Changing Portal Site Properties and Site Creation Settings

You can change the portal site properties and the site creation settings.

The following character limitations apply:

• Portal site name   The portal site name is limited to 80 Unicode characters.

  The portal site name can consist of all alphanumeric characters except for the following: \ / : * ? " < > |

• Portal site description   The portal site description is limited to 200 Unicode characters.

  The portal site description can consist of all alphanumeric characters, as well as the following: # % * + \ | " ? $ @ [ ] { } ⌂

• Portal site logo   The URL for the portal site logo is limited to 256 ASCII characters.

  The URL for the portal site logo can consist of all alphanumeric characters except for the following: # % * + \ | " ? > < $ @ [ ] { } ⌂

  The following file formats are supported for the graphics file: .gif, .bmp, .jpg, and .png. TIFF files are not supported.

• Location for creating SharePoint sites   The URL for creating sites from the Sites Directory is limited to 2,048 ASCII characters. In addition, no component of the URL, such as the virtual directory or virtual server, can exceed 128 characters.

  The URL must end with /_layouts/language/scsignup.aspx.

Change portal site properties and site creation settings

1. On the Site Settings page, in the General Settings section, click Change portal site properties and SharePoint site creation settings.
2. On the Change Portal Site Properties and SharePoint Site Creation Settings page, in the Portal Site Name and Description section, do the following:
   1. In the Name box, type the name of the portal site.

      The name appears on the home page of the portal site.

   2. In the Description box, type a description for the portal site.
3. In the Custom Portal Site Logo section, in the Location of logo file box, type the location of the graphics file that contains the custom logo to display on each portal site page.

   If the file location is a local relative path (for example, /_layouts/1033/logo.gif), you must copy the graphics file to that location on each front-end Web server.

4. If you want to specify the URL from which users create sites, in the Location for Creating SharePoint Sites section, type the URL in the URL box.

   If you do not type a URL in this box, users will create sites from the default site creation page for this portal site.

   The default URL for team site creation is http://server_name/_layouts/language/scsignup.aspx. If you have previously typed an entry in the URL box and want to return to the default, leave the URL box blank.

5. In the Custom Cascading Style Sheet section, in the Location of cascading style sheet file box, type the location of the cascading style sheet file that you want to use for this portal site.

   If the file location is a local relative path (for example, /_layouts/1033/blue.css), you must copy the cascading style sheet file to that location on each front-end Web server.

   For better performance, it is recommended that you copy the file to the _layouts folder on each front-end Web server.

6. Click OK.