As a supporter of microformats, I want to provide you some amazingly easy ways to add them to your blog. To kick this off, I’m going to tell you how you can turn your WordPress or Blogger blogroll into a list of hCards in less than 2 minutes!
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For many of us designing fluid layouts, which are generally based in “em”s (pronounced like the letter M) you end up not really knowing how many pixels an “em” is while you are deep in the DOM tree. This is especially confusing if you increase/decrease text size with your browser.

For this reason, I have created a simple Javascript function that you can use to poll any element on your test page and figure out what size an “em” is.
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You see it in Google search results and a lot of other sites that have good search functionality. When you perform a search, your words or phrases are highlighted in the search results making it easy for you to find the most relevant content.

Today I’m going to show you a simple way to add this to your website or blog so your users can find what they need in style. I think that this kind of thing should be implemented more often for how easy it is to implement.

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