This is a minimalist template for an XHTML 1.1 document. I use this as a starting point for many of my own web projects that are started from scratch.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <head> <title>[Title]</title> <!-- Meta Tags --> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="description" content="A blank XHTML 1.1 document template." /> <meta name="keywords" content="html,xhtml,template" /> <meta name="author" content="Joel Dare" /> <!-- JavaScript : Embedded --> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- // On document load document.onload = setTimeout("rollUp();", 100); // Roll the URL up function rollUp() { window.scrollTo(0, 1); } //--> </script> <!-- CSS --> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: white; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } p { margin-bottom: 10px; } --> </style> </head> <body> <p>Hello World!</p> </body> </html>