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Object Adjective Redesign

Jeremy Anderson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:15:30 +0000

We’re extremely excited to announce our newly redesigned website. It’s been in the works for quite some time, but ended up getting tabled time and again, in order to serve our clients. Well, we finally tied up the remaining loose ends and we’re thrilled to welcome you.

I promise, I will post a more detailed write up on the specific highlights, design and functional, in the new design, but for now, let me just touch on some of the key differences. First off, updating the site (which had a code base at least 3 years old) was a great opportunity to take advantage of all of the wonderful advancements with HTML5 and CSS. So one of the biggest enhancements with the new site, from a front end engineering standpoint, is the upgrade to HTML5. While the HTML5 specifications are still in the works, support is rapidly growing and the benefits can be profound.

In addition to the technical enhancements to the website, we also made some strategic design changes to the presentation and display of content on the website. This is probably most notable with our blog. We really wanted to bring our company blog up a notch, are publish more compelling content. With this in mind, we wanted to visually pull the blog out from the other content pages, but still have it feel fully integrated with the rest of the site.

We did this on two levels. On the blog landing page, we removed the branding from the header and dedicated the entire layout to blog articles. The second level is the article pages themselves. For the article pages, we really wanted to draw all the attention to the content of the article, without the distraction of complimentary material. So, we removed everything else, centered the article and provided a simple area for comments and categories underneath.

We welcome you thoughts.

Microformats DevCamp

Jeremy Anderson — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:18:37 +0000

This is a fantastic opportunity to come out and mingle with other microformatters, learn what it’s all about and share your ideas.

When and Where

Microformats DevCamp
July 25, 12:00pm – 5pm

Automattic
Pier 38, The Embarcadero between Brannan and Townsend
San Francisco, CA 94107

ufbday4 Recap

Jeremy Anderson — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:15:58 +0000

First and foremost, thanks to everyone who made it out to the Microformats 4 Year Birthday Bash, in San Francisco. It was a huge success and it was great to see you all, new faces and old. And a really big thanks to the other sponsors of the event, Ribbit and Spinn3r.

Microformats 4 year Anniversary

Jeremy Anderson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:49:28 +0000

Celebrate the 4th birthday of microformats.org!

Come out and join us in celebrating 4 years of doing it with class. This evening, Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:00pm is the Microformats.org fourth birthday bash. In honor of the great achievements the organization and its voluntary community of contributing developers have made, there will be a party at B Restaurant and Bar in San Francisco. If you love portable data and semantic markup, we’d love to see you there.

To help out with or attend the party, please add your name and RSVP.

When and Where

microformats.org 4th birthday party!
2009-06-26 at 19:00 to 2009-06-26 at 22:00

B Restaruant and Bar
720 Howard Street, Yerba Buena Upper Terrace
San Francisco, CA 94103