Creating pages

A website is a collection of webpages. The types of pages that you can create depend on the site that you have created. Most users will be familiar with Team sites within a Microsoft® SharePoint® installation. When you create a new Team site, SharePoint creates a wiki page library, named Site Pages, where webpages are stored and new pages are created. Two types of webpages can be created in the Site Pages library:

• Wiki pages. These are the default pages when a site is created from the Team site template. Wiki pages are easy to edit and are used when users need to add static text, images, tables and a small number of Web Parts.
  
  
• Web Part pages. These pages can only contain App Parts and Web Parts, and are a popular choice for creating interactive dashboards or pages that aggregate information from several content sources.
  

Web Content Management (WCM) sites, also known as publishing sites are used for public facing sites or for company portals. When you create a WCM page, known as a publishing page, they are created from page layouts. Publishing pages may be able to contain Web Parts and SharePoint App Parts; however, it depends on the page layout you have chosen for the publishing page.

Creating a wiki page →
Creating a Web Part page →
Keyboard shortcuts for common tasks on SharePoint pages →
Create and manage pages in a publishing site →