SharePoint Office Pocket Guide

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. To help produce a unified look, SharePoint includes site templates that determine the type of site members can create. SharePoint comes with eight different templates, but there are three main types that you need to worry about for now (listed 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	Work together on one or more documents. This is the template used when Word, Excel, or PowerPoint creates a shared workspace.	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; they will then use document workspaces and meeting workspaces to organize projects and meetings within the group.

Figure 1-3 shows the default sites created by the three main site templates.

Figure 1-3. Team, workspace, and meeting sites

SharePoint sites have three key navigation areas, illustrated ...