Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Organization of Subsites within a Single Site Collection

The organization of subsites might be dictated by existing departmental function, as shown in Figure 2.5, which shows an example of a single site collection. The root site of the site collection is denoted by the entry http://sharepointrus. The tier of sites directly below the http://sharepointrus site, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, HR, IT, and R&D are typically referred to as top-level (subsites) sites. Those sites can either inherit or disinherit permissions and other settings from the http://sharepointrus parent site, including master pages and CSS. Then the next level of sites, including Training and Projects sites, represent the subsites of each of the sites from which they ...