About Site Templates

A site template contains all the pieces that users need to start creating a website, including a site with sample pages and content, a theme with styling, navigation, assets such as images, and associated components.

Oracle Content Management provides a number of site templates for use in creating sites. These site templates are typically installed by your administrator when the service is initialized. See Configure Sites Settings in Administering Oracle Content Management.

Whenever you create a new site, you must select a site template. Templates combine themes with sites and components to drive a function or solution, such as a partner portal or a marketing campaign.

For a list of out-of-the-box site templates, see Understand Site Templates.

While both developers and users can create new site templates and modify and replace existing site templates, one of the main tasks for developers is to design new site templates. This process basically consists of these steps.

Create a new site template by copying an existing site template, such as the JET Starter Template. This also gets you the theme associated with the site template.

For example:
```
cec create-template My_JET_Template -f JETStarterTemplate
```
Export the site template in a .zip file to your development environment.
Open the files in the site template package and make your changes.
Create a revised site template package in a .zip file.
Use the Oracle Content Management interface to import the new site template to your instance.
Share the site template so others can use it.

An alternative is to use the Oracle Content Management interface to modify the site template by adding and modifying page layouts and assets, expand the site structure, add components to site pages, and add seed content you want to appear in any sites that use the theme in this site template.