Developing a static website or a HTML based documentation for something? Need to let your software users download the docs with the application? Want to use a common template across all the pages of your static website?

Well, this article is intended to help you with some basic but time consuming process of applying a template to an HTML based static website or and HTML based documentation. First think if you are developing a static website or documentation that has to follow the of rules given below.

• All the files must be HTML files that has the extension .html
• All the pages should share the same template without using a server side scripting language.
• Files should be arranged in a folder based hierarchy for enabling easy access.
• Whole website / documentation should be downloadable by end users for offline usage.
• When published on the internet page URLs should be search engine friendly (SEO).
• When browsing each page should contain a breadcrumb path for easy navigation.
• Page title and description should be unique for each page.
• Each page should be associated with a unique ID to make it easy to install social network plugins / widgets.
• Pages should have breadcrumbs automatically generated.