4.1. SharePoint Site and Site Collection Overview

The concept of a website is fairly straightforward to people familiar with surfing the Web, and if you consider it for a moment, so is a site collection. If you open a web browser and go to www.microsoft.com, you'll be taken to the main page for the site. Clicking any of the links on the main page will take you to web pages that are underneath the main page. Unless Microsoft changes its main page between the time I'm writing this chapter and the time you get to read it, you should be able to look to the right side of the page and see a box called "All Microsoft Sites." That's right, Microsoft.com isn't a single, very big website but a collection of websites.

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