README.md: add badges with links. minor tweaks.

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-# The [Ecere SDK](http://ecere.org) v0.44.15
+[![GitHub version](https://badge.fury.io/gh/ecere%2Fecere-sdk.svg)](https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/releases/latest)
+[![Travis status](https://api.travis-ci.org/ecere/ecere-sdk.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ecere/ecere-sdk)
+[![Ecere docs](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-coming_soon-yellow.svg)](http://ecere.org/forums)<br>
+[![GitHub size](https://reposs.herokuapp.com/?path=ecere/ecere-sdk&style=flat)](https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/graphs/traffic)
+[![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSD%203--Clause%20(Revised)-blue.svg)](https://tldrlegal.com/license/bsd-3-clause-license-(revised))<br>
+[![Ecere web](https://img.shields.io/badge/web-ecere.org-9DA1CA.svg)](http://ecere.org)
+[![Ecere web](https://img.shields.io/badge/web-ec--lang.org-9DA1CA.svg)](http://ec-lang.org)
+[![Ecere forum](https://img.shields.io/badge/forum-ecere.org%2Fforums-9DA1CA.svg)](http://ecere.org/forums)
+[![Ecere tracker](https://img.shields.io/badge/tracker-ecere.org%2Fmantis-9DA1CA.svg)](http://ecere.org/mantis)
+[![Freenode chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/irc-%20Freenode_%23ecere-9DA1CA.svg)](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ecere)<br>
+[![Meetup group](https://img.shields.io/badge/meetup-Ottawa-88B094.svg)](http://www.meetup.com/eC-Programming-Language-Meetup)
+
+# Ecere SDK
 #### Free Open Source Software released under the New BSD license
 
 The **Ecere SDK** is a Software Development Kit including:
@@ -10,12 +22,12 @@ The **Ecere SDK** is a Software Development Kit including:
       - Management of application and library projects
       - A visual debugger
       - A Rapid Application Development form designer, based on
-        properties & methods 
+        properties & methods
 
 ![Ecere IDE Screenshot](http://ecere.com/wiki/images/0/01/IdeShotSept2011.png)
 
    * A run time library, providing a uniform API across platforms, featuring:
-      - A GUI toolkit (with a vast collection of powerful controls:  
+      - A GUI toolkit (with a vast collection of powerful controls:
         Buttons, Edit boxes, Drop/Combo boxes, Menus, Tabs,
         Tree views/Grids/List boxes, file dialogs, ...)
       - A 2D graphics API (bitmaps, fonts, international text, basic drawing)
@@ -55,7 +67,7 @@ Daily-built Ubuntu Debian packages are available from our [Ubuntu PPA](https://c
 
 To build from source, simply type 'make' ('mingw32-make' on Windows).
 
-It should build fine on Linux, on Windows with [MinGW](http://mingw.org/) or [MinGW-w64](http://mingw-w64.org/),
+It should build fine on Linux, on Windows with [MinGW](http://mingw.org) or [MinGW-w64](http://mingw-w64.org),
 on Mac OS X with Xcode command line tools installed or on FreeBSD (with gmake).
 
 To install, type 'make install' ('mingw32-make install' on Windows).
@@ -67,11 +79,12 @@ Executables can also be deployed to the Android platform using the Android NDK.
 They can also deployed to the Web using [Emscripten](http://emscripten.org). Please refer to http://ecere.org/web .
 
 ## DOCUMENTATION
-[![Tao](http://ecere.com/images/tao.png)](http://ecere.org/tao.pdf)  
+
+[![Tao](http://ecere.com/images/tao.png)](http://ecere.org/tao.pdf)
 The [Ecere Tao of Programming](http://ecere.org/tao.pdf) is a Programmer's Guide (still work in progress)
-that will teach you the foundations of eC and Ecere. You will find it under:  
+that will teach you the foundations of eC and Ecere. You will find it under:
 
-   *(Windows)*    %PROGRAMFILES%\Ecere SDK\doc\Ecere Tao of Programming [work in progress].pdf  
+   *(Windows)*    %PROGRAMFILES%\Ecere SDK\doc\Ecere Tao of Programming [work in progress].pdf
    *(Linux/Unix)* /usr/share/doc/tao.pdf
 
 Please check out the [samples](http://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/tree/master/samples) that come with the SDK.
@@ -80,7 +93,7 @@ You can see a list of the most interesting ones as well as prebuilt binaries at
 
 When installing the SDK, the samples get installed in:
 
-   *(Windows)*      %APPDATA%\Ecere SDK\Samples  
+   *(Windows)*      %APPDATA%\Ecere SDK\Samples
    *(Linux/Unix)*   /usr/share/ecere/samples/
 
 On Unix you might need to make a copy to a directory with write permissions in order to compile them.
@@ -88,12 +101,12 @@ On Unix you might need to make a copy to a directory with write permissions in o
 The Documentor is a tool under development to browse and document the APIs of
 eC modules. You can use it to browse all available classes, methods and properties
 of the Ecere runtime library. It is available from the Help menu in the IDE (F1).
-However, at the moment the tool itself is being improved, and so not much 
+However, at the moment the tool itself is being improved, and so not much
 descriptive info has been added yet.
 
 ## COMMUNITY
 
-[Git Repository](http://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/) ( git://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk.git )  
-[Support forums](http://ecere.org/forums)  
-[Bug tracker](http://ecere.org/mantis)  
-[IRC](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ecere) - **#ecere** on irc.freenode.net  
+[Git Repository](http://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk) ( git://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk.git )<br>
+[Support forums](http://ecere.org/forums)<br>
+[Bug tracker](http://ecere.org/mantis)<br>
+[IRC](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ecere) - **#ecere** on irc.freenode.net<br>