HTML5 Boilerplate is a really impressive attempt to consolidate all best practices into one template. The comments alone are one of the best sources of document

HTML5 Boilerplate is a really impressive attempt to consolidate all best practices into one template. The comments alone are one of the best sources of documentation for front-end development. Now the choice is selectively building up your own template for projects, or starting with HTML5 Boilerplate and just keeping parts that are needed. My strategy has been to start with the boilerplate since lots of commonly forgotten "small" details are included by default.