get-started

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Get Started

Get started by adding support for microformats to your website, services, and products.

Microformats are designed to be similar to current markup styles. This means that it is quite possible that you won't have to do much work to produce microformats on your site. Many common kinds of content can be marked up in microformats. Chances are, you already have some of them on your site. Start with the obvious ones. For example...

yourself

your website

If you have your own website, read hcard-authoring and:

  • add hCard to your contact info page along with an "Add to address book" link
  • add hCard+XFN to your friends list or blog roll
  • add your website and contact page to the hcard-examples-in-wild page.

Start with the hCard creator and take a look at the hcard-examples. Read hcard-authoring for tips and guidelines on how to best markup existing content with hCard.

your blog

If you have a blog:

your organization

website

contact info

  • Contact info. Every company or organization has a contact or about page of some sort on their website. Read hcard-authoring and add hCard to the contact/about pages along with "Add to address book" links for each hCard.
  • Employee directory. If your company has a page listing employees or others that belong to the organization, add hCard to the listings or search results.
  • add those pages with hCards to the hcard-examples-in-wild page.

events

Use hCalendar anywhere on the website that publishes event information. Start with the hCalendar creator.

history

If your organization publishes its history, mark up the events noted with hCalendar, thus allowing anybody to build a dynamic timeline application with your history.

products

Does your company make any products that generate HTML?

  • Make sure such products generate POSH and whenever possible, the appropriate microformats.
  • Then add those products to the implementations page.

enterprise

Wondering how to use microformats in an enterprise scenario?

Any publication of information about people, events, reviews etc. could benefit from being marked up with hCard, hCalendar, and hReview respectively.

other content

  • Do you have an explicit copyright license on your content? Then markup the link to your license with rel-license.
  • Do you publish social network / relationship info? Then mark that up with XFN.
  • Are you tagging things? Then use rel-tag (for your own stuff) or xFolk (for tagging any URL).
  • Are you publishing lists or outlines? Then use XOXO.
  • Do you publish reviews? Then use hReview.
  • Do you publish press releases? Then use hAtom.

what next

Once you have added microformats support to your website and helped your company and organization do so as well:

  • Advocate the use and support of microformats on other sites as well.

And here're a few more tips:

see also