Appendix B. Creating your first site
In chapter 1, I introduced you to the steps for creating your first site. I covered it at a high level, but I wanted to provide you with the detailed steps in case you’re interested in following along. To do this I assume you have a SharePoint environment readily available. If you don’t, you should first work through appendix A, which covers the steps for creating a development/test environment.
In this section, I’m going to discuss two options for creating a site. First, you’ll create a site using the Blank Site template; the second option creates a site using the Publishing Site template. The latter is available only for users who have SharePoint Server.
Select New Site under the Site Actions menu and this will take you to the New SharePoint Site creation page. If you’re working with SharePoint Foundation, select Advanced Options, which will display the site creation page with the following options.
Note
If you’re running SharePoint Server and it’s a migrated SharePoint Server 2007 environment, you’ll still see the site creation page with the options listed here if you haven’t undertaken a visual upgrade.