SXA Site Creation: Tutorial 4

In the previous post we worked on Tenant (about What is Tenant, How to use, and When to use) and now today will start creating Site under newly created Tenant
In SXA, Site is a Sitecore Item which represents to a website and that contains (Pages, Data, Partial Design, Page Design, and Partial Layout).
Under the newly created Tenant let's insert Site Item named as myfirstsite

and now follow the steps on each tab.
In the First tab (GENERAL tab) on the popup give the Site Name, Host Name and move to the second tab

Here in FEATURES tab will by default all SXA existing features will be selected, so will skip this tab (can also add or remove feature as per need) and jump to next

In the third tab, THEME will create the new theme by giving theme name and selecting checkbox

and at last on GRID tab will remain Grid as bootstrap

Now click OK and will see some automated script is getting fired and Site will be created as

It's demo time:

Open the Home item under the site as Experience editor, wait for some moment.

Now will see there is already three container (Header/Main/Footer) added, where can add available SXA renderings as needed.
on the right side can also see Toolbar Window as Accordion where all the available renderings listed which you can apply to the page container as required.
Since this is the first time so check all the available renderings.


In the next part will continue with adding rendering to the page...