Creating a Custom Page Layout in SharePoint 2013

To Create a Custom Page Layout in SharePoint 2013 do the following steps:

1. Create Content Type:
   
   1. From Site Settings select Site Content types
      
   2. Press button Create to create Content Type 
      Select parent content type from: Publishing Content Types
      Parent Content Type: Page  Layout
   3. Add the following fields to the content type:
      • LargeHeadline – Single line of text
      • RightHandBlurb – Multiple lines of text
      • LeftLinkList – Full HTML
      • LeftColumnTitle – Single line of text
      • LeftColumnText – Full HTML
      • RightColumnText – Full HTML
2. Creating a Page Layout:
   1. Go to the Design Manager
   2. Edit Page Layouts
   3. Create a page layout
   
3. Publishing Your Page Layout
   To publish your page layout, go to Site Settings –> Master pages and page layouts. 
   To publish your layout, click on the HTML file and then Publish this will reflect also in aspx:
   
   
   
   
4. Creating a Page:
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Now we can publish our page.
   
6. Customizing Page Layouts. There are two ways to grab the file: 
   1. Go to Design Manager –>3. Upload Design Files and map a network drive to your master page directory.
   2. Go to Site Settings –> Master pages and page layouts and you can download your file.
   3. Moving the snippets provided by SharePoint 2013 into the appropriate spots,  to customize layout page.