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 <p class="body">For more information, visit <a href="http://www.blender.org">blender.org</a>.</p>
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 <p class="header"><b>2.5 ALPHA 0</b></p>
-<p class="body">The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.5 Alpha 0. This release is the first official testing release of the Blender 2.5 series, and represents the culmination of many years of redesign and development work. More information about this release is available <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/">here</a>.</p>
+<p class="body">The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.5 Alpha 0. This release is the first official testing release of the Blender 2.5 series, and represents the culmination of many years of redesign and development work. <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/">More information about this release</a>.</p>
 <p class="body">What to Expect:</p>
 <p class="body">	•	Big improvements - This is our most exciting version to date, already a significant improvement in many ways over 2.49</p>
 <p class="body">	•	Missing/Incomplete Features - Although most of it is there, not all functionality from pre-2.5 versions has been restored yet. Some functionality may be re-implemented a different way.</p>
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 <p class="body">When opening Blender, you’ll see large 3D view in the center, a Toolbar on the left, a Properties area on the right and a Timeline at the bottom.</p>
 <p class="body">Orbit around in the 3D view by holding the middle mouse button and dragging. Alternatively, hold the alt key and drag the left mouse button. Additionally, hold Shift to pan the view and Ctrl to zoom.</p>
 <p class="body">Select objects using the right mouse button. With the object selected, perform actions by clicking any of the tool buttons on the left, or make changes to its properties by altering any of the setting on the right.</p>
-<p class="body">For more information on how to use Blender, watch tutorials <a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/">here</a> or read the manual <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual">here</a>.</p>
+<p class="body">For more information on how to use Blender, <a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/">watch tutorials</a> or <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual">read the manual</a>.</p>
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 <p class="header"><b>Links</b></p>
 <p class="body">Users:</p>
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 	Tutorials 			<a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/">www.blender.org/education-help/</a>	<br>
 	Manual 			<a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual">wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual</a><br>
 	User Forum 			<a href="http://www.blenderartists.org">www.blenderartists.org</a><br>
-	IRC 				#blender on irc.freenode.net<br>
+	IRC 				<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#blender">#blender on irc.freenode.net</a><br>
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 <p class="body">Developers:</p>
 <p class="body">	Development				<a href="http://www.blender.org/development/">www.blender.org/development/</a><br>
 	SVN and Bug Tracker 		<a href="http://projects.blender.org">projects.blender.org</a><br>
 	Get Involved	 			<a href="http://www.blender.org/community/get-involved/">www.blender.org/community/get-involved/</a><br>
-	IRC 				#blendercoders on irc.freenode.net</p>
+	IRC 				<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#blendercoders">#blendercoders on irc.freenode.net</a></p>
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 <p><br></p><p class="footer">Blender is open-source and free for all to use.</p>
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