Key Points

• The infrastructure of a typical SharePoint team site includes the following components: document, form, and picture libraries; lists; discussion boards; surveys; and a Recycle Bin.

• A home page of a SharePoint site has two main navigation areas at the top and left of the page. The top navigation area contains the top link bar that is displayed on all pages within the site. The left navigation panel is located in the left navigation area and contains the View All Site Content link, the set of Quick Launch links, and the Recycle Bin link.

• The top navigation area typically provides navigation between the sites, while the left navigation panel provides navigation within the current site.

• Both the top link bar and Quick Launch can be customized to include the links of your choice.

• The All Site Content page that is linked from the left navigation panel displays all of the libraries, lists, discussion boards, and surveys on your site. It also provides links to the child sites and workspaces. You cannot delete the All Site Content link from the left navigation panel.

• A SharePoint site can have many subsites, the hierarchy of which, on Web servers, resembles the hierarchy of folders on file systems.

• Sites that do not have a parent site are referred to as top-level sites. Top-level sites can have multiple subsites, and these subsites can have multiple subsites, proceeding downward as many levels as you need.

• There are two navigation breadcrumbs displayed on a page: the global navigation breadcrumb, which shows the path to the current site from the top-level site, and the content navigation breadcrumb, which shows the path to the current page within the site. The first link of the content navigation breadcrumb is the same as the last link of the global navigation breadcrumb. A combination of these breadcrumbs displays the location of the current page in the overall site hierarchy.

• The home page of a typical SharePoint site contains one or more Web Parts. To assist navigation, you might consider modifying the Links Web Part.

• A Recycle Bin provides two-stage protection against accidental deletions.