Ardamis.com is HTML5

It required only a few small changes to move from XHTML 1.0 Strict to HTML5, but as of today, ardamis.com is being served as valid HTML5. For some time, I’ve been waiting for HTML5 to get closer to becoming a W3C recommendation, and for better support from user agents, but I’ve gotten caught up with other improvements to the site and decided to make the transition now.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be updating the HTML to incorporate some of the new tags. I’m pretty excited about replacing divs with new semantic elements like <header>, <article>, and <footer>.

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I want this Microsoft LifeCam Cinema webcam

I want the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema webcam.

One million inbound links

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting over one million inbound links to pages on ardamis.com.

How to compress .php, .css and .js files without mod_gzip or mod_deflate

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I want this CSS IS AWESOME coffee mug

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The Compete.com tracking code is not for traffic

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Easily batch rename digital images with Advanced Renamer

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