Site Collection Design - Designing a Site Directory

=Site Directory =

A SharePoint Site Directory is a special type of sub-site you can create within your SharePoint site collection that lists and categorizes important sites in your collection. It includes different views for categorized sites, top sites, and a site map.

Example use: A Site Directory within your collection can help you if you want to provide site visitors with a central place to view or locate all of the sites in your site collection.

This capability is one that is often over looked, however as your collection starts to grow the need to use this feature will become more and more critical. It's a lot easier to implement your site directory at the very start, rather than try and go back and implement it retrospectively. If you wish to provide Site Directory within your collection now is the time to Identify the Taxonomy for it; namely the fields and values that users will pick from to categorize a new sub-site created within your collection.

=Next Steps= Go back to the Site Collection Design page.