Tag Archives: html5

Microdata for WordPress: An SEO Plug-in to Help You Take Advantage of Schema.org

Microdata for WordPress is a free plug-in developed by Optimum7… This plug-in adds a button on the TinyMCE Editor that helps you generate valid Microdata Code within your WordPress posts and pages. You do not have to know coding to use this plug-in, you can download this plug-in toward the end of this post.

What is Microdata?

In short, Microdata allows web-masters to create “custom” elements and give them attributes / meanings.

For instance, if you were coding a name into html, you might code something like this:

<code>

<div><h1>John Smith</h1></div>

</code>

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MicroData; A WordPress Plugin for HTML5 Microdata

On June 2nd 2011, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo announced and started schema.org; “a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and gain insight into how to improve their sites’ search results.” (Techcrunch) They achieve this through using “Microdata”.  So…

WHAT IS MICRODATA?

There are a lot of geeky definitions for “Microdata” and the average person will not understand what it is. If you want a more advanced description with code samples, you can see it here. We want to give a more basic definition.

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How to Switch From Joomla to WordPress

Situation Analysis

Originally our website was developed using the content management system, Joomla. Joomla is very powerful. It accommodates almost any layout. The problem with Joomla is that it wasn’t built with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and all its intricacies in mind. In addition, customizing the functionality of a website running on Joomla can be very challenging. There are few resources  regarding how to modify Joomla’s system files. There are even fewer Joomla developers to approach for help. Unfortunately this CMS (Content Management System) has not experienced the wide adoption rate of WordPress.

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iPad Friendly Web Design

The recent release of the highly anticipated iPad may just turn web design on its head. Popular technologies used on many of today’s most visited websites simply aren’t supported by the iPad. At first blush, many may think:  “so what?” After all, the iPad is really the first generation of usable tablet design.  How big of an impact can it really have?

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Pure CSS3 Spiderman Cartoon w/ jQuery and HTML5 – Look Ma, No Flash!

Update: 10/11/2011 New Animation; Making Internet Marketing Fun with Wufoo and CSS3

Dont have CSS3 animation capable browsers? Watch a video of the animation.

Inspiration

Searching YouTube for inspiration I stumbled on to the intro of the classic 1967 spider-man cartoon series. While watching I realized that the animation was very basic. It was the paper doll sort of animation that lends itself perfectly to css3. Hmmm… “I could something like that with a little css3″, I thought.

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