[Web4lib] Resources? -- Web Standards and Semantic Markup

Chris Gray cpgray at library.uwaterloo.ca
Wed May 2 12:07:28 EDT 2007


Another resource I would recommend is the POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML) 
home page at the microformats site.
http://microformats.org/wiki/posh

It has many good pointers to resources on semantic, standards-compliant 
markup.

Chris

Chris Gray wrote:
> I suppose a link might help, eh?  
> http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/02/42/index4a.html?tw=design
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Gray wrote:
>> Another article worth reading is Steve Champeon's "The Secret Life of 
>> Markup".  He is another co-author of the book glasshaus book I 
>> mentioned in connection with Owen Briggs.
>>
>> "The idea of presentation, and its separation from content and the 
>> rest, is perhaps the most widely misunderstood but one of the most 
>> important ideas in Web and document design."
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Andrew Darby wrote:
>>> There's oodles of information out there, but you could look at the Web
>>> Standards site, and specifically the "Learn" section:
>>>
>>> http://www.webstandards.org/learn/
>>>
>>> It's not as fleshed out as one might like, but there's a set of FAQs
>>> and numerous links under "External Resources."
>>>
>>> On 5/1/07, Jonathan Blackburn <jblackbu at mailer.fsu.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi Everybody,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am a library web developer looking for suggestions for some solid
>>>> "introductory" resources for learning about the importance AND use 
>>>> of web
>>>> standards -- and specifically "semantic markup" --  in web design.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am providing a GA here in the library w/ a list of resources to 
>>>> begin
>>>> reading related to a project he will be working on this summer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (E.G. maybe, a set of intro sources he can review over about 8-12 
>>>> hours -
>>>> along w/ some more permanent reference materials he can refer to 
>>>> over the
>>>> course of the project.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you have some nice (preferably web-based) resources you would 
>>>> like to
>>>> recommend, I would greatly appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jon :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan Blackburn
>>>>
>>>> Web Development Librarian
>>>>
>>>> Florida State University Libraries
>>>>
>>>> AIM/E-mail: jblackbu at mailer.fsu.edu
>>>>
>>>> Phone: 850.645.6986
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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