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title: Tutorial - Developing websites with Kentico 8.1
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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).

> **Info:** View the Tutorial for the latest Kentico version

Welcome to the Kentico Tutorial!

This section of the documentation explains the basics of editing content in Kentico, shows you how to create web pages, and walks you through the development of a simple website.

We recommend that you read the tutorial from the [beginning](https://docs.kentico.com/k81tutorial/using-the-kentico-interface.md) to the end, to make sure you don't miss any step in the development process.

## Before you begin

Before you dive into the tutorial, you must ensure that you have Kentico [installed on your local machine](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/installation/installing-kentico-custom-installation.md), or [on a remote server](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/installation/deploying-kentico-to-a-live-server.md), including the sample **Corporate site**.

If you already have Kentico installed, but don't know how to install the sample Corporate site, see [Installing new sites](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/installing-new-sites.md), then [Creating new sites from templates](https://docs.kentico.com/k81/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/installing-new-sites/creating-new-sites-from-templates.md).

## Start learning Kentico

After you've installed Kentico, [go to the first page](https://docs.kentico.com/k81tutorial/using-the-kentico-interface.md) of the tutorial and start learning.