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Create a baseline document with HTML5

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Create a baseline document with HTML5

- [Voiceover] At the core of every website and every web document is the content itself. To design a great website, you have to have the content structure in place, and that's where the design in the browser process starts. It's important to point out here that you don't need the final content for this, just some representative content that looks and behaves like the final content. With the layout drafts, the container and module maps, and some representative content, we can start marking up index.html. How exactly you go about doing this is about personal preference and habit, but my experience is it's best to start at the top and work your way down. Personally, I like to mark up the containers along with the content as I move my way down. This makes it easier to remember to add comments at every closing tag, and it also makes it easier to preserve proper indentation in the document, so that visual hierarchy and structure is maintained. For this project, I've already written a bunch…

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