Fundamental site planning (SharePoint Server 2010)

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010

This section provides information that helps IT pros plan sites that use Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features.

The effectiveness of a site or a group of sites depends on many factors, but one of the most important factors is the ability to predictably locate the site and the content that you need within the site. The structure of a site or a group of sites and the navigation inside and among sites are important for helping users find and share information and work together.

In this section:

• Sites and site collections overview (SharePoint Server 2010) describes site collections and sites, and it contains information about the site templates that are used to create sites in SharePoint Server 2010.

• Plan sites and site collections (SharePoint Server 2010) describes the process and important considerations for planning SharePoint Server 2010 sites and site collections.

• Site navigation overview (SharePoint Server 2010) provides an overview of the types of navigation that are available in a site.

• Plan site navigation (SharePoint Server 2010) helps you design the navigation for your site.

• Themes overview (SharePoint Server 2010) provides an overview of themes and how they work.

• Plan for using themes (SharePoint Server 2010) discusses how to plan for using themes across your sites, and it includes important steps to plan how to use themes for your sites.

• Plan for multilingual sites (SharePoint Server 2010) discusses how to plan for multilingual SharePoint Server 2010 sites.

• Multilingual user interface overview (SharePoint Server 2010) describes the multilingual user interface in SharePoint Server 2010.

• Plan for the multilingual user interface (SharePoint Server 2010) describes how to plan for using the multilingual user interface in your SharePoint Server 2010 site solution.