How to Create Web Site in SharePoint 2007?

What is Web Site?

A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet.
A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user's Web browser.
All publicly accessible websites are seen collectively as constituting the "World Wide Web".

Organized by function a website may be

1. a personal website
2. a commercial website
3. a government website
4. a non-profit organization website

How to Create Web Site in SharePoint 2007?

When you create a SharePoint site, it helps to understand where your site is in the hierarchy. The following three SharePoint concepts are important ones to know:

Top-level Web site The default, top-level site provided by a Web server. To open the top-level Web site, you supply the URL of the server — for example, http://My_server — without specifying a page name or subsite. Administrators go to this site to change settings for the entire site collection.

Subsite A complete Web site stored in a named subdirectory of the top-level Web site. Each subsite can have administration, authoring, and browsing permissions that are independent from the top-level Web site and other subsites. A subsite can also have subsites of its own. Because every site below the top-level site is actually a subsite, each subsite is generally called simply a site. To open a subsite, you supply the URL of the server and any subsites — for example, http://My_server/My_site — without specifying a page name.

Site collection A set of Web sites on a Web server, all of which have the same owner and share administration settings. Each site collection contains exactly one top-level Web site, and can also contain one or more subsites. There can be multiple site collections on each Web server.

Create a Top-level Web site from SharePoint Central Administration

1. Click the Start button, point to All Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

2. In the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, on the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Create site collection.

3.In the web Application section, you can change the Web Application or leave as default.

4 . In Title and Description section , Type a title and description for your new site.

5. In Web Site Address Section , Specify the URL name and URL path to create a new site, or choose to create a site at a specific path.

6. The Set the Primary & Secondary Site Collection Administrator.

7. Click Ok Button.

Now you can see the Top-level site like this.

How to create sub site within the top-level site?

We will discuss in the next article