> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.uplifter-curling.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What are the Classic Club template and the modern templates?

> Website → Templates offers four layouts — Classic Club, Open Ice, Editorial, Community Board. A template changes how pages are arranged and drawn, never what is on them, and you can go back one step.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * "Four ways to lay out your site. A template changes how your pages are arranged and drawn — never what is on them. Your text, pictures, menu, logo and brand colour stay put when you switch."
  * A site imported from CCM is on **Classic Club**. "Sizes measured from your old CCM site are kept aside and come back if you return to Classic Club."
  * **Back to previous template** restores the look you had before your last switch — one step.
</Note>

## The four

| Template | In its own words |
| - | - |
| **Classic Club** | "The traditional club-website layout — what a site imported from CCM lands on. Logo over the menu, a right-hand column, condensed type with a short rule under headings." |
| **Open Ice** | "Big and open: a full-width photo or colour under a header that floats until you scroll, one wide column, no sidebar, large type and rounded tiles." |
| **Editorial** | "A masthead over a small-caps menu, your sidebar on the left, a comfortable reading width, serif headings on warm paper." |
| **Community Board** | "Compact and busy in a good way: content in white boxes on a warm page, a boxed sidebar on the right for sign-in, events and sponsors, tighter type." |

## Switching

<Steps>
  <Step title="Preview">
    **Website → Templates → Preview** shows your own site under the template — "Trying a template", with **Template to try**, **Apply** and **Exit preview**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Apply">
    The confirmation reads: "Your pages, text, pictures, menu, logo and brand colour stay exactly as they are. Colours, fonts, header arrangement, sidebar and sizes switch to this template's. You can go back one step afterwards." Press **Apply template**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Go back if you want">
    **Back to previous template** — "Restores the look you had before your last switch, including any sizes measured from your old site." Only the last switch is remembered.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Kept on every switch: "pages and their text and pictures, menu, logo, favicon, brand colour, contact details, social links, sponsors, footer wording, events and programs." Your sidebar modules are kept even when a template hides the rail, so switching back brings them back. Nothing measured off the old site follows you onto a modern template — no CSS moves between templates.

## A brand-new club

With no home page yet, **Kick off your website**: "Pick a template and we will draft one from your club's own details — name, location, contact, what is coming up, your sponsors — for you to edit and publish." Then **Create home page and apply**.

**Related:** [What does my website look like after the import?](/ccm/your-migration/your-website-after-import) · [What is the "From your CCM import" checklist?](/ccm/your-migration/import-checklist)


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