SharePoint 2010 : Create a Subsite (part 1) - Create a Subsite with Microsoft Silverlight Installed

Create a Subsite with Microsoft Silverlight Installed

If you have Microsoft Silverlight installed, when the Create dialog opens, you can filter it to show only site templates, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. The Create dialog, filtered to show only sites.

In this dialog you can choose the kind of site you want to create from the list of available templates (which may be different from site to site). Choose the template you want from the middle section of the dialog, and on the right side, type the title for the new site. The title is displayed on the top of the site and in the navigation links pointing to the site. You can change this title at any time from the site settings.

Next, choose and type the URL name for the site. This name determines how the link to the site will look. It is recommended that you consider this name carefully because, although it can be changed after the site is created, if it changes, shortcuts that your users have created and links that point to that site break (without considerable work by the SharePoint administrator). Keep this text as short as possible, and you shouldn’t use spaces and special characters in the URL name of a site.

Choose the template you want, and then click the More Options button. In the dialog that appears, in addition to the title and the URL name, you can also specify the description for the site (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. The Create dialog, showing more options for creating a site.

This information is normally displayed under the site’s title or in the site’s home page (depending on the design of the site) and can also be changed at any time. Next, in the dialog, choose options in the Permissions section (refer to Figure 2). You can define whether the site will have the same permission set as its parent site (the site you are currently on) or unique permissions. If you are happy with the new site having the same permissions as the current site, you can leave the default setting, Use Same Permissions as Parent Site. If you choose Use Unique Permissions, you must set permissions on the site after it has been created. You can modify the permissions of the site at any time.

Finally, choose in the Navigation Inheritance section whether the site should have the same top navigation bar as the parent site or whether it should have a navigation bar of its own. This section lets you create subsites that look either like part of the top site or like separate sites altogether.