Creating New Sites via the Web Interface

In SharePoint 2010—as long as you have Silverlight 2.0 or greater installed—choosing to create a New Site via Site Actions presents a Create dialog as shown in Figure 8.1, which shows a partial listing of available site templates in a SharePoint Server 2010 enterprise deployment. By default, all site templates, or types, are shown, though you can filter them on type by selecting from the categories in the left-hand menu.

Figure 8.1 Selecting a site template via the Web interface.

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Where Silverlight is not installed you see a standard site template selection page when creating new sites, as shown in Figure ...

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