Installing HTML Boilerplate
We're going to start a fresh, so let's create a new file for this project. What I like to do when I start a project is download an HTML Boilerplate. HTML5 Boilerplate is a frontend template, created to help you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. You basically download one package, and it contains all the files you need to start a project.
Let's go to https://html5boilerplate.com/ to download the latest version of the template:
Click on Download v6.0.1
or higher.
Let's have a look at what's inside our package:
There are plenty of files in the folder. What we can see is that it contains all the essential files a website needs to work properly:
index.html
: Our home page, the page where the user will land upon going to your website- The
css
folder: A folder for all our CSS files - The
img
folder: A folder for all our images - The
js
folder: A folder for all our JS files favicon.ico
: An icon that shows up at the left corner of a tab of a browser that indicates...