First of all I would like to give a huge shoutout to w3schools.com!
I recommend you check it out and recommend its use as informational source for all your website development needs.
- How-To
- Template contents
- SEO
- Legal
The intended usage would be to press Ctrl+F and search for UPDATE_FOR_USE.
Adjust this text according to whatever applies for your website and preferences.
The current indentation and markup is the one I personally use, so you can differ from it.
For me, however, it retains an extremely clear organization throughout the designing process.
This startup template pack, or whatever you'd like to call it, comes with a structured, empty HTML page template. (template.html)
This same template is also provided with comments/suggestions at almost every part of the template. (template-comments.html)
There's some files with an explanation to a specific part, these are the .md files. (BASETARGET, LANGUAGES and this one, README)
Other than that, there's a folder structure (./css/ and ./img/) basic pages, with only the correct navigation links (index.html, news.html, contact.html and about.html) and a css file with the bare minimum. (./css/default.css)
Lastly, there's a robots.txt, about which you'll read more at the SEO part.
sitemap: You can find a guide to sitemapping here.
minification: Apply minification to all CSS & JS files, which is easy with this tool.
robots.txt One has been included, but the current file is set to allow all web robots.
Please visit this website if you wish to change the robots.txt file to your preferences.
alt attribute: Always add alt="example" to images.
meta attributes: There's some guidelines to perfecting your meta attributes, which I won't go into now.
As long as you include all of them, you're already ahead of most websites.
caching: Could write a lot here, but I'll just provide you with this tool.
image expires: Documentation on this can be found here.
Google Analytics: Register an account here and add your id in the script that's in your index.html.
No copyright whatsoever. Free to use, copy, share, edit or even steal, if that'd make you feel good.
I would really appreciate it nonetheless if below the entire page, you could add this:
<!-- Thanks DeveloPerry for providing a well-structured startup template. -->That'd be all.