diff --git a/templates/html.template b/templates/html.template
index 1333ed77b..d8f6d5a2c 100644
--- a/templates/html.template
+++ b/templates/html.template
@@ -1 +1,20 @@
-TODO
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+><head
+  ><title
+    >$if(title-prefix)$$title-prefix$ - $endif$$title$</title
+    ><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
+     /><meta name="generator" content="pandoc"
+     /><meta name="author" content="John MacFarlane"
+     /><meta name="author" content="Anonymous"
+     /><meta name="date" content="July 17, 2006"
+     /></head
+  ><body
+  ><h1 class="title"
+    >$title$</h1
+    >
+$body$
+    </body
+  ></html
+>
+