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Essential SharePoint
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Essential SharePoint

by Jeff Webb
May 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
10h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Types of Sites

Authorized team members can create new sites in SharePoint very easily—in fact, just a few clicks in Word creates a new document workspace site almost instantly. To help impose a unified look, SharePoint includes site templates that influence the type of site created. SharePoint comes with eight different templates, but there are only three types you need to worry about for now, as shown in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1. Main types of SharePoint sites

Template

Use to

Contains these lists

Team site

Create, organize, and share information among team members. This is usually the root site for a department or project team.

Document library, Announcements, Events, Contacts, Quick links

Document workspace

Collaborate on one or more documents. This is the template used when a shared workspace is created in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Document library, Tasks, Links

Meeting workspace

Schedule and track an in-person meeting. This is the template used when Outlook creates a meeting workspace.

Objectives, Attendees, Agenda, Document library

Most groups or departments will have a team site as their main top-level site, then use document workspaces and meeting workspaces to organize projects and meetings within the group. Figure 1-7 shows the default sites created by the three main site templates.

SharePoint sites have three key navigation areas, as illustrated in Figure 1-8:

Quick launch area

Located on the left of page; links take members to content within the site. When you ...

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