About creating a Web site
A Web site is a group of related Web pages that is hosted by an HTTP server on the World Wide Web. Most Web sites provide a home page to site visitors as a starting point. The home page is interconnected with other pages by using hyperlinks and a navigational structure.
You can create a Web site that is either disk-based or server-based. A disk-based Web site is one that is hosted on a local computer. A server-based Web site is hosted by a Web server, such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), or a virtual server network.
To help you create a Web site more quickly, you can use the Microsoft FrontPage templates and wizards. When you use one of these tools, FrontPage does most of the structural work for you, leaving you free to concentrate on the content of the site. You can use templates and wizards to help you create anything from a bare bones Web page to a complex, multi-page, interactive Web site.
The basic steps for creating a FrontPage Web site, include the following:
- Obtain a Web site hosting account or URL from a hosting service, such as an Internet service provider (ISP) or a Web Presence Provider (WPP).
- Create your Web site structure using the templates and wizards.
- Add your own personalized content.
- Publish your Web site to the public on the World Wide Web.
With administrator permissions, a Web site hosting account, and connectivity to a server running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you can create a SharePoint site and then customize it using Microsoft FrontPage.
A Web site can contain one or more subsites. A subsite is a Web site that is nested inside another Web site. A Web site that contains subsites is called a top-level site. If you think of a Web site as a directory containing a set of folders, a subsite is a subfolder containing a stand-alone Web site.
Subsites have independent administration, authoring, and browsing permissions. Therefore, you can display restricted information or information that is pertinent to only one group of site visitors on a subsite.
You can convert folders under a top-level Web site to subsites. Likewise, you can convert a subsite to a subfolder. However, many of the Web site settings can be lost during this process, including, but not limited to hyperlinks in navigation bars and tasks associated with these pages. These features are lost because the navigation structure and tasks are stored per Web site. Additionally, the larger the contents of the Web site, the longer it takes to convert the Web site to a subfolder or a subfolder to a Web site.