Sub Web

[rick]

We are on a Win 2003 server and we have many directories and sub directories
on the server. One of our IT guys is now telling us that we need to make
these directories into sub-webs.

1. What is a sub web?

2. What additional features are available through Front Page after
designating a directory as a sub web?

Thanks

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

We are on a Win 2003 server and we have many directories
and sub directories on the server. One of our IT guys is
now telling us that we need to make these directories
into sub-webs.

1. What is a sub web?

It's a folder tree within a Web site that you decide
to treat as if it were a separate site.

2. What additional features are available through Front
Page after designating a directory as a sub web?

In one sense, none, because subwebs and root webs have all
the same features available.

But in another sense, when a site gets too large, it gets
hard for one person to keep track of all the content, and
it gets hard for the server to run processes.

Subwebs help you manage content because you can place each
independent body of content in its own subweb, give each
subweb different permissions, and then assign the subwebs
to different people for maintenance. Also, you can apply
site-wide operations to the subweb only. So if you have
separate subwebs for animals, vegetables, and minerals,
you could apply a new Theme to the animals subweb only.

Operations like publishing and Recalculate Hyperlinks can
take a long time on large web sites. It's much more
efficient to break a large site into multiple subwebs, and
then just publish or recalc them one at a time.

The primary difficulty with breaking up large sites is
that each subweb will requires its own images folder, its
own database connections, its own Navigation view, and so
forth. You'll probably have to build these manually after
you create the subwebs.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Lesley]

A sub web another web site within your web - it is really
like a separate directory in your web. It is useful for
organizing your web, and it also lets you establish some
security because you can set a password so that only
authorized users can access the pages within the subweb.

I don't know why your IT people say you must do it, but
hopefully they can explain their rationale. Having said
that, unless there's a technical policy that they feel
you need to follow, if you have set up logical
directories in your web, you should be OK. I assume that
it's working OK as you have it set up???

If you must do it, the help in Frontpage is pretty good
on this topic.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Subweb are only relevant under FP and a FP or WSS extended site
- they are free standing webs with a web (subsites)
- they must start at the root web and can be nested
- they allow unique permissions and web specific content (parameters, navigation, shared borders, search indexes, etc)
- the speed up publishing / processing of a large web

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=292625



| We are on a Win 2003 server and we have many directories and sub directories
| on the server. One of our IT guys is now telling us that we need to make
| these directories into sub-webs.
|
| 1. What is a sub web?
|
| 2. What additional features are available through Front Page after
| designating a directory as a sub web?
|
| Thanks
|
|

 

[rick]

Thanks everyone for the information.

Is there anyway to create a subweb outside of having to do it through Front
Page or Visual Studio?

What is a WSS extended site?

Subweb are only relevant under FP and a FP or WSS extended site
- they are free standing webs with a web (subsites)
- they must start at the root web and can be nested
- they allow unique permissions and web specific content (parameters,

navigation, shared borders, search indexes, etc)

 

[Jim Buyens]

Thanks everyone for the information.

Is there anyway to create a subweb outside of having to do it through Front
Page or Visual Studio?

No. However, a subweb had no meaning outside of Front Page or Visual
Studio (and Visual Studio calls them projects).

What is a WSS extended site?

It's a site that runs Windows SharePoint Services, which is a portal
solution that comes with Windows Server 2003.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
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