Publishing & Hosting
Starter templates
The neighborhood layouts that seed a new site with pages arranged in a useful 3D shape.
Open in the interactive manual →The interactive version has full-text search, a table of contents, and light/dark themes.
When you create a site from Settings ▸ Sites, you start from a template, a small set of pages arranged in a 3D layout. They're starting points, not straitjackets; rearrange freely.
| Template | What it builds |
|---|---|
| Blank | An empty scene with one home page. |
| Hello World | The one-minute starter: a spinning globe made of the word "hello" plus a greeting. More → |
| Gallery | A home page plus six portfolio cards arranged in a ring, ideal for showing work. |
| Plaza | A home page with four pages at the compass points (about, services, and so on). |
| Garden | Five organic clusters spread out, suited to longform or journal-style sites. |
| Arcade | Five attractions in a row: walk left to right through them. |
The layout picker lives in Settings now
File ▸ New no longer offers the neighborhood layouts: it opens on Websites, a card grid led by Blank canvas and followed by the template gallery (Hello World and the other starters live there now), while those starter scenes get refined. The full list above is still there when you create a site under Settings ▸ Sites.
Templates improve over time
Templates store the pages; the 3D scenery around them (district plates, ambient props) is generated when the scene loads. That means visual upgrades to the templates can improve your existing sites without you re-publishing.
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