Back to Basics

Firstly the best place to go to learn HTML5 is w3schools.

This link will take you there:

http://www.w3schools.com/

Has everything you need to know to get started, I spent many months at this site.

However this is the template I created to use as the base for all my HTML5 projects.

If you have written this in notepad select SAVE AS...

Change the 'Save as type' to All Files.
Make sure the encoding is UTF-8.

Once the page has Loaded the Start() function is executed. This is where you can initialize data and setup the canvas etc...