I have been doing 10 templates every week for a month. And I saved myself a lot of time by getting a CSS template done right the first time. I know that most experienced html/css coders will be saying “well of course!” to this one but a lot of newcomers doesn’t get this done right. Getting your body, container, p, h1, a etc. styles down will save you a bunch of time.

When you make your template, remember this:
When you’re setting up your template be sure to not at things that you’ll need to delete every time. I for one use a #sidebar divs in most of my layouts so I have that in my template too. But if you don’t then make sure not to put it in there. Also a lot of inexperienced coders don’t remember to put there author data in there. I know that since we did that in our designs we started getting from people looking in the code and finding our data. It’s also an easy way to see if somebody stole your design, since most of them are too lazy to even edit that out.

Mine would look something like this:
/*
URI: http://www.itswebdev.com
Author: Thomas Fjordside - It’sWebDev
Author URI: http://www.itswebdev.com
*/