Create a site and a page

This is part two of the getting started walkthrough series. Before you can complete the steps here, you must have created your first project and environment.

This topic explains how to use the XM Cloud interface to create the first site and page.

To create your site and page:

  1. If you're still in the Deploy app, after the first project creation and deployment are complete, click Go to XM Cloud to open the XM Cloud Sites tab in a new browser tab. Alternatively, you can navigate directly to https://xmapps.sitecorecloud.io/.

  2. Click Create > Site.

  3. Choose the empty site template and click Next step.

  4. Name the site XMC Getting Started, and, optionally, enter a description.

  5. Assuming there are no existing collections, enter the name for a collection to which this site belongs. Collections help organize your sites according to a theme.

    Note

    A headless module with the same name as the collection is created automatically when you create a new collection. You'll use this module when you build the first component.

  6. Choose the languages your site will support, and the default language.

  7. Click Create site. Wait up to two minutes until the site is created. When it's available, click the newly created site tile to open the page builder.

  8. In the left-hand pane, click to find the list of components available in your environment. Locate the Page Content component and drag it onto the plus sign in the middle of the page.

    The Page Content component in Pages

  9. In the textbox that appears, enter Hello world - inbuilt component. Your changes are saved automatically.

You've finished creating your first XM Cloud site with a page. Now, you can move to the next step to set up your local development environment.

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