Templates & Starters

Templates & Starters: reusable project foundations including GitHub repo templates, HTML Template, and a Bootstrap starter theme. Built to help you launch faster with clean, maintainable defaults—more starters for Jekyll, WordPress, Ghost, and Tailwind coming over time.

Templates & Starters
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Kickstart your next project with a curated collection of reusable templates, boilerplates, and starter kits. This hub focuses on practical foundations you can build on quickly — whether you’re launching a website, prototyping a web app, or setting up a clean project structure for ongoing development.

You’ll find templates designed for speed, consistency, and maintainability, with an emphasis on modern front-end workflows and approachable defaults. Many of these starters pair well with my open-source libraries and tooling, allowing you to mix and match components to fit your stack and style.

Explore the Collection

  • Website Templates – Clean, responsive starting points for marketing sites and personal pages.
  • Boilerplates & Starters – Project scaffolds for common stacks and build setups.
  • Content & Documentation Templates – Reusable README files, contribution guides, and project docs.
  • UI Sections & Patterns – Drop-in components such as headers, footers, CTAs, and layout sections.

Available Templates

  • GitHub Templates: A collection of GitHub-ready templates you can use across your repositories or adapt for independent projects. Ideal for README structure, issue and pull request templates, contribution guidelines, and other repository essentials.
GitHub - brandonhimpfen/github-templates: GitHub specific templates that you may use as part of your repos or independently.
GitHub specific templates that you may use as part of your repos or independently. - brandonhimpfen/github-templates
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  • HTML Template: A professional HTML template designed to help you build fast, robust, and adaptable websites with a clean structure and production-friendly defaults.
HTML Template — Fast, Accessible, Adaptable
HTML Template is a modern, accessibility-focused HTML starter template for building fast, robust, and adaptable websites without heavy dependencies.
HTML Template
  • Bootstrap Starter Theme: A lightweight HTML and Sass starter theme for Bootstrap, providing a clean foundation for custom styling and rapid iteration.

What’s Coming Next

Over time, this section will expand with additional templates and starters for popular stacks and publishing platforms, including:

  • Bootstrap starters and theme foundations.
  • Jekyll site starters and content-ready layouts.
  • WordPress theme starters and plugin scaffolds.
  • Ghost theme starters.
  • Tailwind starters and component-friendly layouts.

If you’re looking for full-featured themes, visit the Themes section. For reusable libraries and packages, head to Code.