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title: Walkthrough - Creating a new site 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).

This part of the tutorial guides you through the creation of a simple website. You will learn how to:

- Define site structure and design
- Create your own page templates and pages

The tutorial uses a static website template that is similar to what a developer gets from a graphic designer.

> **Info:** **[Click to download the sample web template](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82tutorial/walkthrough-creating-a-new-site-using-the-portal-engine/SampleWebTemplate.zip)**
>
> The template consists of the _home.htm_ file, a styles folder and an _app\_themes_ folder with images.

![The sample web template.](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82tutorial/walkthrough-creating-a-new-site-using-the-portal-engine/Sample_Template.png "The sample web template.")