Assigning a new template to our pages

Now that we have some variety in our options, we can update some of our pages. The first thing we should do is updating the Content Elements page from our example site to use a sidebar. It's already got a content element to list the subpages that really should be in a sidebar on the left, and it has plenty of pages below it that we can play with. To change the template for the page, we can click on the pencil icon in the Page view or choose Edit page properties from the drop-down on the Content Elements page. We have already done this before when we set banner images or added resources for the menus, so should be comfortable jumping into the page properties. This time, though, we'll go to the Extended tab (like shown in the following screenshot). In the section labeled Use Template Design: we can choose Left Sidebar Template [Template] from the drop-down menu: