Publishing on the IndieWeb Level 2

1. Mark up your content with microformats2

Humans can already understand the things you post on your site. By adding a few short class names to your HTML, other people’s software can understand it and use it for things like reply contexts, cross-site comments, event RSVPs, and more.

Check your homepage h-card:

Success!

This representative h-card was found on your site:

Barnaby Walters

URL

Email

Note

Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as: 🛠 building musical instruments 🎼 playing music with gurdy voice synths pure data ukulele dulcimer accordion blockflute 📖 singing shape note/sacred harp 🐧 watching wildlife 🔌 tinkering with electronics ⌨️ programming in python, occasionally js, previously php 🚀 building the indieweb ⚖ helping assess the Icelandic school system at Skólapúlsinn

Given (often first) name

  • Barnaby

Family (often last) name

  • Walters

Email address

  • mailto:barnaby@waterpigs.co.uk

Cryptographic public key

  • http://waterpigs.co.uk/118AD524.asc

See the full list of h-card properties.

Want to be able to use h-card data in your code? Check out the open-source implementations.

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