Organize your web site using subwebs

A subweb is a web site nested inside another web site. The site that contains a subweb is called a root web.

Organize folders and subwebs by workgroup or permissions.

1  Northwind is the root web site

2  Human Resources is a subweb of the Northwind root web site

3  Job Postings is a subweb of Human Resources

A subweb initially inherits certain site settings (such as theme information and permissions) from its parent site (root web). Use subwebs to organize your intranet logically based on your organizational model.

Using subwebs for security

You can use subwebs to limit access for security reasons. Because each subweb can have its own set of permissions for who can author, browse, or administer it, you can set up individual subwebs with different levels of permissions and different groups of users.

For example, within the Human Resources subweb, you might have a subweb for job postings. Only recruiters could update the job postings subweb, but everyone in the company could browse it.