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Chapter 1: Collaborating with SharePoint
Using Quick Launch links
The main SharePoint site and each subsite that you add contains its own set
of Quick Launch links (simply called the Quick Launch by the folks at
Microsoft). This group of links appears beneath the View All Site Content link
(which displays a list of all the content on the current site).
The links in the Quick Launch are arranged in categories that depend upon
the type of site you’re viewing (which, in turn, usually depends upon the type
of template that that site uses). For example, when you view a site based on
the Team Site template, the Quick Launch contains Pictures, Documents,
Lists, Discussions, Sites, and People and Groups. (Refer to Figure 1-1.) But
when you view a subsite based on the Wiki Site template, for instance, only a
single Wiki Pages category appears in the Quick Launch of this subsite.
As you add pages to your main site or subsites, SharePoint automatically
adds the name of the new page to the appropriate category (although you
can override this setting and choose not to have a link to the new page
appear in the Quick Launch). This makes it easy to visit a page on the current
site or to visit the main page of a subsite because all you have to do is click
its name in the appropriate category.
Don’t forget that the names of the categories that appear in boldface type in
the Quick Launch area of a site (such as Pictures, Documents, Lists, and Sites)
are also live hyperlinks. By clicking these category links, you display a page
that lists all of the current content in that category and also enables you to
add new content as well as edit the existing content.
Taking a quick tour of an out-of-the-box SharePoint site
Now it’s time to get some experience with navigating a typical SharePoint
site. To do so, follow along with my steps as I take you on a short tour of a
brand-new SharePoint site using the links that are available at the starting
gate, the moment I first log on to its home page:
1. Click the link attached to the title, Get Started with Windows
SharePoint Services, which appears under the Announcements
heading in the main section of the SharePoint home page. (Refer to
Figure 1-1.)
When you start a new SharePoint site, the program automatically adds
this general announcement about SharePoint and its uses in the name of
the site administrator. When you click the link that’s attached to its title,
SharePoint displays its own announcements page (see Figure 1-5) where
you edit its contents.