HTML5 Boilerplate Makes For Quick Start
I am a big fan of templates that gives me just a good-enough start to be helpful, yet little enough to be over the top. When moving to HTML5 coding, the HTML5 Boilerplate package might offer you a good start on what you want and need for your project.
What does it offer?
The first question to ask is what the boilerplate offers you. The answer is solely speed and efficiency. By using this template as a start, I have found that it is much easier to get going with the main coding, instead of having to do the necessary preparation and base code which stays the same for most projects.
Customize Your Package
While the package comes in a standard package, it also offers a page to customize what you want to download specifically, depending on the need of a specific project.
You are able to select whether you want the conditional IE classes in there, whether to include a special handheld (mobile) stylesheet, whether to include jQuery, which HTML5 enabler script you wish to run, any server configuration file you wish to thrown in and finally whether you want a Google Analytics code.
All of these options may change in your projects, and the Boilerplate website makes it easy to customize what you need, grab it and use it.
Conclusion
Here at XLD Studios, we use the HTML5 Boilerplate currently on every new project that can be done in HTML5. Currently I feel it is the best package out there and is helpful enough and saves a good amount of time, also compared to building your own template. Since it is free to use, I’d suggest you go and play around with it!
