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Creating a new site - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Creating a new site
If you're watching this course, I expect that at some point you're going to be making SharePoint sites, and here's how. Now, what I'm going to show you expects two things. One, that you already have an existing site collection with at least a top level site in it, so you've got somewhere to go. And two, that you have high permission. Basically that you have the SharePoint permission called Full Control. Usually done by putting you in the owners group. Well, how do you know if you have that permission? Well, it's fairly easy. You go to your Site Actions menu and see, do I have the option called New Site? Well, if you do, things are looking good. If you don't, then you need to find whoever is your site collection administrator or your farm administrator, and in some places that's the same person, and see if you can get that permission. So I'm going to choose Site Actions > New Site. Now, when I do this, SharePoint is very concerned about exactly what site I was in when I chose that…