I always keep a bank of snippets and starter files that I can quickly and easily refer back to and use as reference. Actually I have a database of snippets/starters that is nearing around 150 modular or reusable pieces of code stored in a great piece of software called Snippets.
Most people probably utilize the pre-made templates provided by Dreamweaver but what if I am on a machine that doesn’t have Dreamweaver? Anyway, cutting to the chase, the following are all of the basic HTML Starters that I like to have close by just in case.
HTML 4.01 Transitional
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="description" content="Page Description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Keywords" /> <meta name="Author" content="Chad M. Ostroff, chad.ostroff@mac.com" /> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <p>Page Content Goes Here</p> </body> </html>
HTML 4.01 Strict
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="Page Description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Keywords" /> <meta name="Author" content="Chad M. Ostroff, chad.ostroff@mac.com" /> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <p>Page Content Goes Here</p> </body> </html>
