Paul Irish started the idea of an HTML5 Boilerplate, a template to start the basic web application with the common features, and addressed problems, of HTML5 and CSS3.
Behold Open Source Power: “my” base CSS for next project, is v 2.0, with 209 well-reviewed commits from 49 practitioners.
There’s a dream team of coders and well-tested code I couldn’t imagine assembling in real life.
Now, there’s a web site that will generate and optionally customize the base templates for you: http://www.initializr.com/