A template is a prebuilt site all set up and ready for you to customize. Typically, templates are designed around a concept—like a band, restaurant, or design agency. They include premade pages, page elements, and content sets.

Note   You cannot switch a site’s template. But you can always build another site.

Get templates from the Market:

1. On the left, click Market.

1. In the Market choose from the templates, and when you find one you like, just click Start with this Template.

1. Next enter a Title for your site, give it a Domain (like example.site.moboom.com—if you own your own domain, add that later), and click Create Site to create your site.

Templates are more than just styles and colors—they’re prebuilt sites. That means that each template comes with different prebuilt pages and features.

For example, if you’re building a site for your food truck, then the Food Truck template is a good choice. It comes with a built in menu, schedule, and other pages that a food truck would need.

The Food Truck template comes with a built in menu, schedule, and other pages that a food truck would need.

If you’re building a site for your band, the Boom Music template is probably more like what you’re looking for. This template has a built in SoundCloud widget and tour dates on the homepage.

The Boom Music template has a SoundCloud widget and tour dates on the homepage.

When looking at a template in the Market, each preview page has a description, screenshots, and a working demo site. So don’t just go with ascetics—templates are more than that. Pick out a template that comes with the features your site needs.

To use a template you already own, create a new site:

1. Under Sites, in your Site Collection, click Create Site in the upper right.

1. Next, choose a template.

1. Then on the pop up, click Use this Template to build your site.

If you created a site with a template, there’s a good chance it came with several theme presets. Presets are additional style options that let you quickly change the look of your site. Usually presets are different color schemes

To see your presets:

1. Open your site, and then, from the menu on the left, under Theme, click Theme Presets.

1. Next, from the dropdown menu at the top, select an option, and you’ll see a preview of it on the page below.

1. If you like the preset, click Save.

Note   If your site’s already published, click Publish to see the change on your live site.

Once you've created your site, you're not stuck with the decisions that the template's designers made—you can customize the template through the style editor or by editing the CSS directly.

For more information on styling your site, see Use Design Tools.