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title: Add a website channel
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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).

The next few steps in the Kickstart series will cover the process of displaying your reusable content on a website page. Before we can create pages, we need a [website channel](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/website-channel-management.md) to store them. One website channel corresponds to one site, and stores pages and their references to reusable items.

> **Tip:** **Channels and reusable content**
>
> Xperience by Kentico supports multiple channels in one Xperience instance. There are currently three types of channels to choose from: [Website](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/website-channel-management.md), [Headless](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/headless-channel-management.md) and [Email](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/digital-marketing-setup/email-channel-management.md). You can find more details in their respective documentation pages.
>
> As you saw in the [previous step](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/developer-kickstart/create-a-reusable-content-type.md), reusable items in the [Content hub](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/content-hub.md) exist independently of channels. Editors can reference this reusable content from multiple channels at once, for example, a website and a headless channel that feeds a mobile application.

## Define the channel in the admin UI

To start, sign in to your Xperience administration and navigate to **Configuration → Channel Management**.

Then create a new channel with the following properties:

- **Channel name:** Kickstart pages
- **Identifiers → Pre-fill code name automatically:** True (Enabled)
- **Channel type:** Website
- **Channel size:** Standard channel
- **Website domain:** localhost
- **Primary language:**  English

![screenshot of channel creation dialog](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/modules/add-a-website-channel/kickstart-pages-channel-create.png "screenshot of channel creation dialog")

> **Tip:** **Website domain configuration**
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> If you need more specialized domain configurations for your future projects, check out our [documentation page](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/website-channel-management.md#website-channels-in-private-cloud-environments) about website channel management for more info.

## Check your progress

After saving the channel, when you navigate to the dashboard, you will see your **Kickstart pages** channel under the **Channels** category in the dashboard. Additionally, a new **Channels** item appears on top of the left menu.

🎬 [Screen recording of the admin UI dashboard, containing the Kickstart pages channel](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/modules/add-a-website-channel/kickstart-pages-channel-dashboard.webm)