A template is a starting point that you can use to quickly produce a site that has the basics of what your team needs. This saves you time, but it also ensures a certain level of consistency among SharePoint sites throughout your organization. SharePoint 2013 comes with numerous site templates that are ready to be used out of the box.
On the Home page of your site, click the Settings button (the small gear icon next to the name of the logged-on user). On the menu that appears, click Site Contents.
On the Site Contents page, In the Subsites section select the New Subsite link.
On the New SharePoint Site page, type a title and description for the case.
Type a URL for the site, relative to the root site.
Choose a language for your site.
Choose the Team Site template (located on the Collaboration tab).
Choose user permissions for the site.
Select navigation options for the site.
Click Create.
If you are trying to create a site from a previously saved template, you must select the Custom tab during template selection to see this template.
The Team Site template offers a good sampling of the capabilities in SharePoint 2013. As such, this template is one that you will most likely see deployed in several locations of your organization. The Team Site template includes a newsfeed, document library, and site asset library, already configured and ready for use. With these sites configured, you and your team can quickly set up and begin collaborating on your projects. After you have a team site set up, it’s good to go over where everything is located. The following list gives you a brief tour:
The Top Link bar shows the global navigation that can be inherited from parent sites and makes it possible for you to immediately jump to those other sites.
The Ribbon bar lets you click and expand the displayed items into a full ribbon bar with additional buttons and functions. In some cases, the ribbon bar is automatically expanded when you click on certain assets in SharePoint.
The site logo displays a graphic logo that represents your site. Clicking this logo anywhere on the site takes you to the Home page of the site.
The site title is the title of the site. It can be changed by the site collection owner.
The Getting Started Web Part shows a tiled menu for rapidly accessing certain maintenance functions on the site. It is intended to assist new users in accessing important site functionality.
With the Search box, users can enter queries and link to a search site associated with the current site. Searches can be scoped to the current site or the entire SharePoint farm.
The Share link makes it possible for users to share the site with other users by sending an email and adding selected users to appropriate site permission groups.
With the Follow link, users can configure the site so that it appears in their My Sites as one that they want follow.
Using the Sync link, users can synchronize the site content locally to their hard disk (for offline access).
User can click the Focus link to dismiss the title and navigation elements on the current page to “focus” on the page content.
The Documents App Part makes it possible for users to view the contents of the documents library that is automatically provisioned when the site is created. Users can also upload new documents to the library directly from the Home page.
The Newsfeed Web Part makes it possible for users to view recent postings by other users on the Home page as well as allow the current user to submit snippets of plain-text content.
