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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services gives you convenient ways to create Web sites, including the following:
Deciding which kind of site to create depends on the intended scope and use of the site. For example, you may want to create a top-level Web site for an entire organization and separate sites under that site for each team.
If you need to create a site to help manage the development of a shared document or file, you should create a Document Workspace site. A Document Workspace site provides a document library to share the file and other files related to it, as well as lists to help track issues and team member information.
If you need a site to share information and tasks related to a meeting, create a Meeting Workspace site. With this type of site, you can develop the agenda and objectives as well as maintain a list of attendees.
If the users in your organization will need to create many top-level Web sites, you may want to use the Self-Service Site Creation tool. Using this tool is easy; it's similar to creating a subsite. If you want to control top-level Web site creation yourself, however, you can turn off the Self-Service Site Creation feature and create top-level Web sites on your users' behalf from SharePoint Central Administration. To create a top-level Web site outside of Self-Service Site Creation, you must be an administrator of the computer on which the site will reside or a member of the SharePoint Administrator group.
If you are an administrator of the server computer, or a member of the SharePoint Administrator group, you can create sites by using the Stsadm.exe command-line tool. To create a top-level Web site, use the createsite operation. To create a subsite, use the createweb operation.