WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 offer many OOTB site definitions for different types of sites. More specifically, the following are OOTB categories and the site definitions available under each category. Note that some of the site definitions are only available while creating site collections.
* - Available while creating a site collection.
** - Available while creating a sub-site but resulted in an error. Created the same as a site-collection and it worked fine.
It's kind of difficult to remember the default look & feel of an OOTB site which requires one to create a "throw-away" site just to see the look & feel. I have done it many times! This morning I spent some time and created all of the sites on my development machine and have made the screen shots available.
For some reason I got the following error while creating a sub-site of this type under a site-collection. Not sure what am I missing.
Creating the Report Center as a separate site collection worked like a charm!
Different Publishing site definitions are available depending on the context (as a site collection vs as a sub-site) in which the site is created.
While creating a site-collection, the following site definitions are available:
While creating a sub-site under a site-collection, the following site definitions are available:
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