Site Collections

Site Collections 

When you first install SharePoint on a server it creates a site used to manage the entire SharePoint farm called Central Administration.

However, other than your SharePoint administrator, most users typically never interact

with Central Administration. A site can contain sub-sites and those sub-sites can contain additional subsites.

The top-level site defines the overall site collection. You may begin your interaction at this top level site or at one of the sub-sites in the site collection. A SharePoint installation can have multiple site collections. This means you can create hierarchies of sites rooted at the top level

SharePoint site in the site collection.To support SharePoint, you may need more than a single server to support the database,indexing, searching, applications, etc. All of these servers together constitute a SharePoint farm.

When SharePoint is first installed, a default site collection is automatically

created for you, rooted at http://yourmachinename

 create a new child site

Go to your top-level SharePoint site URL. My machine name is ecarter1, so my top-level SharePoint site URL is http://blessy. There you will see a page like the one in the following Figure . This is the top-level SharePoint site that is created for you when you install SharePoint.

On  the top left corner of this page there  is a Site Actions menu. This provides actions associated with the top-level SharePoint site in your default site collection. The Site Actions menu is only shown if you have the right permissions.
The following figure shows Creating a new site using the SharePoint Site Actions menu.

The Create dialog comes up as shown in the following  Figure . In this dialog, you can choose a site template to be used for the new site.

 Here we  have chosen the Blank Site template. You can then give the new site a name and a URL. For our site we chose to name it “My Child Site” and picked “mychildsite” for the URL. The final URL for the newly created child site will be http://blessy/mychildsite. Finally, click the Create button to create the new child site.The newly created child site is then opened in the browser as shown in the following Figure. 

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