Organization Best Practices

[MasterRacker]

I have a 2007 test site running with a "Main Site", a SSP Site and a My Site. I've been through a CBT that demostrates how to perform various tasks, but I haven't seen any higher lever info on site organization.

For example, I see a Main Site>Documents folder, but that appears to be intended for Infopath forms or other workflow type documents,not just regular documents.

If I want to create a collection of company-wide documents such as phone directory, policies&procedures, etc. what's the common / recommended way to do that? Following SharePoint terminology, I'm thinking I need to create a site from the main site, choosing document repository as site type. Am I on the right path or am I veering off into weeds?

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Jeff
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[MasterRacker]

OK, so my noobness is exceeded only by my lack of knowledge.

I'm slowly wading my way through this stuff. Looking at how this guy:

http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=21

set up his top level site, he used the Publishing>Collaboration Portal template. Follow a different tutorial, I used Collaboration>Team Site.

I installed using the MS Eval download and entered an Enterprise key to get all features. My copy doesn't give me the same templates however. My Publishing choices are "Publishing Site", "Publishing Site with Workflow" and "News Site" - so I still don't know how to get a Portal like the example.

(I wish I could drink at work.... )

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Jeff
[small][purple]It's never too early to begin preparing for [/purple]International Talk Like a Pirate Day
"The software I buy sucks, The software I write sucks. It's time to give up and have a beer..." - Me[/small]