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= So you wanna use microformats? =
= So you wanna use microformats? =


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.
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...  
 
For example...  


* Do you have events information on your site? Then mark those events up with [[hCalendar]].  
* Do you have events information on your site? Then mark those events up with [[hCalendar]].  
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** Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator hReview creator].  
** Start with the [http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator hReview creator].  
* Do you publish press releases? Then use [[hatom|hAtom]].
* Do you publish press releases? Then use [[hatom|hAtom]].
You see, 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.


And here's a few more tips:
And here's a few more tips:

Revision as of 04:51, 30 January 2006

So you wanna use microformats?

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...

  • Do you have events information on your site? Then mark those events up with hCalendar.
  • Do you have people and their contact information? Then mark those up with hCard.
  • Do you have an explicit copyright license on your content? Then markup the link to your license with relLicense.
  • Do you have social networking data? Then mark that up with XFN. Are you tagging things? Then use relTag or xFolk.
  • Are you publishing lists or outlines? Then use XOXO.
  • Do you publish reviews? Then use hReview.
  • Do you publish press releases? Then use hAtom.

And here's a few more tips: