Site Templates

[Eweni]

I am building a website using AEM Sites, i am not able to find a good list of templates i can download and use. Please can anyone help me with some available templates?
Also how can i style the website without themes?

As a first time AEM Sites user, are there helpful links or videos that can help?

[SantoshSai]

Hi @Eweni ,

There is no ready to use templates in AEM, those are either OOTB or customized one. To customize/build your template you can either copy from existing one and modify them according to your need visit below links for more details. There are 2 types of templates in AEM

1. Static Template
2. Editable Templates

There are plenty of videos on YouTube which depicts how to create templates eg. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=create+aem+template

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Santosh

[Jagadeesh_Prakash · Accepted solution]

@Eweni 

Adobe have some list of default templates and also you can create any new one if needed

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-64/developing/platform/templates/template...

Example Site:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/getting-started-wknd-tutorial-devel...

And also you can refer to Sample content / templates provided with the AEM

[Manu_Mathew_]

@Eweni You can also check this doc. https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/getting-started-wknd-tutorial-devel...

https://github.com/adobe/aem-guides-wknd

[ankushb21155798]

There is a basic site template that you can use to build your application. Please take a look here [1] 

[1]

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/getting-started-wknd-tutorial-devel... 

[BrianKasingli]

In common practice, a new AEM website is generated using the AEM Project Archetype. https://github.com/adobe/aem-project-archetype

In the example editable template template. That's right, a template that you can make templates with. After building your newly project via AEM Project Archetype, you will find yourself a full width template under /libs/wcm/core/content/sites/templates.html/conf, for practice, try creating new templates in this section from the UI, and this does not require any coding at all. You can pre-set components or even have components statically configured, so all pages that is created with that template see's the same content. 

AEM Geeks from youtube have a series of videos on this topic.

1. Editable template #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPECjYOZbUk&t=1s
2. Editable template #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4B1wWCiRgY
3. Editable template #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCydzMfxE_M
4. Editable template #4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpdxjEMLaA