---
title:        "Tips and Tricks: Creating a \"real\" blank site"
description:  "In my presentation: \"Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine\" at the Kentico Connection I showed you how to create a really blank site. In this tip I will show you the steps I presented."
url:          https://www.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/Tips-and-Tricks-Creating-a-real-blank-site
date:         2011-05-10
category:     Configuration and editor UI
tags:         [Configuration and editor UI]
reading_time: 1
---

# Tips and Tricks: Creating a "real" blank site

> In my presentation: "Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine" at the Kentico Connection I showed you how to create a really blank site. In this tip I will show you the steps I presented.

In my presentation: "Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine" at the Kentico Connection I showed you how to create a really blank site. In this tip I will show you the steps I presented.
 
 **Step 1: In Site Manager / Sites, start the "New site wizard"**
 
 ![new_site_wizard.png](~/getContentAsset/b802fda2-49fb-4855-8ef6-9f4e7a6cbc9d/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/487c2526_new_site_wizard.png.png)
 
 **Step 2: Choose "Use web site template" and select the "Blank Site" template**
 
 ![web_site_template.png](~/getContentAsset/ab32d286-2ca7-492b-8e6e-115bada1822b/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/1bf72d4f_web_site_template.png.png)
 
 **Step 3: Fill in the sites display, code and domain name settings**
 
 ![settings.png](~/getContentAsset/eac8e58c-879e-43eb-ab85-e61c79be6f04/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/07_cache_settings.png.png)
 
 **Step 4: Adjust the global objects selection like follows:**

- Administration > Users > Deselect "Andrew Jones"
- Development > Content categories > Select "None"
- Development > CSS stylesheets > Select "None"
- Development > Document types > Select only the relevant ones (e.g. Page, News etc.)
- Development > Page templates > Select "None" (I prefer to create my templates from scratch)
- Development > Web part containers > Select "None"

![deselect.png](~/getContentAsset/fdfa05b1-d896-4f05-bdb8-2dc2c3a5c707/310c1ea5-13ca-4d75-95a0-620f51989b44/deselect.png.png)
 
 And that's it! Of course feel free to go in and tweak the object selection to your needs.
 
 *Note: Imported objects (marked with \*) cannot be removed using the "New site wizard". If you want to remove these imported objects then you will have to delete the objects within Kentico CMS.*