Time for action – constructing the blog

Perform the following steps to build the blog:

  1. Open the index.html file that we have created in step 6 of the previous section Time for action – creating and organizing project directories and assets. Let's start by adding the most basic HTML5 structure as follows:
    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Blog</title>
</head>
<body>
  
</body>
</html>

    Here, set DOCTYPE, which has been brought to the bare minimum form. The DOCTYPE format in HTML5 is now shorter and cleaner than the DOCTYPE format of its HTML4 counterpart. Then, we set the language of our page, which in this case is set to en (English). You may change it to your local language; find the code for your local language at ...

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