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I find myself doing things over an

Answer 1

At work we use Code Igniter as a PHP framework for our web applications and have created a new project template which does exactly that: Simple directory structure, Blueprint CSS, jQuery and the Code Igniter application folder, filled with a couple of commonly used libraries (Authentication, some speciales models for often used databases...).

The main motto here is: It's always easier to delete components than to add them. So fill your template up.

(And when I'm starting a new project in my spare time I sorely miss that template...)