Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

1.1. Site Collections, Sites, and Subsites

Think of a site within SharePoint as a group of related pages, libraries, and lists that you can view using a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or several others. A department within an organization may want to have a site on the Internet to publish information about what services or products that department provides. Similarly, a site collection is a collection of sites. For example, the company internet might be a site collection consisting of individual department sites. At the site collection level, you can store common objects that all sites within it can use. For example, you might store the organization's logo at the site collection level so that all department sites can reference ...