John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm — Microformats: More than Just Promise

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• By:jessie
• January 19, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Direc­tions North, Van­cou­ver, Feb­ru­ary 7, 2007.

• MP3 of presentation
• Pre­sen­ta­tion slides — John All­sopp (PDF, 2MB)
• Pre­sen­ta­tion slides — Dan Ceder­holm (PDF, 12MB)
• Ses­sion description
• About John Allsopp
• About Dan Cederholm

This ses­sion was orig­i­nally meant to fea­ture Tan­tek Çelik as well, but due to a last-​​minute change instead fea­tured just John All­sopp and Dan Cederholm

Ses­sion description

Micro­for­mats are much more than just a promis­ing tech­nol­ogy or pass­ing fad  —  hear these three experts cover the whys and the hows of design­ing and devel­op­ing with microformats.

Hear micro­for­mats founder and cus­to­dian Tan­tek Çelik paint on the broad can­vas, talk­ing about moti­va­tions, use cases, exam­ples, and ben­e­fits. John All­sopp, author of the forth­com­ing friends of Ed micro­for­mats book will cover a num­ber of prac­ti­cal exam­ples of quickly and cleanly adding micro­for­mats to exist­ing code. Renowned designer and devel­oper Dan Ceder­holm will look at how micro­for­mats pro­vide excel­lent scaf­fold­ing for styling with CSS.

This ses­sion will really get you up to speed with this excit­ing, quickly spread­ing technology.

About John Allsopp

John All­sopp is a founder of West­civ, an Aus­tralian web soft­ware devel­op­ment and train­ing com­pany, which pro­vides some of the best CSS resources and tuto­ri­als on the web. Westciv’s soft­ware and train­ing are used in dozens of coun­tries around the World.

The head devel­oper of the lead­ing cross plat­form CSS edi­tor, Style Mas­ter, John has writ­ten on web devel­op­ment issues for numer­ous web and print pub­li­ca­tions and was one of the ear­li­est mem­bers of the Web Stan­dards Project.

About Dan Cederholm

Dan Ceder­holm is a web designer and author liv­ing in Mass­a­chu­setts, USA. He’s the founder of Sim­pleBits, a tiny design studio.

A rec­og­nized expert in the field of standards-​​based web design, Dan has worked with Google, MTV, ESPN, Fast Com­pany, Blog­ger, Odeo, and oth­ers. He embraces flex­i­ble, adapt­able design using web standards.

Dan is the author of two best-​​selling books: Bul­let­proof Web Design (New Rid­ers) and Web Stan­dards Solu­tions (Friends of ED). Dan also runs the pop­u­lar weblog Sim­pleBits, where he writes arti­cles and com­men­tary on the web, tech­nol­ogy and life. He also plays a mean ukulele.

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