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:

Benny Powers

URL

Note

Writes Free software at Red Hat. Web components and design systems.

Given (often first) name

  • Benny

Family (often last) name

  • Powers

City/town/village

  • Jerusalem, Israel

Organization

  • Red Hat

Job title

  • web developer

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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