix.com

Tantek Çelik wrote:

> 1. Make sure your blog validates.
> 
> That's two things actually.  First, start a blog yourself!
> 
> There are at least two folks participating in this discussion thread who
> themselves do not have blogs!
> 
> What are you thinking?
> 
> Microformats are based on practical, first-hand experience.  Theoreticians
> and academics need not apply.
> 
> You've got until your next post on this thread to start a blog and post a
> few times before you get called on it.
> 
> 
> Second, make sure it validates.  Of all the folks who *do* have blogs who
> are participating this thread (self excluded), only *one* of them is
> currently valid:
> 
> Björn Seibert, I presume this is yours: http://www.bs-markup.de/
> 
> Well done.  
> 
> 
> The rest of you, who I'm not going to name, but you know who you are..
> 
> Clean it up!
> 
> 2. Once you've got a blog and it's valid, see if you can:
>  * eliminate tables for presentation [1]
>  * eliminate bed and breakfast markup [2]
>  * eliminate anorexic anchors [3]
>  * use non-presentational class names (don't worry about using microformat
> ready class names just yet) [4]
> 
> 
> 3. Once you've succeeded with that, *then* see about experimenting with your
> thoughts about a blog post microformat, using your blog, and send in a URL
> with an example.
> 
> 
> This community very much believes in "being real", and in contrast to
> self-proclaimed markup experts who can't even publish valid XML nor HTML
> themselves but who love to pitch the virtues of XML and and their personal
> XML-based standards (you know who they are), we're very much going to be
> living up to our own standards with our actions and publications, not just
> our talk.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tantek
> 
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