Making Your Content Discoverable with Microformats

A presentation at Future of Web Design Tour Belfast in September 2009 in Belfast, 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.

(Photo by FRONT)

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Great day at #FOWD Belfast. Inspiring, thought-provoking, controversial. Quality talks from @malarkey @standardistas @drewm @morganmck
— Greg Wallace Design (@GregWallace) September 2, 2009
Live coding in front of a hundred odd people is definitely hard core, do not envy @drewm - he's doing a grand job!
— Keir Whitaker (@keirwhitaker) September 2, 2009
A round of applause from the audience for @drewm's live coding at FOWA Tour Belfast. Impressive stuff! Not an easy thing to do at all.
— Greg Annandale (@greg_a) September 2, 2009
@drewm the words " while that's rebooting ..." are not ones you want comng out of your mouth live on stage.
— David Braziel (@Braziel) September 2, 2009
Next up is the Microformats session with @drewm highlighting the benefits of content discoverability. #fowd
— Eamonn Murphy (@vectorfunk) September 2, 2009

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