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What about an ID for main page elements and things that never will change like #header or #footer or #sidebar?

Ideally for those you would use the html5 header, footer, and aside tags, respectively. You can use the html5 Javascript shim to enable support for those tags in IE.

sidebar is not equal aside, and you can have several headers footers on one page.

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