I am just starting an umbraco implementation. We had hoped that we could make a handful of highly reusable templates that were mainly just layouts (full width, 2 column, etc), and let the content editors select which components to put on each page. (And in particular NOT giving editors access to the settings tab) But it appears that the putting components on each page is the template building itself. If true we either have to build out more defined templates with all of the components pre-placed on them, or give content editors the ability to edit templates. I know about grids, where they can add the elements into the grid, but that does not allow for arbitrary component placing (unless I just havent figured that out yet. In the drea scenario we could allow for both open ended placement or restricted placements (you can only place "small" components in this small part of the template, etc) Is there any way to get where we want?

Hey @OMegaliterosMalakas - I have a starter kit that shows you by example how to do all of the things you have mentioned: https://umbootstrap.com/

thanks! I will take a look!

There are a few ways you could achieve this. However, using grid you can create: - different grids that can only be used in different doctypes - which in turn can contain different areas - which in turn can restrict which features/components can be used in those areas