# Check in: Unit 4 - Layouts

> Tutorial: Build your first Astro blog —
Use Astro layouts to share common elements and styles across your pages and posts

Now that you can build with components, it’s time to create some custom layouts!

## Looking ahead

[Section titled “Looking ahead”](#looking-ahead)

In this unit, you’ll build layouts to share common elements and styles across your pages and blog posts.

To do this, you will:

* Create reusable layout components
* Pass content to your layouts with `<slot />`
* Pass data from Markdown frontmatter to your layouts
* Nest multiple layouts

## Checklist

[Section titled “Checklist”](#checklist)

* I am ready to take my page design to the next level with layouts!