SharePoint 2010 Blank Site Tutorial

Learn how to create a New Blank SharePoint Site

A SharePoint 2010 Blank Site can be used and customized to meet your business requirements. It's a bare bones site. Watch this video to learn how to easily create a new SharePoint 2010 Blank Site.

1. Click Site Actions
2. Click New Site
3. Assign a Title
4. In the Template Selection section select Blank Site
5. Click Create
6. After you click Create you will be taken to your new blank site

Learn how to create a blog site in SharePoint 2010

Use a SharePoint 2010 Blog Site to easily create a full-featured blog that includes necessary components to enhance collaboration, share knowledge, and publish news and updates. This video demonstrates the process for easily creating a new SharePoint 2010 blog site.

1. Click Site Actions
2. Click New Site
3. Assign a Title (required)
4. Complete the URL to the new site
5. In the Template Selection section highlight the blog template
6. Click Create
7. After you click Create you will be taken to your new blog site

Learn how to create a meeting site in SharePoint 2010

A SharePoint 2010 Meeting Site is a site to use to help plan your next meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to easily create a new SharePoint 2010 Meeting Site.

1. Click Site Actions
2. Click New Site
3. Assign a Title (required)
4. Assign a description (optional)
5. Complete the URL to the new site
6. In the Template Selection section select the Meetings tab
7. Select the meetings template you want to use
8. Click Create
9. After you click Create you will be taken to your new meeting site

Learn how to create a Site Collection in SharePoint 2010

A SharePoint 2010 Site Collection can be viewed as a silo to isolate content from other site collections for security, logical, or any criteria you determine. Site Collections are containers for a collection of web sites. Use a Site Collection for security reasons, sandboxed solutions, or simply to organize your SharePoint content.

1. From Central Administration, click Create site collections
2. Assign a Title (required)
3. Assign a description (optional)
4. Complete the URL to the new site
5. Assign a Site Collection Administrator
6. Click OK

Learn how to create a Team Site in SharePoint 2010

A SharePoint 2010 team site is a site a team can use to organize, author and share information. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to create a new SharePoint 2010 Team Site.

1. Click Site Actions
2. Click New Site
3. Assign a Title (required)
4. Assign a description (optional)
5. Complete the URL to the new team site
6. The Template Selection option will default to Team Site, leave Team Site selected
7. Click Create
8. After you click Create you will be taken to your new Team site

Learn how to delete a Site Collection in SharePoint 2010

Sometimes you need to delete a SharePoint 2010 Site Collection. For example, you create separate site collections for specific projects or meetings. When these are completed, it may be unnecessary to maintain the information so to manage the database size, you may elect to delete the site collection.

1. From Central Administration click Application Management
2. Click Delete a Collection
3. In the Site Collection drop drown, select Change Site Collection
4. Highlight the name of the Site Collection you want deleted
5. Click OK
6. Click Delete

Learn how to track site visitors in SharePoint 2010

It's a good practice to periodically check a SharePoint 2010's site collection usage and compare it against quotas, capacity limits, or SharePoint best practices. Checking the site usage requires access to Central Administration. This video illustrates how to check the usage of a SharePoint 2010 Site Collection.

1. From Central Administration click Application Management
2. Click Configure Quotas and Locks
3. In the Site Collection drop drown, select Change Site Collection
4. Select the Site Collection you want to check site usage for
5. View current storage used in the Site Quota Information area

References:-
http://www.fpweb.net/sharepoint-2010/tutorials/