HTML5 is the future of the web, but building the future is hard work and so it’s always great to get a bit of help with that. Some of that help comes in the form of HTML5 Boilerplate from the minds of Paul Irish and Divya Mani, who have teamed up to bring us “the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site”. Boilerplate is basically a bunch of files, the exact kinds of files you would create as you start working on a new website, except that these already contain the basic starting code and include all the best practices baked in. Things like reset styles, pngfix, HTML5 markup and more. I went over most of it line by line and after a few adjustments based on my own personal preferences I’m going to start using it as the base for all websites I work on. Read more »