Tantek Çelik workshop: Microformats
As part of the Webstock Autumn series, Tantek Çelik will be presenting workshops in Christchurch and Wellington on Microformats.
When and where
| Date | Venue | |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 9 May | Wellington - Civic suite, Wellington Town Hall | Book here |
| Tuesday 13 May | Christchurch - venue to be confirmed | Book here |
The cost for the event is $750 (GST inc) and this includes morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch. And if you register for the Wellington or Christchurch workshops, entry to the Webstock Minis held in Wellington on 22 April or Christchurch on 13 April is included as part of this price. And don't worry Auckland, we've got a Webstock Mini planned for June!
About Tantek
Tantek Çelik is dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web. Tantek is one of the founders of both the nascent microformats.org open standards community and the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, and invited expert to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets working group.
Tantek has played a key role in the development and popularization of practical social network portability technologies such as the hCard and XFN microformats. In 2003, Tantek collaborated with Eric Meyer and Matt Mullenweg in the invention of the XHTML Friends Network (XFN), which has since become the most popular decentralized social relationship format in the history of the Web. In 2004 Tantek proposed hCard for representing people and organizations, which has since similarly become the most popular user profile format on the Web. During his years as Technorati's Chief Technologist, Tantek played an active role in refining and evangelizing hCard, bringing it from a wiki proposal to one that's endorsed and supported by individuals, numerous small organizations, major companies ranging from AOL to Yahoo, and implemented for over a hundred million user identities and business listings on the Web.
Previously Tantek was a veteran representative to the W3C for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, the first web browser to bring widespread standards compliant HTML4 + CSS1 + PNG1 support to millions of users. Tantek has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user-centered design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.
Microformats
This workshop will cover just about everything to do with microformats. That's the beauty of such a simple technology: it only takes a single day to become an expert. This won't be a passive presentation: you will learn not just the theory of microformats; you'll also get down and dirty with some hands-on markup.
What are microformats? Get a good grounding in the kind of problems microformats are designed to solve... and find out where the limits of microformats are (by design).
Laying the foundations for microformats: it's important to understand the value of meaningful markup before implementing microformats. This will get you thinking about how you should be marking up your content using plain ol' semantic HTML before adding any microformat magic.
Incremental building blocks: from simple elemental microformats that consist of nothing more than adding an attribute, right up to compound microformats that can be mashed up together, you'll meet them all.
Smell the microformats. Just as you can develop a nose for wine tasting, you can also develop a sense for spotting which content is just crying out to be microformatted. Once you've learned to see these patterns, you'll never surf the web the same way again.
Add microformats to your sites. Using a combination of exercises, this workshop will teach you to how to spice up your content with semantic goodness. If you're up to the challenge, you'll have added microformats to your site by the end of the day.
