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title: "Site building tools"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover low-code site building tools for Drupal with Site Studio. Create stunning front-ends easily using our comprehensive toolkit."
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Rebranding notice!

Acquia announces rebranding of its “Acquia CMS” offering, which includes a collection of Drupal modules. “Acquia CMS” is now referred to as “Drupal Starter Kits”.

Site Studio provides low-code site building tools for creating the front-end of your website. These tools are commonly used by site builders and developers in a development environment. For detailed information, see the [Site Studio documentation](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/overview "Overview").

The following table lists the main site building tools provided by Site Studio:

**Tool**

**Description**

**Reference**

Style builder

Provides a low-code interface for creating CSS styles. You can use this tool to create styles for base html elements and custom classes.

See [Style builder](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/creating-styles-style-builder "Creating styles with the style builder").

Component builder

Provides a low-code interface for building drag and drop components. It includes the components display and the form used by content authors to add content to the component.

See [Components](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/components "Components").

Content template builder

Provides a low-code interface for building display templates for Drupal content entities such as content types, taxonomy vocabularies, and users. You can use this tool to build templates for all display modes of the content, such as full page displays and teaser displays.

See [Content templates](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/content-templates "Content templates").

Master template builder

Provides a low-code interface for building site level templates that typically contain the site header and footer.

See [Master templates](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/master-templates "Master templates").

Menu template builder

Provides a low-code interface for building navigation systems for Drupal menus. You can use this tool to create static and interactive menus.

See [Menu templates](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/menu-templates "Menu templates").

View template builder

Provides a low-code interface for building displays for Drupal views. Views are commonly used for displaying lists or grids of content or search result listings. You can use this tool to create the displays of views that include filters and pagination.

See [View templates](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/view-templates "View templates").

Color palette manager

Provides a low-code interface for managing the color palette of your site. Colors can be named and tagged so that they can be managed and updated across your site from a single interface.

See [Creating your color palette](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/creating-your-color-palette "Creating your color palette").

Font libraries manager

Provides a low-code interface for managing your site’s fonts. You can import fonts or upload them as files. You can use this tool to set up one or multiple font stacks. You can manage and update fonts across your site from a single interface.

See [Setting up font libraries and font stacks](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/set-font-libraries-and-font-stacks "Set up font libraries and font stacks").

Icon font libraries manager

Provides a low-code interface for managing the icon fonts on your site. You can import icon fonts or upload them as files. You can manage and update icon fonts across your site from a single interface.

See [Set up icon font libraries](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/set-icon-font-libraries "Set up icon font libraries").

Responsive grid manager

Provides a low-code interface for managing the grid and responsive breakpoints on your site. You can use this tool to configure up to six different breakpoints for different device widths. You can also adjust the behavior of the columns of your site and the spacing between them.

See [Configuring your responsive grid](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/configuring-your-responsive-grid-settings "Configuring your responsive grid settings").

Style guide manager and style guides

Provides a low-code interface for creating overrides for site styling that can be applied at a theme level. Style guides are commonly used on multisite applications where a single code base and Site Studio theme must have different visual styling attributes for different sites.

See [Style guide manager](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/style-guide-manager "Style guide manager").

Sync package manager

Enables developers to package Site Studio configuration for deployment. This tool must be used for deploying Site Studio configuration packages separately from Drupal standard configuration.

See [Configuration management and deployment](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/configuration-management-and-deployment "Configuration management and deployment").