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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

hCards

Overview

hCards are an XHTML representation of the vCard format. The format allows you to markup contact information in a certain way so that other scripts can differentiate between contact information and other web page data. This then allows applications that support hCards to obtain contact records from pages containing hCards.

You can find more information about the hCard format here:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

 

Uses

It might be hard at first to understand why hCards can be useful. Once you see them in the wild, it may become clearer.

Google

A good example of why this is useful is on Google. If your site contains an hCard for a location and Google chooses to index your hCards, the information is used in local searches and can get you more traffic. Here is an example of data that was obtained via hCards, and how it appears in a Google search:

Mobile Phones and Devices

hCard formats are recognized by some mobile devices. A list of some of them can be found here.

hCards in Squirrelcart's Contact Module

Squirrelcart formats all contact information on your contact page in valid hCard format. This includes the contact information for both your departments, and your retail stores - if the corresponding sections for them are enabled on your Contact Settings page in the control panel. This should allow any hCard compatible script or application to locate the hCards on your contact page.

 

 


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