Sharepoint Basics

      Create a site collection

1.   On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab on the top link bar. 2.   On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Create site collection. 3.   On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, select a Web application to host the site collection from the Web Application drop-down list. 4.   In the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection. 5.   In the Web Site Address section, select a URL type (personal or sites), and then type a URL for the site collection. 6.   In the Template Selection section, select a template from the tabbed template control. 7.   In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the primary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box. 8.   Optionally, in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the secondary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box. 9.   Click Create to create the site collection.

Create a SharePoint site

1.   On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab on the top link bar. 2.   On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site collection list. 3.   On the Site Collection List page, in the URL column, click the URL for the site collection to which you want to add a site. The full URL path for the site collection appears in the URL box. 4.   Copy and paste the full URL path into your browser, and then, on the home page of the top-level site for the site collection, on the Site Actions menu, click Create. 5.   On the Create page, in the Web Pages section, click Sites and Workplaces. 6.   On the New SharePoint Site page, in the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site. 7.   In the Web Site Address section, type a URL for the site. 8.   In the Template Selection section, select a template from the tabbed template control. 9.   Either change other settings, or click Create to create the site. 10.  The new site opens.