Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for authoring a web page template. A software code authoring tool is provided that enables authoring of source code that defines a Web site template. An improved template design and content management solution is provided that enables a user-friendly way for an author to create a web page template from a pre-existing output presentation. For instance, an authoring tool enables the author to designate what regions in a pre-existing web page are to be editable in a template created from the web page, wherein the editable regions of the template may be edited by a user interacting with an authoring tool.