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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).

Welcome to the Kentico Tutorial! Kentico 12 Tutorial is split into two paths – one for business users and the other for developers.

|                  | For Developers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | For Business users                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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| Overview         | **Developers** will learn the basics **of developing Kentico websites** while **converting a simple website into Kentico.**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | **Business users** will learn how to **manage** the content **of a Kentico website** built with the MVC development model.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Tutorial content | The development tutorial is further divided into two paths.<br>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.<br>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, how to enable the page builder feature to dynamically modify page content, and how to style the content with CSS and display it on the live site using the MVC design pattern.<br>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's needs). | **As an editor**, you will learn to **edit** the **content of pages**, **work with images**, and **add them to pages as attachments**. You will learn what the **page builder** is and how it can help you to create **effective high-traffic pages** for scenarios where you need to often adjust the content of the page as well as its layout to achieve your marketing goals.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Tutorial website | ![Medio clinic sample site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sptutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/Medio_clinic_tutorial.png "Medio clinic sample site")                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | ![Dancing Goat sample site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sptutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/K12DancingGoatMVCBusinessTutorial.png "Dancing Goat sample site")                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Course resources | 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: [TutorialWebsite.zip](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sptutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/TutorialWebsite.zip).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | You will work on the Kentico Dancing Goat MVC website hosted on Kentico servers. Before you dive in, request a [hosted trial of Kentico](https://www.kentico.com/download-demo/hosted-trial).<br>After you **submit your name** and **business email**, we will start your website and send you a notification with your username and password.<br>You can also download all the resources you will need in the MVC Business tutorial: [KenticoMVC-BusinessTutorial.zip](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k12sptutorial/getting-started-with-kentico/KenticoMVC-BusinessTutorial.zip). |

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

| [Continue](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sptutorial/using-the-kentico-interface.md) |
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