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title: Creating pages using the portal engine
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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).

The Kentico Portal engine allows you to create dynamic web pages without any programming knowledge. With the Portal engine, you don't need to use Visual Studio or any other web development tool. Instead, you create reusable [page templates](https://docs.kentico.com/k81tutorial/creating-pages-using-the-portal-engine/page-templates.md) directly in your web browser.

What you need to use the Kentico Portal engine:

- basic knowledge of HTML and CSS to be able to create page layouts
- a [supported web browser](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/installation/server-and-hosting-requirements.md)

Start by learning what [Page templates](https://docs.kentico.com/k81tutorial/creating-pages-using-the-portal-engine/page-templates.md) are and how you can use them.