SharePoint 2010: How to Create a Website

SharePoint 2010: How to Create a Website

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This article will show you how to create a website inside of SharePoint 2010. This enables you to share internal/private information in a website setting across your organization and to give you control over what the user sees. For a plug-and-play solution, use a SharePoint Blog or Wiki instead.





Introduction

A SharePoint site is a Web site that is used for organizing various aspects of your project. An immediate benefit to using SharePoint sites is the centralization of information: if you use a SharePoint site you have a central location where you can access, work with, and collaborate on different aspects of a project. SharePoint 2010 comes with numerous site templates that are ready to be used out of the box: a template is a starting point that you can use to quickly produce a site that has the basics of what your team needs.
The article "A preview of the SharePoint Server 2010 site templates" provides you with a quick preview of the ready-to-use sites templates SharePoint 2010 comes with.

Creating a Site

To create a new site in SharePoint you have to perform the following tasks:

  1. Click "New Site" on the "Site Actions" menu.
  2. Under "All Categories", click the template you want to use to create your site or click "Blank Site" and add different components to the site.
  3. Enter a title for the site.
  4. Enter a URL for the site.
  5. Click "Create"; alternatively, you can click "More Options" to set further site creation parameters and then click "Create" to create the site.

Credits

This article was originally written by Luigi Bruno.
 

Other Languages

This article is also available in the following languages:

Italiano (it-IT)

Norwegian (nb-NO)

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