Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Sites


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Chapter at a Glance

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Create new SharePoint sites, page 44. Establish site permissions, page 53. Theme SharePoint sites, page 63.

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In This Chapter, You will Learn to:

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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites and workspaces are containers for Web Parts and the Web pages that contain them, lists, and document libraries. Lists contain structured, tabular data, while document libraries contain unstructured binary documents. You can use any site as a single container for your data, or you can create as many child sites as you need to make your data easier to find and manage. You will also frequently find yourself creating sites to secure a place for a given group of people to collaborate on its contents. For example, you might create a site to manage a new team or project, collaborate on a document, or prepare for and follow-up on a meeting. As a container, sites can be used to secure their contents.

As we discussed in Chapter 2, “Navigating a SharePoint Site,” sites and workspaces are organized hierarchically within a site collection. There is always one top-level site and can optionally be one or more child sites. Typically, top-level sites are created for an entire team and therefore have many visitors (people who only read), few members (people who can create and update content), and one or two owners. But as child sites and grandchild sites are created, the total number of users typically decreases while the number of people designated as members increases.

Workspaces function just like sites except that they can be created from within Microsoft Office clients, such as Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Outlook, their expected lifetime is short relative to a site, and child sites and workspaces are not allowed. Similar to clearing off a desk to work specifically on a given project, you could create a Windows SharePoint Services workspace to work on a specific document or meeting. When the given project is completed, you would likely keep the results of the project and throw away all of the other scraps. Similarly, once you are finished with a workspace, you publish the results and throw away the container.

Site templates are used in Windows SharePoint Services as a blueprint to jump-start a new site’s usefulness by auto-generating the lists, document libraries, and Web pages, pre-populated with Web Parts, that will likely be most useful in a given situation. In this chapter, you will learn how to create a site using one of the site templates available from a default installation as well as the steps necessary to manage and administrate this site. You may want to differentiate a site by the way it is presented to the user, so you will also learn how to apply a theme to your site.

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Before you can use the practice sites provided for this chapter, you may want to install them from the book’s companion CD to their default locations. See “Using the Book’s CD” on page xix for more information. image from book

Important  

Remember to use your SharePoint site location in place of http://wideworldimporters in the following exercises.




Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3. 0 Step by Step
Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3. 0 Step by Step
ISBN: 735623635
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 201

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