Making Your Content Discoverable with Microformats

A presentation at Future of Web Design Tour Glasgow in September 2009 in Glasgow, UK by Drew McLellan

Now both Google and Yahoo! are indexing microformats, designers can no longer afford to ignore them. See how to add different microformats to your content, and then watch as we spin the tables and use them to read data back out.

A live-coding demo of using microformats in your HTML and discovering them with JavaScript.

(Venue photo by Patrick Lauke)

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Good craic with @brucel, @patrick_h_lauke & @drewm hope to see them all again if they survive their fried mars bar / ruby combo ;) #FOWD
— Aaron Bassett - Developer Advocate 🥑 (@aaronbassett) September 14, 2009
heading back from #fowd. Name to face ratio now a little higher. @drewm's me new hero
— Michael McGarrity (@michaelmcguk) September 14, 2009
Really nice slides from @drewm at #fowd #typography
— Andrew Armitage (@aarmitage) September 14, 2009
Enjoying the afternoon sessions at #fowd by @patrick_h_lauke and @drewm. Looks like kinder eggs are becoming a web conference must have.
— Sam Brown (@sambrown) September 14, 2009
#fowd so far...Interesting microformat stuff from @drewm. Can see where it could be implemented. Tough room for Microsoft guy on Silverlight
— Derek Nelson (@dN_redNests) September 14, 2009
@drewm and very good it was too drew!! Nice last demo - v impressive
— Gary Ennis (@nsdesign) September 14, 2009

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