
Types of SharePoint Websites
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SHAREPOINT 2010 VERSIONS
Like its predecessor, SharePoint 2010 is available as two distinct products:
SharePoint Foundation 2010
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— The new version of the free Windows SharePoint Services
version 3 (WSS)
SharePoint Server 2010
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— The new version of Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007
(MOSS)
Although SharePoint Server 2010 is more expensive than SharePoint Foundation 2010, it includes
the Publishing Features, which has several useful additions for branding projects:
The Web Content Management (WCM) functionality provides users with a robust publishing
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platform. This means that users can author pages with rich and structured content and pub-
lish the pages in a controlled way using out-of-the-box workfl ows.
SharePoint Server contains more robust options for navigation. This gives users more control
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and provides greater fl exibility than what is provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint Foundation.
SharePoint Server also enables site administrators to easily change a master page for any site,
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and all of its subsites, from a SharePoint site’s settings page.
SharePoint Server enables more fl exibility with themes, including the ...