We’re using a few microformats on the zinedistro site. Just some of the elemental ones, but we have plans for some of the compound ones, too.
In use already are:
- rel-home; both in the head on a link element and on hrefs that point to the site root
- rel-tag; on any tag link that goes to a page that lists zines also tagged that same thing
- rel-bookmark; on any href that points to a zines archive page (kind of like a permalink on a blog)
We have plans for:
- hCard when we add a contact us page, also on the misc places that already have our support email address
- hReview on the five star rating system for zines
- hReview for zine reviews when we add them
- hAtom for syndicating the site
- rel-previous and rel-next in the head on zine and full text pages pointing to the previous and next zine, also on any page that displays a list of something (zines, authors, dates) and is paginated
If you don’t know any thing about microformats and you make websites in any way, you should really look into them. MicroFormats are The Next Big Thing™. Seriously though, microformats are very cool. They allow you to add more semantic meaning to your markup without using some goofy format (RDF, I’m looking your way…). That way they are both human and machine readable.
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