If you are going to be creating websites, you might as well be using HTML5 now. There is no point of using the older, antiquated, and sometimes verbose HTML 4 markup. A case in point, take a look at the HTML4 header markup below. It’s long, cryptic and hard to remember.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Compare that to the HTML 5 header markup below which is much, much simpler.
<!DOCTYPE html>
Let's take a look at the basic HTML5 template.
The HTML5 Basic Template
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>HTML5 Template</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> </body> </html>
This template is perfect for creating quick websites, displaying example pages, or for testing purposes. If you want to create professional websites, then you should check out HMTL5 Boilerplate template which I highly recommend. It’s an excellent website to get you started with your HTML5 projects.