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Creating a Site Hierarchy 45
CLEAN UP Close SharePoint Designer.
Creating a Site Hierarchy
A site collection consists of one or more sites. Each site is created by using as a template
a site definition or a customized site definition, both of which are commonly known as
site templates. A site collection can be created by using the browser or programmatically.
You cannot use SharePoint Designer to create a site collection. You can use SharePoint
Designer only to create child sites within a site collection.
See Also For a list of steps that a SharePoint administrator can use to create a site collection,
see Appendix C on page 503 and refer to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator’s
Companion, by Bill English, Brian Alderman, and Mark Ferraz (Microsoft Press, 2011).
Site Collection
Top-level Site
Child Site Child Site Child Site
Child Site Child Site Child Site Child Site
Child Site
Child Site
Tip The Site Content and Structure page provides a visual representation of a site collection’s
hierarchy. The Site Content and Structure page is available only on SharePoint sites created on
SharePoint Server when the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature
and the SharePoint Server Publishing site feature are activated.
Typically, in a site collection that will host a number of collaboration SharePoint sites such
as blogs, document workspaces, and meeting workspaces, the top-level site of the site
collection is based on the Team Site template. This top-level site could be the focal site
for an entire team or department. The team or department members might have only
read access to this top-level site, with a limited number of them who contribute content
to the site, and one or two who act as site collection owners. As child sites are created,
the number of team members who have access to the site decreases, and the proportion
of members who can create and update content increases.