Recently I rewrote my resume (http://resume.impendulo.net) with microformats: hCard, hResume (which uses hCalendar as well) and html5.

There were a few semantic issues, like hCalendar not allowing the usage of the html5 time element. But in the end it came out pretty well.

One thing that’s easy to miss from the microformats wiki is that, if I understand correctly, you should declare which microformat profile you use, like or in a meta tag.

One thing that I found useful is checking your embedded metadata with Google’s rich snippet tool (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets).

Anyway, I might have a look at microdata or RDFa with html some time soon. Thanks for the article

<div vocab=”http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#” typeof=”Person”>
<p>Name: <span property=”name”>Marco Lisci</span></p>
<p>Title: <span property=”title”>Web Developer</span></p>
</div>

Have you ever seen those small grey descriptions in Google search results below the title? If you’re curious on how to get them, then the answer is microformats. With the word microformats we refer to a way to add invisible information in an HTML…