Kentico comes pre-installed with starter sites that include sample document types, templates, and layouts. These items exist to give you a starting point and demonstrate features of Kentico. In most cases, when building a custom site, you will want to install Kentico without these extraneous items. Having only items that pertain to your site in the CMS will make for a better user experience for your CMS Desk and Site Manager users. I will walk you through the installation process, highlighting the sections in which you can choose to minimize the items that will be installed on your site. This is not a full guide to cover all installation options, for a complete guide refer to the installation section in the Kentico Developers Guide (http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?installation_overview.htm).
Kentico CMS Web Installer
To start, launch the Kentico CMS Web Installer from your start menu.
Select which version of the .Net framework you would like to use.
Select a target location (I'm choosing "I want to use built-in web server in Visual Studio 2010").
Choose a location to install the web files.
On Step 3 for the installation type you will want to choose "Custom installation".

Under the "Web templates" section uncheck everything except Blank site. By doing this, the installation files for the starter sites will not be put into your web directory.

Click "Next" and the files will be installed to the directory you selected earlier.
This is optional, but the next thing I do is delete favicon.ico and WebProject.sln from the web directory, create a new solution for my project, and add the web site to my solution.

New Site Wizard
After you have the solution open, run the web site.
Put in SQL Server credentials.
Choose to create a new database or use an existing database.
On Step 5 - Starter Site choose "Continue to the New site wizard" and click "Next".

In the New site wizard Step 1 choose "Use web site template" and click "Next".

In the New site wizard Step 2 choose "Blank Site" and click "Next".

In the New site wizard Step 3 enter your site name, site code name, and domain name then click "Next".
In the New site wizard Step 4 you will be presented with the option to choose which objects will be imported into your site. Here is where you can choose to remove the objects that you do not want installed in your site. The first thing we want to remove is located in Global object > Administration > Users. Uncheck "Andrew Jones".

The next thing to remove is the sample style sheets. Go to Global objects > Development > CSS stylesheets and select "None". We will be building our own style sheets so there is no need to import these.

Now we want to get rid of our unwanted document types. Go to Global objects > Development > Document types. You can uncheck the following document types without losing any functionality:
- Article
- Cell phone
- FAQ
- Job opening
- Knowledge base article
- Laptop
- Office
- PDA
- Press release
- Simple article

We will be making our own layouts so let's get rid of those too. Go to Global object > Development > Page layouts and select "None".

We are making our own page templates as well. Go to Global object > Development > Page templates and select "None".

Click "Next" to import the objects and create the site.
After the import is complete click "Finish".
Now navigate to Site Manager > Development > Page templates. Here you will find empty folders for all of the page templates that we did not import. You can delete all of the folders that are empty.
Now you have a clean empty site to start development.