Create your first Sitefinity Template

1. Login to the backend of your website.
2. From the main menu, click to Design » Page Templates.
3. Perform procedure Creating a template using the Layout editor.
4. Click Create and go to add content.
   The template opens in content editing mode.
5. Create the layout of your template using procedure Modifying the layout.
   With the Layout widgets you can make your first template more complex and define different areas where you can add content later.
6. Click the Content button and add content to your template using the widgets.
   Add content such as images or text that is the same throughout all pages that will use the template. For more information, see Widgets.
7. When finished, click Publish.
   Your first template is ready and you can create pages based on it.
8. To assign the template to a page, perform the following:
   • To assign the template to an existing page, perform procedure Applying a template to a page.
   • To assign a template to a new page, perform procedure Creating a new page and in Step 3 » Template, select Use template » Select another template.
     The template you have created appears in the list of templates. To apply it to the page, click it.
9. Click on Create and go to add content to edit the content and layout of you page or Create and return to Pages and edit the page later.