Templates: start from a site and make it yours
A template is a finished site you can start from instead of a blank brief. Pick one, give Briks your business's details, and every page is rewritten for your business before it is published. This page covers browsing and previewing templates, making one yours, saving your own sites as templates and making one public for others.
Where to find templates
Templates are in two places, and they lead to the same steps.
- The [templates gallery](/templates) on briks.dev, open to anyone. Filter by Websites or Apps, pick an industry or search for a business or a page, like bakery or booking. Each template has a page of its own with pictures, What's included, Who it suits, a Preview button and Use this template.
- Templates in the studio's sidebar. It has three sections: your workspace's own templates, By Briks Team and Community Templates. Each card shows a picture of the first screen, the name, who made it and when, what it is for, its rating and a Use template button. Once the workspace has templates of its own, Home shows up to four of them under Start from a template, with All templates beside it.
Preview a template
On a template's page on briks.dev, Preview opens the template as a real, working site in a new tab, at its own address on briks.live. Click around it as a visitor would: open the menu, try it on your phone, read the inner pages. What you see is what you start from, before your details go in.
Start a project from a template
Choose Use this template
Where: briks.dev template page
If you are signed out, you sign up or sign in first. Either way you land on Templates in the studio with that template's steps already open. In the studio you can start the same way with Use template on any card.
Name the project
Where: New project from
The first window, New project from and the template's name, asks for a Project name. If you belong to several workspaces, pick one under Workspace. Choose Next.
Tell Briks about your business
Where: Make it yours
Only Business name is needed. The rest is optional: What it does, Email, Phone, Address, Links (separate them with commas) and Anything else. A social profile you do not give is taken off the site.
Decide about pictures
Where: Make it yours
Under Pictures, Keep these leaves them as they are. Fit my business replaces the pictures that show the other business's own things with ones that suit yours.
Start it
Where: Make it yours
Choose Make it mine. Or choose Copy it as it is to take the template unchanged and make it yours later. The new project opens in the studio and is published as a preview at its own address.
Making it yours rewrites the words, contact details, names and links of the business the template was made for. The layout, sections and look stay as they are. On a workspace's own templates, the first window offers Create project (a copy as it is) and Make it yours first.
Copied a template as it is and now want it to be yours? While the site still shows the original business's details, the studio shows a note above the chat, "This site still shows the details of the business it was made from", with a Make it yours button that opens the same form.
Business name:
Tidy Paws Grooming. What it does:Dog grooming and nail trims in Canton, by appointment. Email, phone and address filled in, links to Instagram only, and Fit my business under Pictures.
The new site keeps the template's layout and look. Every page now names Tidy Paws, the contact details are hers, the template's Facebook link is gone because she gave only Instagram, and pictures of the old business's own things are replaced with ones that suit a groomer.
Save your own site as a template
Any published project can become a template for your workspace, so the team can start new projects from it. Owners, Admins and Editors can save one.
Choose Save as template
Where: Project settings
It is in the project's settings, or in the ••• menu on the project's row in Projects. The project has to be published first, because a template is made from the published version.
Name and describe it
Where: Save as template
Give a Template name and, if you like, a line under What it is for, such as "A one-page site for a dental practice: services, prices, booking."
Save it
Where: Templates
Choose Save template. Its card shows Saving and "Saving the version and taking its picture…". It is ready in a minute or so.
A template is frozen: later changes to the project never reach it. Owners and Admins can change its name and description with Edit details in its ••• menu, or Delete it. Projects already made from a template keep everything they were given.
Make a template public
Owners and Admins can share one of the workspace's templates with everyone on Briks.
Choose Make public
Where: Templates
Open the template's ••• menu in your workspace's section and choose Make public. The window explains what happens, including what it can earn.
Send it for review
Where: Make public
Choose Send for review. The card is tagged Waiting for review. You can pull it back with Withdraw from review.
Approved or not
Where: Templates
Once approved, it is tagged Public · Community Templates and is listed for everyone, with a page of its own and a preview on briks.dev. If it is not approved, it is tagged Not approved with the reason, and Ask again to make it public sends it back.
- Its pages, words, pictures and contact details go with it. Secrets and stored records never do.
- On community cards the maker is shown as Community, not your name or your workspace's.
- Make private takes it off the public lists at any time. Projects already made from it keep what they were given.
Ratings and what your templates earn
Anyone who started a project from a public template can rate it from 1 to 5 stars with Rate it on its card, and change their rating later. People in the template's own workspace cannot rate it. Each public card shows its average and how many have rated it, or No ratings yet.
When someone outside your workspace builds from one of your community templates, your workspace earns credits: 5 on their first paid build, and 10% of what their project spends in its first 30 days. Each reward is paid after 48 hours, up to 200 credits a month for each project made from it. A template rated under 3 stars on average by 5 or more people earns nothing while it stays there, and its card says: Not earning credits while it is rated under 3 stars on average. Earnings show on the template's card, such as Earned 12.50 credits from other people's builds, and on Billing.
Does using a template cost more than starting from a brief?
Make it mine holds 5 credits and a copy as it is holds 5, against 50 for a new project from a brief. Each is charged what the work takes.
Do domains, form messages or analytics come with a template?
No, never. A template brings the site, not its history.
Can I edit a template after saving it?
Only its name and description. To change the site in it, change the project, publish, and save a new template.