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title: Creating page templates
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** This page is a part of a tutorial, which you should follow sequentially, from the beginning to the end. [Go to the first page: Getting started with Kentico](https://docs.kentico.com/k10tutorial/getting-started-with-kentico.md).

After creating the **Home** page, imagine that you would like to create **more pages that look exactly the same**, only with different text. For this purpose, you can turn the Home page into a **page template**, which you will be able to reuse for creating other pages.

Templates define the basic structure and components of pages **without the content** added by editors (i.e., content that can be added in the **Pages** application on the **Page** or **Form** tab).

To create a page template out of an existing page:

1. In the **Pages** application while in **Edit** mode, select the **Home** page.
2. Open the **Properties -> Template** tab.

   ![Opening the Template tab in the Pages application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/select_template.png "Opening the Template tab in the Pages application")
3. Click **Save as new template**.

   ![Saving a new page template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/click_save_as_new_template.png "Saving a new page template")
4. Fill in the following values: 

   - **Template display name**: MEDIO clinic - Home
   - **Template category**: Home pages

     - Normally, you would create a new template category for the Medio clinic. We skipped this step in this tutorial.
   - **Assign to the current page**: Yes (selected)

     ![Filling in the details of the new page template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/save_as_new_page_template.png "Filling in the details of the new page template")
5. Click **Save & Close**.
6. Click **Save** on the **Template** tab.

The system creates a page template with the design of the Home page. This means that the page template contains two web part zones and two **Editable text** web parts. The text entered into the web parts on the **Page** tab **is not saved** in the template.

## Creating pages using saved templates

To create new pages using the previously saved page template:

1. In the **Pages** application while in **Edit** mode, select the root page.
2. Click the **New (+)** icon above the content tree to create a new page.

   ![Creating a new page in the Pages application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/click_new_site.png "Creating a new page in the Pages application")
3. Select the **Page (menu item)** page type.
4. Type _Medical centers_ as the **Page name**.
5. Select the **Use existing page template** option.
6. Find and select the **MEDIO clinic - Home** page template (under the **Home pages** category).

   ![Selecting an existing page template for a new page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/new_medical_centers_page.png "Selecting an existing page template for a new page")
7. Click **Save**.

The system creates the new page with the web part zones and web parts defined by the page template.

![Design tab of the new page using the shared page template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/medical_centers_page.png "Design tab of the new page using the shared page template")

If you now switch to the **Page** tab, you can add text specifically for this page.

```text title="Sample medical center text"

Medical center of the MEDIO clinic

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded, and typically cover the primary health care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays. Some clinics grow to be institutions as large as major hospitals, or become associated with a hospital or medical school, while retaining the name "clinic".

```

## View the live site

To see the website live:

1. Open the application list and click **Live site** at the bottom.

   ![Opening the live site through the application list](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/click_live_site.png "Opening the live site through the application list")

The system opens the site in a new browser tab. This is the final look of the tutorial website.

![Viewing the live appearance of the sample website](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10tutorial/creating-page-templates/medio_clinic_medical_center.png "Viewing the live appearance of the sample website")

**Previous page:** [Creating website pages](https://docs.kentico.com/k10tutorial/creating-website-pages.md) — **Next page:** [Next steps](https://docs.kentico.com/k10tutorial/next-steps.md)

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