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The primary purpose of SharePoint is to provide websites to members of an organization or employees of a company. When you create a website, you select which type of template you want to use to create the site. The dialog box shown in Figure 1-9 shows the different templates available.

FIGURE 1-9: The dialog box used to select a website template when creating a SharePoint site.

The templates you have available depend on where you are creating your SharePoint site and what features have been activated for your SharePoint environment. For example, in SharePoint Online, a tab for Duet Enterprise appears, and if the publishing feature is active, you will see Publishing. If you are looking for a template that doesn’t appear in the list of templates, you will need to figure out which SharePoint feature makes the template available. SharePoint features are explored in more detail in Chapter 18. In general, Microsoft is moving to simplify SharePoint. One way it is doing this is by making it easy to create a Team or Communication site, which means you would need to hunt a bit to find the other templates. (We cover this in Chapter 18.)

The template tells SharePoint which features and functionality should be included on the site. Keep in mind that you can always add more features and add and remove features as you decide to make your site more specific for your needs.

One of the most common SharePoint site templates is called the Team site template (the template you used at the beginning of this chapter). The Team site template includes features such as a discussion board, a library to store documents, and a calendar. In fact, many books simply talk about the Team site template and call that SharePoint. As you learn in this book, the Team site template is very important, but it is just another SharePoint website template. Part 3 explores building and customizing a site based on the Team site template.