Creating Pages and Sites

This section provides an overview of the processes of creating pages and sites, as well as an overview of the options available for pages and sites. An administrator or power users needs Create Subsites privileges to create sites and Add and Customize Pages privileges to create pages.

The site administrator can create sites from several places. The primary tool to access is the Site Actions drop-down menu, and then click New Site.

The All Site Content page also provides a Create button, which leads to the Create page, where the Sites and Workspaces link is available, which then opens the New SharePoint Site page.

The Manage Content and Structure available from the Site Actions drop-down menu on a Publishing Site also allows the administrator to create sites, lists, or pages, as shown in Figure 21.12.

Figure 21.12. Create Site option from Site Content and Structure page.

Follow these steps to create a site from the Site Actions menu on a nonpublishing site:

1. From a nonpublishing site, access the Site Actions menu, and click New Site.
2. Enter title, description (optional), and URL information.
3. Select the Team Site template from the Collaboration tab. An example is shown in Figure 21.13.

   Figure 21.13. New SharePoint Site page.

   

4. Select Use Unique Permissions in the Permissions section.
5. In this example, select Yes to Display this site on the Quick Launch of the parent site, and Yes to Display this site on the top link bar of the parent site.
6. Select Yes to Use the top link bar from the parent site.
7. Click Create.
8. As shown in Figure 21.14, the Set Up Groups for this Site page will display. Leave the defaults, which in this example are to Use an Existing Group for Visitors (the Visitors group from the parent site), Create a New Group for Members, and Create a New Group for Owners. Click OK, and the new site will render.

   Figure 21.14. Set up groups for this site page.

   

Table 21.1 provides a list of page and site options in the different versions of SharePoint 2010.

Table 21.1. Page and Site Options in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 Standard and Enterprise