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The Beauty of Semantic Markup, Part 2: <strong>, <b>, <em>, <i>

Aug 06, 2010

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So, I had planned to focus the second installment of this series on markup for images with captions. The topic was a request from my friend Ian and his birthday was coming up. However, his birthday has passed, and I'm just now writing. Plus, I've been thinking a lot lately about something more fundamental: bold and italicized text.

This may seem a trivial thing to be consuming my "markup mind," but after Tantek Çelik's HTML5 presentation, it's been bugging me. And what specifically has been bugging me is the recommendation of <b> and <i> in HTML5.

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Voices That Matter Presentation & Interview

Jul 20, 2010

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Last month, I was honored to speak at the Voices That Matter Web Design conference in San Francisco.

My "Practical Microformats" presentation went well, although talking about microformats in less than 30 minutes (plus leaving time for questions) was quite a challenge. You can check out my slide deck on Slideshare, if you'd like a taste of what I covered:

The deck includes tons of links to resources, as well as some DIY demos you can try to see the power of microformats. For the resources alone, the deck is worth taking a look at.

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The Beauty of Semantic Markup, Part 1: Quotes & Citations

Jul 15, 2010

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As I mentioned in my introduction, this series is going to take a close look at the fundamentals of semantic markup. In this first installment, I'm focusing on quotes and citations.

Before we get started, if you'd like to know more about semantic markup — what it is, why you should develop your sites with it — check out my article, Meaningful Markup: POSH and Beyond.

Now, let's get to it!

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Emily Lewis
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I'm a web designer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA, and I'm a "standardista."

I specialize in hand-coding semantic (X)HTML and CSS, designing accessible web sites, and writing and optimizing web content.

A Blog Not Limited is my personal blog where I pontificate about web design, web standards, semantics and whatever else strikes my fancy.

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