I’ve rounded up some HTML5 site starter templates to help you get up and running with a project quickly.
Bare Bones HTML5 Markup
Just the very basic HTML5 markup structure to get you started with a simple HTML5 page.
The HTML5 Bones Template
Ian Devlin has provided a nice little template that’s a bit more well rounded, including:
- a richly commented template with helpful notes about key HTML5 elements
- Google analytics code included
- Normalize.css for cross-browser compatibility
- A very basic style sheet with only a few fundamental styles
- the HTML5 Shiv for IE 8 support
Get the HTML5 Bones Template on Github
The HTML5 Boilerplate
Probably the most well respected starter template on the planet, and for good reason. Includes more touches, including:
- The Modernizr script for the HTML5 shiv PLUS robust browser feature detection
- jQuery
- and more
Visit the HTML5 Boilerplate Homepage
Initializr
Initializr goes further to help you custom configure a set of starter files. You can choose to include or exclude:
- a basic mobile-first responsive CSS template
- CSS from Twitter Bootstrap
- respond.js to enable support for media queries in IE 8
- jQuery
- Modernizr
- Apple Touch Icons
- etc.
Data Enhanced 