Building upon the power of the repositories previously discussed (lists and libraries), SharePoint 2010 provides a powerful framework of sites and site collections to manage these repositories and provides additional management tools. The sites and site collections enable IT to build a framework that provides working spaces for departments, groups, teams, programs, divisions, offices, and any other type of business grouping. These sites can be branded with appropriate logos and color schemes and have web parts added to .aspx pages that perform many tasks, from simply displaying rich text, graphics, and charts to stock tickers, information about the weather, or data pulled directly from corporate databases.
Site collections are collections of sites that can be managed as a unit.
A wide range of templates are available that make it quick and easy to create functionally specific site collections, such as the following:
· Team Site
· Document Workspace
· Blog
· Meeting Workspace
· Document Center
· Records Center
· Business Intelligence Center
· Publishing Portal
· Enterprise Wiki
For the sites created within the site collection, many other templates are available, including the following:
· Assets Web Database
· Basic Meeting Workspace
· Blog
· Contacts Web Database
· Document Center
· Enterprise Search Center
· Enterprise Wiki
· FAST Search Center
· Group Work Site
· Issues Web Database
· Projects Web Database
· Publishing Site with Workflow
· Records Center
· Team Site
· Visio Process Repository
