Here are the basic steps to create a template:

Log into your site, then click on the Profile tab. Then click on Layout and Style.

You'll see a selection of pre-made templates, which you can choose if you want. But if you scroll down to the bottom of the choices, you will see where the custom tool begins. There are a number of fields where you can select graphics, or colours.

You cannot edit any of the pre-made templates, so don't plan on choosing one and then making changes. You can only start a new template from scratch.

There is a field right at the top of the tool section for your template name.  Give your new template a name, and make any changes to the various fields (watch for a future blog on explanations for those). Then you have to click on PREVIEW. I don't actually see any preview when I do this, but it might be my browser settings. You must select preview before it will let you save.

Once you have clicked on preview, then scroll back down to the top of the tool area and there should be a Save button next to where you put the name for the template. Click on save and you now have a new template.

If you want to see it in action, you need to select it for your site. Creating it doesn't automatically make it active for you. Go back to the Layout and Style screen, and scroll down to the bottom of the pre-made templates. Your new one should now be there. Select it, and scroll down farther to click on Use Selected Style.

That's it.

Read my next blog on how to edit it. There a couple extra clicks you might not expect.