SharePoint Tutorial - Team Sites

 

Team sites are small web sites that are created to store everything about a particular thing. For example a site can be created for a department in an organization like human resources. I site can be created for a particular project. A site can even be created for a meeting. Everything about the thing (department, project, meeting) like documents, lists, calendars, etc. is stored in that site.

This is how a new team site looks like .


A site can also have sub-sites. For example, the information technology department may have a site and then have sub-sites for each team in the department. One for application development, network and communications.

Creating a Site

To create a site, click the 'Site Actions' box at the top-right side of the page and click the 'Create' option.


Select the 'Sites and Workspaces' link on the following page.


On the following page you'll enter information for the site such as the title, description and the type of site.


You can choose from a variety of site templates. Each template has it's own configuration of pages, libraries and lists. The 'Blank Site' is empty and you have to add components after creating a site from it.

Click the 'Create' button and you'll create your new site based off the selected template.