Why use SharePoint subsites?

Why use SharePoint subsites?

The reason subsites became popular is because they solved many limitations above. Not only they allowed to organize content into logical hierarchies, both they also addressed navigation, security, and metadata inheritance.

What is web application and site collection in SharePoint?

A site collection is made up of one top-level site and all sites below it. As shown in the following figure, it is the top level of organization in a SharePoint Server web application. The number of site collections you can have in a single web application depends on the capacity of your server infrastructure.

What are subsites on SharePoint?

Any site you create in SharePoint is a subsite since it will reside under some other site in your site hierarchy. The only site that is a true site and not a subsite is the very top site of the site collection since it does not appear under any other sites.

Which is a true site and not a subsite?

The only site that is a true site and not a subsite is the very top site of the site collection since it does not appear under any other sites. So really, the only site you have in your environment is the root of your site collection (this is where you usually have an Intranet Homepage ).

How does a site collection differ from a subsite?

One key point to note is that each site collection has its unique site columns (metadata), navigation, permissions (security groups), site templates, branding, etc. Subsites, on another hand, inherit all these properties from the top-level site in a site collection.

What does a SharePoint site collection look like?

SharePoint Site Collection, just as the name implies, is a collection of SharePoint Sites. Each site collection contains a single top-level site and subsites below it. In the image above, each blue box is a separate subsite, while all of the boxes combined make up a site collection.

What’s the difference between a SharePoint site and SharePoint subsite?

The short answer is that there is no difference between a SharePoint site and a SharePoint subsite. They are the same thing. I think the confusion originates because of the fact that in SharePoint you have the two terms used interchangeably, causing you to believe that there might be a difference between the two.