diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html
index a8cfde0..0e27669 100644
--- a/templates/base.html
+++ b/templates/base.html
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
-  {% include "includes/head.html" ignore missing -%}
-  <body>
-    {% include "includes/nav.html" ignore missing -%}
-    <div class="container">
-    {% block custom %}{%- endblock -%}
-    {% block content %}{%- endblock -%}
-    </div>
-    {% include "includes/footer.html" ignore missing -%}
-  </body>
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+{% include "includes/head.html" ignore missing -%}
+<body>
+  {% include "includes/nav.html" ignore missing -%}
+  <div class="container">
+  {% block custom %}{%- endblock -%}
+  {% block content %}{%- endblock -%}
+  </div>
+  {% include "includes/footer.html" ignore missing -%}
+</body>
 </html>
diff --git a/templates/includes/head.html b/templates/includes/head.html
index 0f71204..44b4f9a 100644
--- a/templates/includes/head.html
+++ b/templates/includes/head.html
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <head>
+  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
   <meta name="description" content="{{ config.description }}" />
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
