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title: Getting started with Kentico
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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.
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> - [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).

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to **convert a simple website into Kentico**.

![The MEDIO clinic sample website](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11tutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/Medio_clinic_tutorial.png "The MEDIO clinic sample website")

The Kentico 11 Tutorial is split into two paths based on the development models you can use to build websites in Kentico.

In the **Portal Engine path**, we will show you how to put HTML and CSS code into Kentico, how to convert parts of the code to dynamic components, and how to build website pages and templates. The **MVC path** explains what the MVC development in Kentico looks like. We will show you how to prepare the Kentico environment for MVC development, how to create pages that hold data, and how to style the data with CSS and display it on the live site using the MVC design pattern.

Feel free to pick the path you are most interested in (or go through both of them so you can decide which model better suits your project needs). To help you decide, you will learn about the basic differences between the development models in one of the following steps. You can also download the HTML and CSS code of the simple website you are going to convert to Kentico here: **[TutorialWebsite.zip](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11tutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/TutorialWebsite.zip)**.

Ready? Learn about the Kentico administration interface in the next step of the tutorial.

| [Continue](https://docs.kentico.com/k11tutorial/using-the-kentico-interface.md) |
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