To create a Site or a Sub Site, click on Site Actions | New Site.
You will be presented with a series of Site templates, each of which has a slightly different purpose, but they all have the common Team Site functionality of lists and libraries:
The following table is a description of each site template:
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Template Name |
Description |
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Assets Web Database |
An assets database to keep track of assets, including asset details and owners. |
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Basic Meeting Workspace |
A site on which you can plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents. |
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Basic Search Center |
A site that provides the search functionality. The site includes pages for search results and advanced searches. |
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Blank Meeting Workspace |
A blank meeting site that you can customize based on your requirements. |
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Blank Site |
A blank site that you can customize based on your requirements. |
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Blog |
A site on which a person or team can post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on. |
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Business Intelligence Center |
A site for presenting business intelligence data. It provides document libraries for storing documents, images, data connections, and dashboard Web Parts. It also provides lists for linking content from PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. |
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Charitable Contributions Web Database |
A database to track information about fundraising campaigns, including donations made by contributors, campaign-related events, and pending tasks. |
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Contacts Web Database |
A contacts database to manage information about people that your team works with, such as customers and partners. |
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Decision Meeting Workspace |
A site on which you can track status or make decisions at meetings. It provides lists to create tasks, store documents, and record decisions. |
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Document Center |
A site on which you can centrally manage documents in your enterprise. |
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Document Workspace |
A site on which colleagues can work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a link list to point to resources that are related to the document. |
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Enterprise Search Center |
A site that provides the search functionality. The welcome page includes a search box that has two tabs: one for general searches and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types. |
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Enterprise Wiki |
A site on which you can publish knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, for discussions, and for managing projects. |
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FAST Search Center |
A site for delivering the FAST search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types. |
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Group Work Site |
This template provides a groupware solution that teams can use to create, organize, and share information. It includes the Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the document library, and the other basic lists. |
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Issues Web Database |
An issues database to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish. |
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Microsoft Project Site |
A site that supports team collaboration on projects. This site includes Project Documents, Project Issues, Project Risks, and Project Deliverables lists that might be linked to tasks in Microsoft Project Server 2010. |
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Multipage Meeting Workspace |
A site on which you can plan a meeting and capture the meeting's decisions and other results. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees. It also provides two blank pages that you can customize based on your requirements. |
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My Site Host |
A site that hosts personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template has to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application. This template is available only at the site collection level. |
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Personalization Site |
A site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection to My Site. It includes Web Parts that are specific to personalization and navigation that is optimized for My Site sites. This template is available only at the site level. |
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PowerPoint Broadcast Center |
A site for hosting Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 broadcasts. Presenters can connect to the site and create a link for remote viewers to watch a slideshow in a web browser. |
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Projects Web Database |
A project-tracking database to track multiple projects, and assign tasks to different people. |
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Publishing Portal |
A starter site hierarchy that you can use for an Internet site or a large intranet portal. You can use distinctive branding to customize this site. It includes a home page, a sample press releases site, a Search Center, and a logon page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish the web pages by using approval workflows. This site enables content approval workflows, by default, for a more formal and controlled publishing process. It also restricts the rights of anonymous users so that they can see only content pages, and they cannot see SharePoint Server 2010 application pages. This template is available only at the site collection level. |
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Publishing Site |
A blank site for expanding your website and quickly publishing web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. This site includes document and image libraries for storing web publishing assets. |
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Publishing Site with Workflow |
A site for publishing web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing web publishing assets. By default, only sites that have this template can be created under this site. This template is available only at the site level when the Publishing Portal template is used to create the top-level site. |
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Records Center |
A site that is designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also enables you to manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. |
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Social Meeting Workspace |
A site on which you can plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event. |
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Team Site |
A site on which a team can organize, author, and share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions. |
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Visio Process Repository |
A site on which teams can view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a versioned document library for storing process diagrams, and lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions. |
For further information on team sites, visit the following site: http://www.shareesblog.com/?p=601.
Tip
Because a Site collection can have so many Sites, the Site templates are categorized and can be filtered.
In the following screenshot, the Collaboration category on the left-hand side navigation panel has been selected:
Tip
Unless there is a specific piece of functionality that is required, such as Visio importing, we recommend the Team Site for a selected template as this Site template has the basic list and library elements already configured, such as Shared Documents, Tasks, and Calendar list.
Once a Site is selected, type in the Site name and URL, and the Site will be created.
Tip
Try to use relevant names to the title of a site. Although name and description can be changed at a later date, the URL remains the same, and this can be confusing to a user.
As seen in the preceding screenshot, you can select More Options to use the same permissions for the new site as the parent site. By default, this feature is set to inherit the permissions.
There is also the option for whether the Site will display the top navigational links from the parent site on this newly created Site. By default, this is selected as No.
Once a Site is created, the user will be automatically directed to the newly created Site. The following screenshot shows a standard, newly created Site using the Team Site template:
