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Tips and Tricks: Creating a "real" blank site

10 May 2011, 3 comments
In my presentation: "Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine" at the Kentico Connection I showed you how to create a really blank site. In this tip I will show you the steps I presented.

Step 1: In Site Manager / Sites, start the "New site wizard"

new_site_wizard.png

Step 2: Choose "Use web site template" and select the "Blank Site" template

web_site_template.png

Step 3: Fill in the sites display, code and domain name settings

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Step 4: Adjust the global objects selection like follows:
  • Administration > Users > Deselect "Andrew Jones"
  • Development > Content categories > Select "None"
  • Development > CSS stylesheets > Select "None"
  • Development > Document types > Select only the relevant ones (e.g. Page, News etc.)
  • Development > Page templates > Select "None" (I prefer to create my templates from scratch)
  • Development > Web part containers > Select "None"
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And that's it! Of course feel free to go in and tweak the object selection to your needs.

Note: Imported objects (marked with *) cannot be removed using the "New site wizard". If you want to remove these imported objects then you will have to delete the objects within Kentico CMS.
Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Template, Site
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Jeroen
Thanks for your message Scott. I guess that would apply if you don't install it based on a template? Cheers!
11/29/2011 10:55:25 AM
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Scott
In version 6, at least, you want to keep the Blank master page template or step 5 where it asks you to choose a master page won't work properly.
11/10/2011 10:20:32 PM
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Mike
For this reason alone I keep a zip with a 'real' empty site template. Just Root, Folder, Page, File, Content Publishing, Default workflow, and maybe 1 or 2 other things.
7/8/2011 12:37:26 PM
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