Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 2. Sites and Workspaces

In this chapter, you will look at the default out-of-the-box web sites and workspaces available to you in SharePoint. You will create a team site and examine the various site templates provided by SharePoint. You will also look at over 40 templates available free of charge from Microsoft that may be useful within your SharePoint sites and as learning tools.

In Chapter 3, you will look at the structures behind the sites and learn how to add and remove features you may not require on the site. In Chapter 12, you will see how you can customize some areas of the site at a deeper level using SharePoint Designer 2007.

It is important to know that you may not have the required permissions to carry out all of the instructions in this chapter. The functionality available to you depends on the level of access you have been granted by your SharePoint Server administrator or site administrator. If you do not have permission to create the actual team site, you can request that your systems administrator do so for you. Once you have access to the site, you can continue with this chapter. Chapter 3 will examine the individual lists and libraries within the sites in greater detail, and you will get direct, hands-on experience working with these objects.

This chapter, on the other hand, is a little like the chicken and the egg in that, in order to create a team site, you will need access to a SharePoint site, but it is assumed that you need to create a site and have ...