2008/7/17 Lisa Goodlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it appropriate to place the hcard on every page in the footer, or should > I only do so once? If I should only offer the hcard download once, should I > still markup the information using microformats?
--- i personally think that you should add it to every instance where there is data to be marked-up. Visitors to your site might come from search engine results and therefore not visit your contact page, but with an hCard on every page they would still get the semantic mark-up benefit. > The reason I ask is because at > http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-with-problems > some of the problem pages listed say that hcard is used on every page or > that they are hidden. --- that is a list of hCards with problems. The term "every page" only appears twice, and both times it is in connection with other issues, such as positioning off screen or not displaying the data with CSS. It is best to keep the contact information visible. If YOU can see the data, then errors will be corrected quicker than if the data is hidden away and no one sees it. As i read over the wiki page, the term "suboptimal" caught my attention. These are people who are trying to add semantic mark-up, and while not 100% valid we label them as "suboptimal". This is not very inviting to new members. Can someone think of a better term, possibly something like "incomplete" or "needs improvement" or "missing properties". We should encourage improvement rather than berating failure. Does anyone have an idea of how to improve this term? -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss