What Is a Site?

UNDERSTANDING SHAREPOINT

What is a site and what is a page?

You can use top-level Web sites and sub sites to divide site content into distinct, separately manageable sites to help you organise content.

A Web site is a group of related Web pages that is hosted by an HTTP server on the World Wide Web or on an intranet site. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. The home page is interconnected with other pages by using hyperlinks. You can use top-level sites(top-level site: A Web site at the top of the hierarchy in a site collection, from which you can manage site collection features. A top-level site can have multiple subsites.) and sub sites(subsite: A complete Web site stored in a named subdirectory of the top-level Web site. Each subsite can have administration, authoring, and browsing permissions that are independent from the top-level Web site and other subsites.) to divide site content into distinct, separately manageable sites. Top-level Web sites can have multiple sub sites, and sub sites themselves can have multiple sub sites. The entire structure of a top-level Web site and all of its sub sites is called a Web site collection(site collection: A set of Web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings. Each site collection contains a top-level site, can contain one or more subsites, and may have a shared navigation structure.).

This hierarchy enables users to have a main working site for the entire team, plus individual working sites or shared sites for side projects. Top-level Web sites and sub sites allow different levels of control over the features and settings for sites. The administrator of the Web site controls the ability to create, access, and contribute content to a Web site.

Filename: What is a site? Date Published: 09/05/2008

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