Sites and subsites roadmap

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2017-01-24

In this article:

• Before you begin

• Determine information architecture

• Create site collections and sites

• Customize navigation

A Web site based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implements an organization's Internet presence, enterprise or divisional portal, or other specialized Web-based solution such as a financial dashboard. To implement your site's information architecture, you can create top-level sites and subsites that divide Web site content into distinct, separately navigable sites. For example, an automotive company may want to create separate sites for each vehicle model it offers.

This roadmap page provides links to Web articles, white papers, training, blog entries, and tools to help guide you in setting up the structure of your sites and subsites in Office SharePoint Server 2007. The resources presented on this page are organized in the order in which you should plan and implement your sites and subsites:

1. Determine information architecture

2. Configure site collections and sites

3. Customize navigation

Before you begin

Before you begin setting up your sites and subsites in Office SharePoint Server 2007, review the resources in the following overview sections which describe Office SharePoint Server 2007 site and subsite capabilities and the customization options available to site architects, designers, creators, and developers.

General overviews

• Plan sites and features

• Plan enterprise content storage

About information architecture

• SharePoint Information Architecture and the Information Architect (blog entry)

• Information Architecture and Management Controls in Window SharePoint Services 3.0 (blog entry)(developer)

• General reference (Windows SharePoint Services)

About site collections and sites

• Plan the structure of site collections and sites

• Plan process for creating sites (Office SharePoint Server)

• Site collections: content storage benefits and limitations (section in Plan enterprise content storage)

• Sites: content storage benefits and limitations (section in Plan enterprise content storage)

• Introduction to sites, workspaces, and pages

About navigation

• Plan site navigation (Office SharePoint Server)

• Introduction to site navigation

Determine information architecture

Information architecture is the design of an information environment that organizes sites and content so that they can be easily discovered and managed. For an enterprise-level site, such as a corporation's Internet presence site, the information architecture might be expressed by hundreds of sites containing thousands of pages. For information about implementing the information architecture for your site, see the following resources:

• Determine the information architecture of your site

• Determine sites and subsites

• Site Collections (section in Logical architecture components)

• Site Collections (section in Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment)

Create site collections and sites

In Office SharePoint Server 2007, a site collection is composed of a top-level Web site and one or more subsites. Each subsite within a site collection can also have its own subsites.

This hierarchy enables site designers or site architects to divide site content into an architecture that fits their organizational needs. For information about creating sites and subsites, see the following resources:

• Create a site collection

• Create a blank site to migrate content into

• Create sites and site collections from the Site Directory

• Tips on Site Collection Sizing (blog entry)

• Site Collection Sizing Considerations (blog entry)

• How to create a site collection in a specific content database? (blog entry)

• SharePoint Server 2007 Site Directory — Want Site Collections? (blog entry) (developer)

Customize navigation

Site navigation provides the primary interface for site users to move about the sites, subsites, and pages that compose your Internet or intranet portal site. Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes a set of customizable and extensible navigation features that help orient users of your site and enable them to move among its sites and pages. For information about techniques for customizing site and subsite navigation, see the following resources:

• Customize site navigation

• Configure and manage a shared navigation structure across sites

• Work with site content and structure

• Add a table of contents to a publishing page layout

• Add a list of summary links to a publishing page layout

• Office SharePoint Server navigation deep dive (blog entry) (developer)

• How to: Customize Navigation (developer)

Download this book

This topic is included in the following downloadable book for easier reading and printing:

• Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007

See the full list of available books at Downloadable books for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

See Also

Concepts

Page design roadmap

Other Resources

How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance