---
title: "Work with page designs"
slug: "work-with-page-designs"
abstract: "Overview of page designs, including details of how to create and publish them"
---
# Work with page designs

Page designs are combinations of [partial designs](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/build-pages/building-page-templates-and-branches/work-with-partial-designs.html "Work with partial designs") that determine the layout of a page’s content. Page designs consist of a header, a footer, and one or more main sections. Page designs can be assigned to a page template, making them available when creating webpages based on that template.

## Create a page design

To create a page design:

1. In the Page builder **Templates** mode, click **Page designs**.
2. Click **Create** > **Page design**.
3. In the **Create page design** dialog, enter a name for your page design and click **Create**.
4. Give your page design a name.
5. A page design is assigned to a data template to create a page template. To start working on the page design right away, click **Assign later** and keep reading.

    Alternatively, to assign the page design to the data template now, click **Assign now** and follow [these instructions](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/build-pages/building-page-templates-and-branches/assign-a-page-design-to-a-template.html "Assign a page design to a template").

6. In the left-hand pane, in the list of **Available partial designs**, click a partial design to add it to the page canvas. Partial designs for headers or footers are automatically placed at the top and the bottom of the page, while main partial designs are placed between the header and the footer.

    > [!note]
    > A page design does not require a partial design in every section. For example, you can create a page design with a header and footer, and leave the main section empty.

7. If you include several partial designs for the main section, you can reorder them in the **Selected partial designs** list by clicking :mdiDrag: and dragging the tiles in the correct order.
8. In the **Selected partial designs** list, you can also delete a partial design from your page design by clicking :mdiMinusCircleOutline:.

The new page design is available in the **Page designs** library. You can edit existing page designs from this library.

> [!note]
> Any changes made to an existing partial design are applied on all pages that use it.

## Publish a page design

To use a page design in a page, you must publish it from the **Page designs** builder.

To publish a page design:

1. In the Page builder **Templates** mode, click **Page designs**.
2. Click :mdiPencilOutline: next to the page design you want to publish.
3. In the page designs builder, click **Publish**.